Karachi Burning, Islam and Sectarianism, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam and Sectarianism

26 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com

Karachi Burning

By Najam Sethi Aug. 26, 2011 OVER 400 people have been killed in gang and party political warfare in Karachi in the last two months. No permanent end to the senseless violence is in sight because of several factors. The three- way struggle for turf and power in Karachi among the PPP, MQM and ANP overlaps with violent gang wars among the criminal drug, extortion, arms and land- grab mafias that have come to dominate the underworld of Karachi and established quid pro quo links with each of the three parties. The problem is that the PPP government is helpless to establish law and order because it cannot afford to launch any serious and sustained “clean- up” operation that targets and antagonises its provincial coalition partners whose support is needed to prop up its government in Islamabad. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndSectarianism_1.aspx?ArticleID=5328