City of lights bleeding

By Nabeel Hashmi

Gone by the days when Karachi was counted as one of the city of lights in the world for its peaceful nature and activities by the public extending to late nights but the tag should now be replaced with city of bloodshed due to the recent target killing events which has inculcated fear among the citizens.
The ongoing wave of assassination of innocent people just for the sake of proving dominance in the city has led to ethnic war between pakhtoons and mauhajirs which started as a political war between MQM and ANP and one should be wondering where this massacre and brutality would lead us?
Citizens have been traumatized and a person does not know whether he will be able to return home alive when he goes out for work. Family members have to suffer mental stress praying for their beloved ones to reach home safely because workers have to stay in their offices when successive events of riots and violence start.
I also had the privilege to experience this when I had to remain in the office for three days and two nights when an MPA of MQM, Raza Haider was killed and what followed was hard to believe. Within 48 hours approximately 87 people were killed, 250 were injured and hundreds of public and private vehicles were torched in the so called presence of Incompetent Police and Rangers who flew from the spot of the incidents and we depend on them to safeguard our lives, property and belongings.
Shooting, burning and slaughtering incidents in the industrial hub of Pakistan shows that humanity doesn’t exist among criminal who called themselves Muslims and does not even care about the Holy month of Ramadan. Furthermore, successive strikes have also affected the economy of the country.
Major political parties or we can say supreme political party in the city should realize that this metropolis belong to people of Pakistan. They must accept the fact that they are no more the whole soul King of Karachi, now there is another stakeholder in this part of the country and they should be given their due rights. If they can’t tolerate threat to their supremacy then they should come face to face with the leaders of their coalition partners.
The killing of innocent should be condemned but then again there is no use of raising our voices, as everybody knows this is a tradition of our country that whoever raises his or her voices is laid to rest. We can never prosper as a nation until and unless people change their mentality. They should respect the differences and accept the share of others in their domain.