A Doctor's Disclosures Re MQM Role
May 12, 2007

The carnage on the streets of Karachi yesterday has profoundly shocked this city. Yesterday was a return to the days of mayhem of the 1990s, but one thing that has changed is the new role for the alternative media. Blogging is a relatively unknown phenomenon in Pakistan, but it does ever so often provide eye-witness accounts by the average citizen.
 
SJ, a doctor in a state hospital in Karachi, recounts on Karachi Metblog his experience yesterday:
 
I am a doctor. I work at a tertiary care, govt run, large and very well known hospital in Karachi. I have been here at work for more than 32 hrs, and am surfing/typing on my cell-phone. nothing struck down> my soul more than what 9 fully armed workers of MQM alongwith 2 sector office bearers did. They tried to drag out the wounded and dying body of a Sunni Tehrik worker (we later learnt he was sunni tehrik) for presumably finishing him off. When my junior residents said we could not allow that, they slapped

> my junior, dragged us both by our legs to the back of the gurney alley and with shotguns, pistols and ak-47's in hand, ran in to our lobby presumably attempting to search where the man in question was being treated. I ran out to the rangers and police

ASI some distance from our front gate who when approached by myself said, and I quote "When you know who these people are why do you still fight them| we have orders from above to let them do whatever they want until 4pm. After 4pm we will look into the matter."

I  recognized the sector office bearers of the MQM, because I have made the mistake of voting for the MQM in the past. I called a friend in Bohrapir, who is related to Farooq Sattar. 5 mins later the sector charges received a call on their cell, and they left threatening me with I've seen your name. No need to make any noise or else you know what will happen."  The guy they had come looking for had been shot one more time in the head. The OT dress we had dressed him in 10 mins earlier was freshly bloody. I curse myself for all times I have defended these people in discussions with friends.

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