Dr Mirza's press conference on August 28, 2011 at the Karachi Press Club was sensational. He not only announced resigning from the membership of the Sindh Assembly, but also declared quitting the position he has been holding in the party.
He was lambasting the MQM as ever but yet he was in his senses to overlook the other warring factions in Karachi. He never said who is responsible for the killings of the MQM affiliates and the Urdu-speaking people in the recent violence. In this way he divulged the incomplete truth.
Before current tenure of the PPP, there were only two warring factions in Karachi namely the MQM and the ANP but now the PPP (via Liyari) and the Sunni Tehrik joined the ranks. Moreover, the Taliban fleeing from north and the Baloch rebels have also taken refuge in Karachi 'jungle'. Drugs, arms, land-grabbing and street crime mafias have been constant menaces. The MQM, PPP and ANP have become part of the problem and have failed to find a solution. A third force can make them sit together to agree upon:
a- Deweaponise Karachi.
b- Get an honest population census.
c- Redefine the electoral constituencies.
d- New voter registration list. There should be an agreed formula to consider people from other provinces to become permanent residents of Karachi, abandoning their previous domicile.
e- Measures to be taken to gradually eliminate the ethnicity flavour of all the political parties in Karachi. The MQM has to make a sacrifice for honourable peace in Karachi but they can enhance their opportunities in other provinces at the same time.
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