Are the criminalisation of politics and politicisation of crime the biggest problems in Karachi?

“Criminals have entered every political party,” says Waseem Ahmed, Capital City Police Officer in Karachi.

“There is no den of heroin or of weapons in Lyari,” says Abdul Qadir Patel, MNA, Pakistan Peoples Party,

Rehman Dakait may have been killed last year but his legacy remains in the shape of the Peoples Amn Committee.

The decentralised networks of militant groups have many sources of generating funds, including local and foreign Islamic charities, bank robberies and kidnappings for ransom, mainly in Karachi.

Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri is seen as the kingpin of the radical Baloch nationalist movement, which explicitly demands an independent Balochistan. Never one to mince words, he has this to say about the decades-old problems plaguing Balochistan: “We cannot live with the Punjabis. There is no room for compromise in my book. We have to get rid of them.”

Is the National Assembly already beginning to regret its near unanimous approval of the Nizam-e-Adl as the Taliban extend their writ in parts of Malakand?

Sabihuddin Ghausi stressed the power of facts. Tell your story as simply as possible: a news story based on strong facts does not need the crutches of adjectives and flowery language, remained the crux of his message. And he practiced what he preached – both in his incisive news reports and his articles.

Jamaat-ud-Dawa claims that it is a charity organisation that is being wrongly accused of fronting for their banned militant parent organisation, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba.

Pressure on the Jamaat-ud-Dawa increases as India persuades the UNSC to impose sanctions against them for their alleged involvement in the Mumbai carnage.