MQM 'disappointed' by PM's Karachi visit
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KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar on Thursday said his party was disappointed by the prime minister's visit to Karachi, saying Nawaz Sharif had left Karachi without "answering our questions."
Talking to reporters at Nine Zero, MQM's headquarters, the senior Rabita Committee member said Nawaz Sharif was "gifted the arrest of MQM workers" on his arrival at Karachi.
He went on to say that under Article 10 of the Constitution, it was mandatory to state reasons for arresting anyone, reiterating his party's earlier claim that workers are being detained illegally under the garb of the Karachi operation.
Sattar said it was clear that MQM was being cornered and voiced disappointment that the premier did not contact his party on the occasion.
The MQM leader also alleged that supremo Altaf Hussain's live speeches had been banned on TV, which he claimed was a tactic to enforce the "minus Altaf formula."
He also said the MQM will hold a protest demonstration outside Press Club on Friday against the ban on Altaf's speeches. "Today they are not airing his [Altaf Hussain's] speeches. Tomorrow it will be someone else."
"The unannounced ban ban on Altaf Hussain's speeches is illegal. We will take this matter to court." Sattar went on to say that the MQM was Karachi's representative party, bagging over 80% of the city's votes.
Last week, MQM legislators had resigned for the National Assembly, Senate and the Sindh Assembly to protest what the party said were excesses committed during the Rangers-led security operation in Karachi.
Take a look: MQM lawmakers tender resignations.
MQM claims the paramilitary force, Rangers, which has been given special powers to cleanse Karachi of criminal elements, is targeting its workers and supporters and questions the partiality of the operation.
Since MQM's resignation from Parliament, the federal government has been making efforts to reconcile differences with the party and push for its return to assemblies. Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of the JUI-F, has been tasked to conduct talks with MQM and thrash out a solution to the political crisis.
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Aug 20, 2015 07:00pm
Please MQM, you have agreed for direct talks with govt. Wait for it.
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Aug 20, 2015 07:04pm
Let's become either PUNJABI, SINDHI OR PHATTAN everything will be fine.
You can say about Army as like Imran Khan, Khaja Asif, Zardari, Mengal, WALI KHAN etc
No one will take any action against you or your political party.
They will never accept you.
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Aug 20, 2015 07:06pm
why is MQM still in talks with Maulana and NS ?
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Aug 20, 2015 07:09pm
You always disappoint us, now what?
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Aug 20, 2015 07:10pm
Good to Know No Lift to MQM
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Aug 20, 2015 07:12pm
PM should have visited Rashid Godil same as he had done for Hamid Mir.
Again, the people of Karachi know the difference!
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Aug 20, 2015 07:15pm
Since the operation started people of Karachi feel much safer. What is there to be disappointed?
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Aug 20, 2015 07:15pm
Karachi is a complicated issue and it need to be sorted I guess in following way:
1. Whole country need to be divided in smaller provices specially Sindh. Reason mainly is that normally Sindhi's vote for PPP and urdu speaking population do not get hands on their part of resources plus corruption is a bigger issue in Sindh. So people in Karachi struggle for their rights.
2. Pervaiz Musharref's introduced local bodies system need to be active again so Nazam of Karachi would be able to manage the development budget for the city.
3. MQM needs to get rid of criminal elements in their party and try to do a national level politics.
4. PTI and PML N need to do more to win the hearts of urdu speaking population.
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Aug 20, 2015 07:21pm
P.M nawaz shareef has always been against other provinces specially urban sindh,when ever he comes in power,people happen to see MQM maligned otherwise everything goes fine in army's government like musharaf or other democratic govt. like PPP etc.It seems nawaz shareef has got grudge against us.
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Aug 20, 2015 07:22pm
Why he should listen to you guys, PM knows you are leaving assemblies.
You resigned and next day you guys were ready to negotiate, it was a wrong tactical move. Probably in Pakistan, everyone was sure that MQM is not serious about resignation and that makes your position very weak. Its a matter of pressure and patience, you have failed in both.
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Aug 20, 2015 07:28pm
Now it is the perfect time to stick to your resignation from all provincial & National Assemblies since the PM didn't address your concerns about Karachi Operation or only MQM. We will see how many people will hold protest once you are no longer in power.
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Aug 20, 2015 07:32pm
Attention seekers, like children. Do something for Karchiates and get attention.
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Aug 20, 2015 07:34pm
Thank you PM.
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Aug 20, 2015 07:39pm
If i do not vote for Mqm, I will never vote for NS or PML n either.
Mr. PM should know that making mere inaugurations cannot do any good.You cannot win hearts of Karachiites, unless something substantial is planned and done for Karachi.
Mr. PM Please be aware of the issues of people of Karachi & solve them.Otherwise people will not vote for you.
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Aug 20, 2015 07:52pm
@Bitter Truth "Let's become either PUNJABI, SINDHI OR PHATTAN everything will be fine. You can say about Army as like Imran Khan, Khaja Asif, Zardari, Mengal, WALI KHAN etc
No one will take any action against you or your political party. They will never accept you."
Simply not true. Malik Ishaq was dealt with equally harsher treatment.
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Aug 20, 2015 07:58pm
PM does not want to meet MQM and address their concerns as he represents the big province mentality of ignoring the Karachi representative party. This will not help him or Pakistan as such a treatment will further alienate Karachiites. As a goodwill gesture he should have visited rasheed godiel, but he has an indifferent attitude
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Aug 20, 2015 07:59pm
You should not be dissapointed with the PM Farooq Sattar because he himself along with establishment is behind the atrocities happening against urdu speaking people of urban sindh and MQM.
Even a child knows Nawaz and PML-N has personal grudge against urban sindh, MQM and its leadership.
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Aug 20, 2015 08:02pm
MQM must understand that Pakistan after 1955 when one unit was created and the provincial capital moved to Lahore upon dissolving the other three provinces became Punjabistan. Even Balochs and Sindhis are treated as outsiders and not son of the soil. Though Yahya Khan in 1970 restored the provinces of Sindh, Balochistan, and now KPK, but the Punjab dominated Fed bureaucracy runs the country not the provincial governments. Corruption in Karachi and Sindh are in the news, what alarming corruption is going on in Punjab is not news worthy? Shame on the so called rulers of Pakistan.
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Aug 20, 2015 08:23pm
This man always complains, (rhona peetna) never he says good word about anything. He travels throughout the country without any professional work or apparent earnings of any kind. But for Moulana's Fazal's interference MQM would have been back to the parliament lot earlier. Because of his indulgence (needless of course), they are showing tantrum syndrome.
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Aug 20, 2015 08:29pm
@Gul ...It is very sad analysis of the situation, we should not promote provincialism in our statements, rather Pakistanis. If we aspire for the single unit, then we have to roll back our minds that speak out such unfounded assumptions.
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Aug 20, 2015 08:32pm
don worry sooner you will get all the answer in details with proofs. and you will be hiding then.....
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Aug 20, 2015 08:32pm
what next MQM / will Altaf denounce this project and ask you not to use electricity generated by this plant ?
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Aug 20, 2015 08:42pm
You have to stop terrorists activities and disarm your miliant members and handover them to the rangers otherwise face consequences. Your rule by gun on Karachi is over now. Your aim to blackmail government through resignations is failed.
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Aug 20, 2015 08:49pm
Pakistan has been at the loosing end due to the wrong policies and centralisation by the powerful and ruling class.So the solution is justice, equality, rights, localisation, ownership, truth and good governance.
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Aug 20, 2015 08:55pm
Bhai Jan you have resigned from the parliament under what capacity, you want to see PM.
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Aug 20, 2015 08:56pm
but people of Karachi are happy...isn't that enough?
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Aug 20, 2015 09:01pm
MQM should realize that the current crackdown on MQM was instigated at the behest of NS who has done the same everytime he came to power. MQM should not take back their resignation and keep a low prtofile till there is a change of government.
Meantime the economy is bound to suufer and many industrialist and businessmen will take their business and finances overseas.
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Aug 20, 2015 09:09pm
Be a political party...Only...and there il be no problem..
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Aug 20, 2015 09:15pm
Are they ever happy, why not open up a complaint cell.
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Aug 20, 2015 09:25pm
PM hands are tied! He is answrable to a higher authorities .
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Aug 20, 2015 09:30pm
I have one question that always tease me. How muhajirs of Punjab became just Pakistani and not called them muhajir and only feel proud of being a Pakistani. but muhajirs of sind call them muhajirs till this time???
My answer is because no one repeatedly call them muhajir like some political parties do in sindh. if any one has different ans please guide me.
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Aug 20, 2015 09:39pm
@M.M.Sherazi
What you say if we agree to expunge all ethnic names (i.e. Punjabi, Pathan, Baloch and Sindhi) from the constitution and keep only Pakistani?? Will you support this??
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Aug 20, 2015 09:43pm
Regardless of the claims by Ch. Nisar and the rangers about the new found peace and serenity in Karachi... the way PM sneaks in and out of the city shows all about what security situation of Karachi is in reality. A sitting MNA is shot 6 times with his driver dead in broad day light in the middle of city is a huge question mark on Rangers. Why would NS make extra stops and take risks?
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Aug 20, 2015 10:11pm
@Glowing Pakistan Because they speak Punjabi and those migrated to Sindh never needed to speak Sindhi as they never had to merge in Sindhi culture . They came with a much richer and superior culture that are now a big part of Pakistani culture. Those who came to Sindh changed the culture , economics and demographics of the urban Sindh, while those came to Punjab merged in Punjabi culture .
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Aug 20, 2015 10:19pm
You have 2 options; either make MQM happy or bring peace to Karachi and Karachiites!
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Aug 20, 2015 10:27pm
In 1973, Sindh-urban was represented in the Assemblies solely by the Islamists, and MQM or PPI did not even exist. It was at this point in time when the hatred and divide was constitutionally sown in.
Thanks to the Constitution of 1973 the malignancy of ‘constitutional divide of Sindh' was promulgated in the form of five types of domicile in four provinces.
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Aug 20, 2015 10:27pm
There is one domicile in Punjab, one in Balochistan, one in Khayber Pukhtoonkhwa but two in Sindh (urban and rural). This constitutional divide in addition to the famous language bill of Sindh Assembly furnished the final stroke to the burning iron.
The populace of Sindh-urban was the only one that sent Islamists to the Parliaments in the whole of Pakistan since 1947 to 1987 — Dr Nazeer Shaheed being the only exception.
Warna ummat tere mehboob ki deewani thi , as Dr Iqbal put forth in Shikwah)
The fact that these hateful acts cannot be undone without the mandatory 2/3rd majority is something like the proverbial rotten carcass in the drinking water well. Do all that you can but the water will not be potable till the source is removed and treated by an appropriate remedy (medicinal or surgical)!
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Aug 20, 2015 10:29pm
@Khan- Pakistani
No Punjabi, Phattan who lives in karachi speaks sindhi or understand. Quaid Azam Mohammd Ali Jinnah born in Karachi but did not know sindhi language.
Karachi was not a part of Sindh before 1947.
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Aug 20, 2015 10:33pm
@Ghulam Both are just one option Keep MQM happy and people of Karachi are happy. Rangers do not matter. Happiness comes in solving Karachi problem and letting Karachites govern themselves at the local level .
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Aug 20, 2015 10:37pm
@Dr Rehman (Dow) Exactly I support your comments 100%.
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Aug 20, 2015 10:40pm
@Amir Shahzad Simply put, well said. It is time also for provinces to ask for equal representation in armed forces and other law enforcement agencies. Punjab with 55% of population should not have 90% of recruitment only from Punjab. World is not buying Pakistani narrative of blaming other countries for all type of of it internal problems and not much being dine to control terrorism; US us for one.
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Aug 20, 2015 11:09pm
The whole problem lies on how seats in national assembly are divided. NS knows he only needs to appease punjabis and win in punjab to get elected and thats all he cares about. If the provincial setup was such that every party needed to win seats in every province to form government then all of a sudden Mr sharif will be more welcoming for urban sindh. This whole setup is screwed and bound for failure. If this continues sind or urban sind will soon be not part of Pakistan. Foreign elements know this weakness and are actively working on it. Its are dumb selfish politicians like NS who fail to realize this.
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Aug 20, 2015 11:18pm
@fakhar waleed This 'grudge', if you call it so, has brought calm and peace to Karachi people. Thanks NS, keep this 'grudge' in tact to clean Karachi from Dons and Mafia forever. Peace, safety and security first, everything else comes later.
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Aug 20, 2015 11:31pm
@Glowing Pakistan So let me guide you. Ask yourself this question, what do you call punjabis who migrated from india? Hindustani? i bet not? Now what do you call urdu speaking folks who migrated from India? There you go, you have answer to your question. Problem lies within your own community fix it and all these issues will go away.
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Aug 21, 2015 12:49am
How can the government allow a foreign national to speak to Pakistanis so blatantly and adversely against their beloved armed forces who are so bravely and determinedly fighting for their motherland? My family came to Pakistan in July, 1947, and my best friends are Urdu speaking and I love them. No foreign national must be allowed to incite us against our own soldiers.
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Aug 21, 2015 01:32am
I am so glad that he left with out answering your questions.
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Aug 21, 2015 01:34am
Try to understand Mr Farooq Sattar, you and the MQM are irrelevant.
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Aug 21, 2015 01:36am
Today or tomorrow federal and sindh provincial governments have to give to due rights to MQM (public root party in urban sindh). Sooner is better and late may become bitter.
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Aug 21, 2015 01:42am
@salman I am not MQM voter for past 2 elections, but as a Urdu speaking person, I would agree that All provinces must be dissolved and be governed through local bodies. Any body who speaks an Dialect should be punished and National Languages should be the way to go. I can clearly see the differences in how the matters are being handled, on one hand MNA are sodomizing children with no consequences on the other hand Mohajir are being picked up by Punjabi Rangers.
Mohajirs should create a separate levy force for Karachi Like FC Baluchistan etc to govern Karachi and Urban cities.
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Aug 21, 2015 01:51am
@Amir Shahzad What's with this "winning hearts of Urdu population"?
If you are really so proposing about solutions to this country, talk about everyone. It's people like you who try to be those modern, modest and moderate people, however, always hiding under a disguise.
It's always vote of the people. Not vote of Punjabis, Sindhis, Balochis, Pathans or Muhajirs.
Keep your futile solution to yourself and try to be neutral rather than being secretly suggestive.
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Aug 21, 2015 01:54am
@fakhar waleed We too live in Karachi and know what condition the city is in. I am never a supporter of Nawaz Sharif but if you think MQM is doing anything good to Karachi, you're definitely out of your mind. I teach our youth here in Karachi and if it was really such great conditions in the city, every student wouldn't be wishing to get out of this place. You sure have something personal against other races and nations that makes you think that an operation in Karachi is an operation against a particular group of people.
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Aug 21, 2015 01:54am
@Amir Shahzad You got 70 percent wrong and 30 percent right....
Let me elaborate here.
I totally agree with you that the country has to be divided into smaller provinces but your reason for division is useless. The main reason for division should be proper and fair distribution of national resources, Focused development in rural areas, better governance through micro management of key issues, easy to introduce reforms.
I disagree with you when you say urdu speaking people are struggling to get their rights....you probably need to reassess your views on this....
I agree with you in local body system... this is important to ensure we have a functional institutions and followed by state autonomy to enable each state to work for its people.
MQM without criminals is good but its not possible until and unless they change their leader. MQM will be left with handful people if it let go its criminal elements... that is because the 80% people in MQM are involved in criminal activities.
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Aug 21, 2015 02:01am
The shameful Prime Minister visited Hamid Mir the next day when he was shot, but did not visit Rashid Godil, shameful discrimination.
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Aug 21, 2015 02:22am
@Dr Rehman (Dow) It's not even a point that Karachi was not a part of Sindh before 1947. It's a piece of land that has always been there so it was definitely part of it. The place you call Sindh is nothing created in 1947. I hope you remember the old elementary textbooks where it says how old Sindh is and for how long the people of Sindh have been living there.
I am not even sure what your point is. What is it by the way?
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Aug 21, 2015 02:41am
All is The Drama by MQM
They do not want peace in the country they Nawaz is doing is best keep working on karachi opperation...it is for the lives of karachi people action
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Aug 21, 2015 03:51am
Farooq Sattar believes Karachi is his kingdom. Pakistan needs a central government.
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Aug 21, 2015 04:03am
MQM needs power, once given they will be party again...same game every year for last many yeears
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Aug 21, 2015 04:04am
There is serous lack of leadership from both sides. MQM whines a lot and PM is Nawaz is Nawaz with no clue.
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Aug 21, 2015 04:12am
@VoiceOfReason PMLN just won in gilgit baltistan. NS has more seats outside Punjab than PPP outside Sind, PTI outside KPK. and MQM outside Sind
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Aug 21, 2015 05:45am
Please look inward and find the answers. MQM should not mix up and confuse the issue. A criminal is a criminal only and nothing else. Either take the line of God, or be party to the criminals.
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Aug 21, 2015 06:26am
How many shut downs, Press Conferences, contacts with UNO and Human Rights Organizations, boycotts of provincial and National Assemblies MQM leaders have carried out against the quota system hurting Mohajirs the most, which also been their original slogan and agenda to fetch socalled Mohajirs support? But thousands of smaller and bigger dharnas, strike calls, protests and total shutdowns of all economic activities of greatest revenue generating city carried out for little personal whims and matters and this unabated destruction of the Nation/Country allowed due impotence and incompetence of the corrupt rulers and Govts? If you are true friends of Mohajirs what did you do for those great Mohajirs rotting in Dacca camps for so many decades whose elders had not migrated to live in Bengladesh or any other Desh but to live and die only in and for Pakistan. Those who allow any foreign citizen to incite the people in Pakistan for anti State violence also committing act of treason?
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Aug 21, 2015 06:46am
@ZULFIQAR MQM s lift comes from the karachi masses.
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Aug 21, 2015 06:47am
@salman agreed
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Aug 21, 2015 07:14am
@Syed You talk too much about about inside and outside . Do you know that Federal cabinet has 90 % members from inside Punjab and 10% from outside Punjab. This government is an inside and outside Punjab government . The representation of whole Sindh in the cabinet is less than the members of cabinet from Chicaa Watani .
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Aug 21, 2015 07:14am
@excalibur Both as same .
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Aug 21, 2015 08:05am
If you ignore then we will have to pay for the peace of Karachi just be straight forward show them their mistakes and the dues they should pay we already paid our dues by living dead in Karachi
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Aug 22, 2015 02:56pm
@usman ,yes Mr Usman, I am Indiam and living in Licester England, I am going to organise Indian and Pakistani to ask UK government that we want to run local government of Liicester because we are in majority.
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Aug 22, 2015 11:32pm
Life is full of disappointments, get used to it.
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Aug 23, 2015 05:36am
@Glowing Pakistan , Muhajirs who settled in Punjab or other provinces didnot face urban/rural divide of quota system.
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