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Karachi, being the industrial and business capital of Pakistan, attracts a herd of people who migrate from different parts of the country in search for better livelihood and living conditions. Bashir Khan* is one of many such people who got fascinated by the ‘glitz and glamour’ of Karachi and relocated. Khan hails from Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and came to Karachi in hopes of better income prospects.
“I came to Karachi a month before the deadly earthquake struck our villages and cities. I initially resided in Karachi with a distant relative who helped me in setting up a small Pan Khoka in Liaquatabad,” said Khan.
“One day, a group of thugs came to my shop, demanding money. Unaccustomed to the modus operandi of business in Karachi I was taken aback, the team ‘assured’ me that the money is nothing but rent which I must pay if I wanted to continue with the business,” he added.
According to Khan the ‘business’ continued for a couple of months but had to be shut down as the rent was superseding the revenue and profit generated by his small cabin.
Khan lost half of his family to the massive earthquake of 2005 and lost a major chunk of his savings to a very well-connected network of Bhattakhor (extortion) mafia of Karachi.
Recently, the government and coalition parties have taken notice of the prevalence of the extortion mafia in Karachi, which perhaps has affected and claimed many lives across the city. However, the question is, are the measures and anti-extortion bills sufficient to compensate the likes of Khan who spend a better half of their lives in saving to reap benefits in the latter half of their lives? People who lose their meagre assets to the anarchy of Karachi without being heard? And most importantly people who lose their beloveds in an effort to challenge the status quo of the corrupt system?
It will not be unwise to say that any business establishment, be it a small tea shop or a garment factory, in Karachi are subjected to similar outwresting. However, small businesses have a much bigger price to pay because they practically lose their means of livelihood whilst surrendering to the demands of the Bhatta Mafia.
Business tycoons, who rein local industries, are also blackmailed, however for them the bars are raised further. Perhaps their businesses continue to thrive but the noose of kidnappings for ransom and threatening phone calls tightens every second.
An industrialist who owns a winding factory near the Site in Karachi, on condition of anonymity said, “if someone tells you that we do not pay a penny to bhattakhors then they are being dishonest. No business in Karachi can ‘prosper’ or even operate without paying to the extortionists.”
“Two and a half years ago I received an anonymous call from someone who threatened to kill my nephew if I refused to heed to his demands. What did I do? I paid him and we continue to pay them because there is no law and order in this city and nobody wants to lose their children,” he added.
In the wake of extortions and kidnappings for ransom, many influential people relocated to countries like South Africa and Dubai and very rightly succumbed to the injustices of the demands made by the bhatta mafia. However, the ones that have been left behind continue to face the brunt of the lawlessness that rules the city.
According to sources, bhatta can at times be collected quite amicably and the slightly richer faction of business fraternity considers it a way of maintaining a congenial relationship with the ‘movers and shakers’ of the country.
“Every month we write a check in favour of a specific bhatta mafia and one of our assistants delivers it. It’s very convenient because in return they provide us with ample security so in a way we pay them for their ‘services’,” said a businessman who owns an automobile show room at Khalid Bin Walid Road.
Perhaps the section of the business community which considers extortion money a ‘blessing’ clearly lives in denial or simply refuse to admit that their objection to pay can result in destruction of their stock, property and, many a time, lives.
The question is what exactly are police and other law enforcing agencies doing to protect the victims of extortion? And where do they disappear when ‘the team’ arrives to collect the money?
“The transactions are carried out in the presence of our police and they completely support it. In fact I pay one rupee per day for every square foot of space that I utilise outside the premises of my restaurant to the custodians of law,” said an owner of a restaurant located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
His reply made me ask him if he knew that his ‘acts’ fall under the crimes of encroachment?
“I might not know that but the police authorities surely do and if they don’t care why should I bother. I am only concerned with the extra amount of rupees that I have to pay to justify whatever ‘crimes’ I am committing,” he added.
The conclusion that I came to, after undergoing the exercise of looking for volunteers who could help me understand the labyrinth of the bhatta mafia, can be summed up as nothing but bizarre. From people who have lost everything to the bhatta system to those who consider it a refuge from miscreants — every man had new information to divulge and a strange experience to narrate, and all the while I kept thinking about how easy it is to find a reason to justify our wrongs.
Perhaps bhattakhors have a similar explanation to their crimes as that of the restaurateur who believed that encroachment can be legalised if one is able to ‘tip’ the right sources. Unless we change the mindset to rationalise our wrongs by looking for scapegoats and reasons to blame, the order of corruption will continue to dictate our lives.
Perhaps it is only human to err however it is time to rectify the unfortunate mistakes of our past which have marred our spirit and progress as a nation.
*Identity concealed due to security reasons.
The writer is a Reporter at Dawn.com
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Pakistan’s counter-terrorism efforts in Karachi have failed miserably,because several factors
1) MQM terrorism
2) Sania Naz, a PPP Jiyali and a Powerful Karachi Bhatta Mafia Boss, who is also a favorite of vocally challenged CM of Sindh, “Hapless” Qaim Ali Shah
3)The inept and paralyzed civilian government of Nawaz Sharif, which is too busy in skimming money for grandiose projects. Or paying homage to his foreign master, the United States.
4)They do not pay attention to the fire being raged by Indian, Saudi, UAE, and Super Power’s agents in Karachi, through surrogate operatives like Sania Naz and the gangsters like Amin Buledi.
5)Pakistan’s Intelligence Agencies cannot lift a finger against these politically patronized terrorists, like Karachi Amn Committee, under the protection of Pakistan’s People’s Party.
In the meantime the Jiyalas and Jiyalis of Pakistan Peoples Party like Sharmila Faruqi and the turncoat of PPP, Nabil Gabol, go on to the media or TV talk shows and through glibness of their venomous tongues defend terrorist patrons like Sania Naz.
They fan the flames of Lyari Gang War, whose ultimate objective is to de-couple Karachi and Gwadar from Pakistan. Gwadar is a thorn on the side of US, India ,the Saudis, and the corrupt Arab Sheikdoms of UAE,particularly Dubai, whose business is threatened by the development of Gwadar.
US does not want to have China develop Gwadar Port and get access to Persian Gulf and shorten its trade links to Europe and the Middle East.
Therefore, there is a confluence of competing interests of India, US, UAE, Saudi Arabia,UK, EU, and Russia, and Iran against the interests of Pakistan and China.
The promotion of terrorism and insurgencies in Balochistan, Karachi, and Gwadar, serves the combined interest of many countries in the region and big powers like Russia and US.
The result is promotion of rampant terrorism in Karachi and deliberate delays in enacting legislation to combat it in Sindh legislator, where RAW agents and Phoolan Devi of Pakistan rules the roost.
Asif Zardari in the mean time is basking in the glory and protection afforded by his twin brother, dubiously “elected” US Agent, PM Nawaz Sharif.
Not of single case of corruption against Asif Zardari has been criminally prosecuted, even, though he is no longer under the umbrella of presidential immunity.
Nawaz Sharif will never prosecute Asif Zardari, because both of them had served the interest of US in the past.
A key interest of US in Pakistan is to destabilize Karachi and Balochistan and sever, Gwadar and Karachi from Pakistan’s control. In order to carry out this objective, people like Sania Naz and Amin Buledi have been recruited to subtly promote terrorism.
Keep Pakistan’s economy hostage to terrorism in Karachi, the commercial hub of Pakistan.
In all these activities, India’s RAW, MQM Terrorists, BLA Terrorists, Taliban Terrorists, Karachi Gangsters, and their patrons like the corrupt politician of Lyari, Sania Naz have been bought off and do the bidding of their foreign masters, a result, the beautiful City of Karachi, the commercial hub of Pakistan is completely paralyzed.
They promote objectives of terrorist organizations in Pakistan and portray Pakistan as a terrorist haven. Here is a list of publications of a RAW f
India has never accepted Pakistan. It destroyed half of it and with Zionist and US help create Bangladesh.
Now its target is Karachi, where it is promoting terrorism, through its surrogates like Sania Naz.
Pakistan’s PM Nawaz Sharif is fiddling like Nero, while Karachi is burning.
He continues to consolidate his foreign businesses run by Hamza Sharif.
He is all set with his super gradiose projects, where he can rob poor Pakistanis of Pakistan’s wealth and fund his global businesses through Hamza Sharif.
His brother, Shahbaz Sharif, through stealth and chicanery, and self promoting and self-aggrandizing propaganda, builds own image as Mr.Clean,
while robbing Pakistan’s biggest province, Punjab blind.
Sania Naz is Pakistan’s Peoples Party’s true face of a RAW operative. She is Phoolan Devi of Pakistan. She runs the biggest gang in the port city of Karachi, but no one knows her true face. She sits as a politician in the Sindh Assembly and is under the patronage of Chief Minister of Sindh Qaim Ali Shah. Pakistan is being damaged from the roots by this gangsta moll. She is behind most of the criminal activities and terrorism carried out by elements from interior Sindh. Her group is always in conflict with the other political gang in Karachi, run remotely, by British terrorist Altaf Hussain, from London.
She was responsible for weaponization of the PPP faction of Lyari, after the dismissal of arms dealer and distributor PPP’s ,Minister, Zulfiqar Mirza.
All these gangs,including the Buledi Gang patronized by Sania Naz, are getting their instructions from Indian intelligence agents operating from the region of Afghanistan, adjacent to North Waziristan region. Sania Naz operates with impunity as she is protected by none other than Asif Zardari, the former President of Pakistan and his pup, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
Indian Intelligence Think Tanks run by Hindus publish reports on the state of terrorism in Pakistan. Their primary focus, nowadays is Karachi, and specifically, the Karachi Gangsters.
One such report by, most likely, a Hindu woman, masquerading as a Muslim (and using the relative anonymity of cyberspace). She/He writes under a Muslim sounding name Ambreen Agha.
She claims to be a Research Assistent in Delhi University. But, most of these writers are employees of the PSYOPS WING of RAW operating from South Block.
One such RAW front Organizations masquerades under the sanctimonious name of SOUTH ASIA TERRORISM PORTAL or SATP.
This RAW front organization key objective is portray Pakistan as a have for terrorists.
In order to give themselves legitimacy, they use the Zionist ploy of mildly implicating terrorism in their own country, by publishing half-baked articles on terrorism in South Asia, particularly, when focusing on India.
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SATP
A RAW FRONT ORGANIZATION BASED IN INDIA
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They promote objectives of terrorist organizations in Pakistan. Here is a list of of publications
Pakistan’s counter-terrorism effort are at best can be described as frail. The corrupt civilian government of Nawaz sharif is too busy to pay attention to the fire being spread by Indian agents in Karachi, through politicians like Sania Naz and gangsters like Amin Buledi.
Pakistan’s Intelligence Agencies cannot lift a finger against these politically patronized terrorists, like Karachi Amn Committee, under the protection of Pakistan’s People’s Party.
The Jiyala’s and Jiyali’s of Pakistan Peoples Party like Sharmila Faruqi, go on to the media or TV talk shows and through glibness of their venomous tongues defend terrorist patrons like Sania Naz
Asif Zardari in the mean-time is basking in the glory and protection afforded by his twin brother, dubiously “elected” US Agent, PM Nawaz Sharif.
Not of single case of corruption against Asif Zardari has been criminally prosecuted, even, though he is no longer under the umbrella of presidential immunity.
Nawaz Sharif will never prosecute Asif Zardari, because both of them had served the interest of US in the past.
A key interest of US in Pakistan is to destabilize Karachi and Balochistan and sever, Gwadar and Karachi from Pakistan’s control. In order to carry out this objective, people like Sania Naz and Amin Buledi have been recruited to subtly promote terrorism.
Keep Pakistan’s economy hostage to terrorism in Karachi, the commercial hub of Pakistan.
In all these activities, India’s RAW, Karachi Gangsters, their Patrons like the corrupt politician of Lyari, Sani Naz have been bought off and do their Master’s bidding. As a result, the beautiful City of Karachi is completely paralysed by
By Ambreen Agha
August 19, 2013
– Lyari Gangster Ghaffar Zikri’s interview with the CNBC.
Recent incidents of violence in Karachi have covered a wide spectrum, including gangsters and terrorists targeting politicians and media, gang wars between local criminals, and targeted killings of a range of civilians.
On August 16, 2013, two persons – a female staffer, Raheela Zohair, and a security guard, Mir Ali – were injured when four unidentified assailants opened fire at the Express Media office located at Korangi Road in Korangi Town.
On the same day, unidentified militants ambushed the vehicle of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) Sania Naz Baloch near Dubai Chowk in Lyari Town. Sania Baloch, however, escaped unhurt.
On August 7, 2013, at least 11 persons were killed and 26 were injured in an explosion outside a football ground in Lyari Town. The blast occurred when footballers and the crowd were leaving the grounds after a football match. The apparent target of the blast was Provincial Minister for Kutchi Abadis and Spatial Development, Javed Nagori, who was the chief guest. Nagori was reportedly injured in the blast.
On August 1, 2013, gunmen belonging to the Sheraz Comrade and Amin Buledi group of the Pakistan Amn Committee (PAC) opened fire on Shakeel Shako, the Joint Sector in-charge of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), killing him on the spot in the Jodia Bazaar (market) of Saddar Town. The Station House Officer Azam Khan said the incident was “a skirmish between activists of the MQM and criminals belonging to the banned PAC”.
The recent incidents of violence are only an extension of the existing culture of mindless killing and arson in Karachi, the District which has provided a ‘level playing field’ to a multiplicity of extremist actors, including criminals, political extremists and terrorists, to orchestrate violence, against a background of a violently polarized politics, with political parties pitting one against the other. Karachi continues to burn with the spill-over of unabated violence in Lyari Town, with gangsters operating in the locality driven by the ambition of establishing full control across the wider Karachi District, comprising of 18 Towns.
All the 18 Towns of Karachi District have been engulfed by extensive violence. According to partial data collected by the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP) Karachi has recorded at least 3,828 fatalities since January 1, 2011, (all data till August 18, 2013), including 3,288 civilians, 274 Security Force (SF) personnel, and 266 terrorists/criminals. Of these, Lyari Town in South Karachi remains the worst hit, recording at least 507 fatalities, including 446 civilians, 36 SF personnel and 25 terrorists/criminals; followed by Orangi Town in Karachi West with at least 478 fatalities, including 430 civilians, 23 SF personnel and 25 terrorists/criminals; and Karachi East’s Gulshan Town, with 443 killed, including 399 civilians, 28 SF personnel and 16 militants. In 2013 alone, Karachi District has already recorded 1,089 fatalities, including 898 civilians, 106 SF personnel and 85 terrorists/criminals. Lyari Town, Gulshan Town and Gadap Town remain the worst affected.
Political killings have become the order of day in the soaring violence that afflicts Karachi. Activists of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), the MQM and the Awami National Party (ANP) have been the principal targets. A total of 304 activists of these parties, including 159 of the MQM; 95 of the ANP, and 52 of the PPP, have been killed since 2011. While the PAC flourishes under the open support of PPP, the Ghaffar Zikri-led Lyari gang is supported by the MQM. Amidst this politically fuelled violence, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has also penetrated Karachi in recent years.
Karachi’s intriguing diversity appears to have become the bane of the entire region. Home to Balochi, Pashtu, Urdu and Sindhi speaking people, the diverse ethnic-linguistic spread across the District is a raw nerve, with identity-based political parties supporting and championing the cause of specific ethnic groups, and engineering a convergence of political elites and criminal elements. Indeed, the continuing wave of violence in Karachi is an account of the state’s complicity in criminal activity, even as a prolonged turf war between two local criminal formations – the PAC and the Lyari gang – which defiantly continue to war for control over Lyari Town and to extend their influence beyond.
The PAC, currently led by Uzair Baloch, and the Lyari gang, led by Ghaffar Zikri, have been fighting tooth and nail to consolidate their influence in the area. The Lyari gang was founded by Arshad Pappu, who was killed by criminals from Uzair’s PAC on March 16, 2013.
The PAC was founded by the deceased Sardar Abdul Rehman Baloch alias Rehman Dakait. The Sindh Home Ministry banned PAC under Section 11-B of the Anti-Terrorism Act on October 10, 2011.
The turf-war began with the killing of PAC founder Rehman Dakait by the SFs on August 9, 2009. It was after his killing that Lyari was divided into two halves – one dominated by present PAC leader Uzair Jan Baloch and the other controlled by Lyari gang founder Arshad Pappu. Soon after Dakait’s death Uzair took over the PAC leadership and initiated the struggle to establish full control over Lyari. Uzair’s territorial aggression was met with resistance from Arshad Pappu. The turf-war escalated with the murder of Arshad Pappu on March 16, 2013. Ghaffar Zikri thus claimed in an interview to CNBC on July 20, 2013, “PAC criminals Baqar Baloch and Yousuf Baloch impersonated Police officials and picked up Arshad on false charges. He was tortured to death, his dead body cut into pieces and thrown in a gutter in Lyari.”
Though PAC has been banned for the last two years, it continues to operate with obvious support from the local administration and politicians. For instance, while expressing his grievances against the collusion between the Police, politicians and members of the PAC, Zikri reiterates:
Uzair Baloch enjoys open support from the PPP and the Police, who do not mount any substantial operation against them. The Chief Minister meets Uzair but he never bothers to meet the residents of Lyari who have been inflicted with violence orchestrated by the PAC. The Police come and sit with the members of the PAC and leave without launching any operation against them. In fact, whatever operations the Police claim to launch are fruitless and superficial.
Indeed, soon after the swearing in ceremony, the newly elected Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, accompanied by his cabinet colleagues, attended a ‘formal dinner’ hosted by the PAC leader, Uzair Baloch, in the night of May 30, 2013. Significantly, Lyari is the only constituency from where the PPP swept all the three seats during the May 2013 Elections. Lyari has one National Assembly seat and two Provincial Assembly seats.
In addition to the crime syndicates present and performing in Karachi, the city is also infested with TTP terrorists who have destabilised the region, along with various sectarian outfits such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jama’at (ASWJ, earlier known as Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan), Sunni Tehreek (ST), Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) and Jundullah. According to a July 22, 2013, report, the Sindh Home Department confirmed the presence of these terrorist groupings. Earlier in October 2012, the Inspector General (IG) of Police, Sindh, Fayyaz Ahmed Khan Leghari submitted a report to a judicial bench of the Supreme Court regarding the infiltration of more than 7,000 TTP militants in Karachi. According to partial data compiled by the Institute for Conflict Management (ICM), 58 persons, including 35 civilians, 12 SF personnel and 11 TTP terrorists have been killed in incidents linked to the TTP in the current year [Data till August 18, 2013]. The number of persons killed in TTP-linked incidents stood at 19 (eight civilians, six SF personnel, five terrorists) in 2012; 69 (36 civilians, 23 SF personnel, 10 terrorists) in 2011; 20 (nine civilians, 11 terrorists) in 2010; and 50 (43 civilians, two SF personnel, five terrorists) in 2009.
TTP’s urban mobility and survival in the metropolitan landscape also suggest its insidious alliance with local criminal groupings and other sectarian-terrorist outfits. Way back in July 2011, security officials were investigating possible links between local criminal gangs and religious outfits in Karachi with terrorist groups associated with TTP. Taking note of the sudden upsurge in violence in 2011, an unnamed official in the Police Department disclosed, “There are definite signs of some connectivity in Karachi between local criminal gangs and some religious extremist groups with Taliban (TTP) who are well organised and this could be the reason for the upsurge in violence in the city.” On July 11, 2011, a counter-terrorism official sounded the alarm on the growing level of co-ordination among extremist groups, including the TTP and local criminal elements.
According to a July 12, 2011, media report, Crime Investigation Department (CID) had sent a secret report to the Federal Ministry of Interior [date not mentioned], about 250 high-profile terrorists, including at least 94 belonging to LeJ, have been arrested from Karachi between 2001 and 2011. Some 40 detained extremists belonged to al Qaeda-linked Harkat-ul-Mujahideen al-Alami (HuMA). During their interrogation the detainees revealed that they worked as a “very well-gelled-together” network and seek commands from their mentors in the tribal areas. This criminal-terrorist nexus not only adds up to presently precarious situation in Karachi, but also has serious implications for Pakistan’s overall stability.
Pakistan continues to adopt a smoke-and-mirrors policy to cover up its inadequacies and the collusive arrangement between elements in the state apparatus and the criminal-terrorist complex. The criminal-terrorist formations appear to command increasing mainstream support in the political system. The recidivism of the political classes has pushed Karachi to extreme desperation, virtually to the edge of anarchy and civil war. While politicians themselves are increasingly targeted by the criminal-terrorist networks, it appears, the will to confront this violence remains conspicuous in its absence, as the calculus of immediate partisan advantage continues to outweigh the high long-term costs that the escalating criminalization of politics and society are inevitably inflicting on the city and the country at large.
INDIA’S RAW AGENT AND HINDU MASQUERADING AS A MUSLIM AMBREEN AGHA, WRITES FROM SOUTH BLOCK, DELHI INDIA ON RAW PORTAL SOUTH ASIA TERRORISM PORTAL
FRAUDULENT IDENTITY: Ambreen Agha is Research Assistant, Institute for Conflict Management
INDIAN INTELLIGENCE OPERATED SOURCE : South Asian Intelligence Review
URL: http://www.newageislam.com/islam,terrorism-and-jihad/ambreen-agha/karachi–gangsters-
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