Karachi

Karachi: After Altaf, the deluge?

A passage on Karachi’s extreme violence, citing Laurent Gayer’s Ordered Disorder, and Christophe Jaffrelot’s warning that electoral politics combined with paramilitary technique could get out of hand after Altaf Hussain.

Brown Pundits Archive11 June 20140 comments
Britain responsible for Taliban-led atrocities

Mocking brown liberals who blame colonial rulers for everything, the post says Britain is responsible for Taliban atrocities through a massive bomb-detector fraud, and quotes a report on how militants…

Brown Pundits Archive10 June 20140 comments
Cold storage horror

On the Karachi airport cold-storage deaths, the poster asks whether anyone switched off the power, and reads the attack as Pashtun nationalism seeking ‘pure lands for pure people’ and sea…

Brown Pundits Archive10 June 20140 comments
Karachi Airport (repeat attack)!!!!

A DawnNews report of a second attack near Karachi airport that the TTP claimed, with the poster noting the militants have become brazen and asking about their obsession with planes.

Brown Pundits Archive10 June 20140 comments
Pakistan and Terrorism; Rocket Science?

Reacting to the Karachi airport attack and the killing of at least 23 Shias in Balochistan that drew little coverage, the author mocks Pakistan’s script of blaming RAW, Mossad and…

Brown Pundits Archive9 June 20140 comments
Karachi Airport terror attack

A report on the Karachi airport attack with at least 20 dead, with the poster hoping BP readers and their families are safe and arguing that the cult of suicide…

Brown Pundits Archive8 June 20140 comments
Crisis in Karachi: Altaf Hussain arrested

A news report on Altaf Hussain’s arrest in London on suspicion of money laundering, with the poster’s view that the timing helps Nawaz Sharif against Imran Khan, that extradition is…

Brown Pundits Archive3 June 20140 comments
Taliban Justice. Then and Now

The poster points to Kahar Zalmay’s report on taking a Karachi property dispute to a Taliban commander’s court in North Waziristan, and reposts his own six-year-old account, suggesting the heroic…

Brown Pundits Archive8 April 20141 comment
The victims of partition(s)

A report that gunmen killed four people in Karachi, including Shia scholar Allama Taqi Hadi Naqvi, with the poster’s reflection that minorities and majorities keep being redefined until each person…

Brown Pundits Archive27 February 20140 comments