3- Demoralisation:

Explaining demoralisation, Altaf Hussain said that all the three aspects of this Establishment strategy are inter-linked, because once people are isolated from their countrymen and criminalised through a sustained campaign, it is quite natural for them to lose morale. This is what the Establishment is doing; force the leadership to either leave the country or go into hiding or exile or arrest them, raid their houses, arrest innocent men (old and young), violate the sanctity of women and similar other tactics so that the whole community lose hope and quit the MQM. Altaf Hussain said the actual purpose of this three-pronged strategy is to eliminate Mohajirs for good and convert Karachi into a Punjab's colony. An aim only possible if they finish the MQM.

He appealed to intelligentsia, poets, writers, professors - especially of political science, teachers, students, columnists, lawyers, doctors, engineers and people from all other walks of life particularly MQM leaders, office bearers, workers and supporters, to see through this nefarious policy of the Establishment and asked them not to lose hope at any cost, remain united, steadfast and determined.

He said Establishments in Palestine, South Africa and Ireland employed similar tactics to curb movement for their rights. Their leaders were termed as terrorists, put behind bars for decades, communities were tortured, isolated and brutalised but to no avail. Yesterday's Arafat is today's Palestinian hero, Nelson Mandela, detained for 27 years, is now a Nobel laureate, while talks are going on with Irish leaders. Altaf Hussain stated that no oppressed nation has ever attained its rights within a period of five or ten years. They had to struggle for a long time. Nelson Mandela and his nation had to struggle for over fifty years. Similarly, Yaser Arafat and Palestinian people struggled for over fifty years. After huge sacrifices and over fifty years struggle, Kashmiri people could not get their right to self-determination.

But he added that these leaders and people had to struggle for much longer period and if the MQM struggle is compared to these movements, the MQM has won national and international acclaim in a much shorter time which should be regarded as a major achievement.

He said the Establishment in Pakistan is thinking that the morale of Mohajir community can be broken by victimising them to the worst kind of State suppression, but let me tell you, they will never succeed as all the tyrants had to accept defeat in the long run. The innocent blood, though shed in abundance, brings life back to suppressed people and this universal rule will again succeed in the case of the MQM. The suppressive actions of the State, oppressors and tyrants may create a momentary demoralisation, but in the end, the blood of the martyrs brings down the oppressors and the tyrants.