1- Isolation:

Altaf Hussain said that the first part of this three-pronged strategy is to isolate Mohajirs from the rest of the communities in the country, and this policy is underway through physical, psychological, social and political isolation of Mohajirs. He said the Establishment forced a military operation against Mohajirs in 1992 to legitimise the illegal and brutal actions against them. The Establishment deliberately used the army, knowing fully well that an army is the symbol of any country's national solidarity and when the same army starts action against any particular community, the message other communities get from this is that the action is legitimate. And even if they deem the action inappropriate, they should not have the courage to speak against it because of the involvement of the armed forces.

He said that through the policy of isolation of Mohajirs, the Establishment forced the MQM leadership either to go underground or seek refuge in exile. The link between the leaders and their people was severed aiming at disintegration of the movement. Mohajirs were brutally terrorised so that they quit the MQM and accept slavery. While the Mohajirs in general and the MQM in particular, were victimised through State operation, false and fabricated "torture cells" were "exposed" and the MQM was accused of terrorism. Television, newspapers and magazines were fed horrendous and fabricated stories of MQM brutalities so that the people of Pakistan start hating the party and the world consider the MQM a terrorist organisation.

Another attempt to isolate the MQM completely from other nationalities of Pakistan, was to accuse it of planning to create "Jinnahpur". An army brigadier, Asif Haroon, invited journalists from Punjab and showed them fabricated maps of this fictional country, "Jinnahpur". These maps were printed in newspapers across the country and thus an attempt was made to present Mohajirs as anti-Pakistan and secessionists. The purpose was to create hatred in the minds of all patriot Punjabis, Pakhtoons, Sindhis, Baloch, Seraikis and Kashmiris and every other Pakistani against the MQM by presenting the party as a terrorist outfit whose supporters were hell bent upon breaking the country.

Through false and fabricated accusations of Jinnahpur, the Establishment questioned the patriotism not only of the MQM but the entire Mohajir community, so as to completely cut them off from all other communities of the country. Why would the patriot Punjabis, Pakhtoons, Sindhis, Baloch, Seraikis and Kashmiris support the Mohajirs and their representative political party, the MQM, and raise their voice condemning the State brutalities against the Mohajirs and MQM, when they are being fed stories showing the Mohajirs and the MQM as enemies of Pakistan and anti-State villains.

Altaf Hussain said that under this policy of isolation, the Establishment provided the criminal Haqiqi terrorists with weapons, vehicles and money to kill MQM workers and sympathisers and allowed them a licence to carry out broad-daylight terrorism and mass killings. For the purpose of making No Go Areas, the Haqiqi terrorist were allowed to forcibly occupy Landhi, Korangi, Malir, Shah Faisal Colony and Lines Area localities under Establishment supervision so that the MQM is delinked from these areas, making it feel more isolated, and the world is given an impression that the people of No-Go areas are with Haqiqi terrorists and the MQM's support in Karachi is very limited. The Establishment also tried to split the MQM vote bank by dividing Karachi. On the one hand, Haqiqi terrorists were allowed to forcibly occupy Landhi, Korangi, Malir, Shah Faisal Colony and Lines Area localities, and on the other a new Malir District was created by merging certain rural areas of District East, so that the Mohajir majority polling district is curtailed and an impression is given to the world that MQM is only a District Central party and not a majority party of Karachi.

Altaf Hussain said that sometimes as a consequence of general elections, such a situation has been coming to the fore, which was not to the liking and policies of the Establishment. It is, therefore, that the Establishment adopted all tactics to eliminate the MQM, but the MQM withered all these pressures and continued to attract massive public support, which showed in successive general elections. Though these successes were against the desires of the Establishment, it had no other alternative but to invite the MQM in government formation because of its electoral position. But the Establishment's policy of isolating the MQM does not stop even when the MQM is part of the government. It just continues.

In February 1997, a coalition government was formed in Sindh province with the MQM and Pakistan Muslim League as partners. The PML had 14 members while the MQM had double of that figure i.e. 28, so logically the chief minister should have been from the MQM as it was the majority party. But it was kept away from the chief ministership under the same isolation policy. The post of the governor was also not given to the MQM despite a written agreement in that regard. To further worsen the situation, the MQM was kept away from all the administrative and government affairs. It was not involved even in the law and order meetings under the same isolation policy.

Altaf Hussain said the process of isolation is still on through the present State operation against Mohajirs in general and the MQM in particular, because the Establishment knows that unless a community is isolated from the others, any repressive action against it is not possible. That is why the Mohajirs and MQM are being accused of anti-State activities and tagged as Indian or RAW agents. Jinnahpur charge is again being trumpeted as if the MQM is struggling for an independent State. MQM once again, is being made target of worst kind of 'media trial'. People's minds are being poisoned through false stories and they are made to believe that killing Mohajirs is the only solution to save the State. This is being done in a way so that when the State-operation grinds the Mohajirs to extermination and their genocide is propelled with enhanced ferocity, no one comes forward to support them and other nationalities term this genocide as perfectly legal and legitimate.

Citing the example of the recent Governor's Rule in Sindh, Altaf Hussain said that while all the Mohajirs, Sindhis and settlers from other provinces protested the formation of military courts in Sindh and imposition of Governor's Rule as wrong, while people from the largest province settled in Karachi supported the same because they have been brainwashed through consistent government propaganda that unless the Mohajirs are eliminated, the non-Mohajirs in Karachi are not safe. The people are being tuned to anti-Mohajir stories to an extent that they start hating the word Mohajir. Altaf Hussain termed this the psychological isolation of Mohajirs where the psyche and psychological reactions of other nationalities and communities is being tuned in such a manner that they not only consider themselves separate from Mohajirs but detest them also.

Altaf Hussain said that from the very beginning, the Establishment has taught the other nationalities that only the "sons of the soil" have a right to live in Pakistan, while the Mohajirs are not accepted as "sons of the soil". Altaf Hussain said that Mohajirs have been portrayed as aliens and the Establishment has created a situation in the country through its venomous propaganda, branding them as traitors. When Mohajirs visit Punjab, NWFP and Balochistan, the people of those provinces see them with suspicion and they do not mix with them. Through this sort of mentality, the Establishment has tried to physically isolate the Mohajirs.

He said that the because of this sustained anti-Mohajir propaganda, non-Mohajirs do not invite Mohajirs to their functions and even if invited by chance they are treated as strangers. This, Altaf Hussain said, is the social isolation. He said that the Mohajirs are not invited in governmental functions and also in the functions arranged by the government functionaries in their private capacity where guests of other nationalities are invited. He said those Mohajirs, however, are invited who are part and parcel of government's over all anti-Mohajir policies.

The MQM leader commented that while all the other political and religious parties go on meeting each other despite their differences but the image of the MQM is tarnished through a sustained government propaganda and it is portrayed as a terrorist party which should not be accepted as a political organisation. This way the MQM is being politically isolated. He said the political opponents of the MQM blame it for segregating the Mohajirs from people of other nationalities while the facts are totally otherwise. The issue of "sons of the soil" is not an MQM initiative, the 1964 Pakhtoon-Mohajir riots were not engineered by the MQM, and neither was the MQM behind the 1972 linguistic riots nor was it behind the imposition of "Quota System" in Sindh province. The party, in fact, did not exist at that time. The Establishment masterminded these riots and clashes in an attempt to isolate Mohajirs from the rest of the nationalities.