karachi a terror capital in the making
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English Literature
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Hafiz M Haris Hashmi bb133082
Awais Sheikh bb133052
Rana Mohammad Farhan bb133046
Ahmed Wazir
BOOK REVIEW PRESENATION
Book Title:
KARACHI
“A Terror Capital in the Making”
Author Name:
“Wilson John”
Theme of Presentation
Author’s Biography
Introduction of Book
Troubled Past
Formation of MQM
Rapid Changing of Governments
Formation of Militant Groups
Terror Connection
September 11,2001
Future of Karachi
Conclusion
Author’s Biography
Wilson john is a director of ORF
His area of expertise include strategic studies,
Pakistan, Information warfare and China
Other best seller's book include An Admiral’s
Fall and The Tehelka Trap
Introduction of Book
Hub of terror in world
Battle place between Sindhi’s and Mohajirs
Similarly between ‘Sunni’ and ‘Shia’
Involvement of local and international agencies
Second most unsafe place on Earth
Troubled Past
Its first name was “Kalachi Jo Kun”
British's change its name to Karachi after they
made it as their administrative center
British turned Karachi’s seaport into a naval
base during World War 2
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During partition in 1947 Muslim mohajirs of
united province and Bihar settle in Karachi
The new rulers turning the port city into a
heaven for drug dealers
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After the break-up of East Pakistan more
migrants came to Karachi
During Afghan war in 80s the USA made
Taliban's with the help of ISI in the name of
jihad against USSR
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USA gave weapons to them through Karachi
port
During that time it is the ninth largest city of
the World
Formation of MQM
Bhutto totally ignored Mohajirs of Karachiduring his era in 70s
In 1972 a Pakistani taxi driver from US namedAltaf Hussain returned home to form MSO
In 1977 he made MQM with the supervision ofGeneral Zia
Rapid Changing of Governments
When Benazir Bhutto came into power in early 90s MQM didn’t except her and the fight began between MQM and Sindhi’s
The military support MQM at that time
When Nawaz Sharif ( Punjabi leader) came into power in 92 he launch operation “Clean Up” against MQM
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The military also wanted to contain the
growing power of MQM
Altaf Hussain went to London for medical
checkup at that time and never return again
Formation of Militant Groups
Karachi’s Binori Mosque was one of the place
from where the militant groups began
Some of them were Harkat ul-Ansar, Sipah-e-
Saheba, Lashker-e-Jhangvi etc…
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They form deep routs in Karachi and their main
enemy was Shias Muslims
ISI also take mujahidin's through that groups
and trained them for Kashmir war
Terror Connection
This was the time when Al-Qaida made therefirst cell
The leader was Khalid Mohammad Sheikh andRamzi Yousef
They are interlinked with Mulla Omar andUsama Bin Laden who controled this groupfrom Afghanistan
September 11,2001
Khalid Sheikh and Ramzi made plan to hijackthe US airlines in the command of Osama andUmar
They settle their people in US and they tooktraining of flying Airplane in US privateschool
They choose plastic knives as weapon tohijack
Future of Karachi
According to writer the future of Karachi is
dark because it is almost impossible to stop all
terror groups
Wilson john also said that it may be a future
like Kandahar(world’s number 1 terror city)
Conclusion…
Although the writer of the book is Indian but inreality he gave clear picture of Karachi
After reading the book we somehow know thegroups who expand terrorism in the name ofIslam
Terrorism of international agencies like RawCIA also disable Karachi and its people
