Muttahida Again — Coming Out Party for the Band That’s Back Together

[embed]MQM-P stages first 'power show' after unification KARACHI: More than two months after its unification, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan on Saturday staged a 'power…www.dawn.com

Good rhetoric. Two questions stand:

• Will this reunited band will be able to stand, and have the integrity to stand, for its principles and not be co-opted by the Establishment — what so often, almost invariably, took the form of being foced into what Saleem Safi Saahab calls “ittehad bil jabr”, or forced coalitions.
• Will they behave like the people-friendly, “haq parast” movement they would like us — including us Muhajirs ourselves — to believe they are, can be, and will be.

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