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"Based on a long interview of Altaf Husain, the present day Chief of the now Muttahida Qaumi Movement (previously Mohajir Qaumi Movement), this book is an account of the protagonist's life and political career up to the year 1988. It provides illuminating insights into the rise of a powerful political party and its charismatic leader. Husain's early encounters with prejudice against a straggling group of immigrants from India known as 'Mohajirs', his disillusionment with religious parties and their claim of impartiality towards all fellow Muslims soon led him to create a robust and coherent political party from the amorphous group of people who were given the name of 'Mohajir'. Not only is this book invaluable as an early blueprint of the MQM's future development and concerns, it is also an impressive record of how an individual, with the help of a small group of friends, generated political consciousness among people who felt powerless in their adopted country, and helped them to stand up confidently for their rights-and later, for the rights of other unprivileged people."--Publisher's website.

Immigrants --- Muhajir (Pakistani people) --- Politicians --- Politics and government. --- #SBIB:328H56 --- Statesmen --- Mohajir (Pakistani people) --- Ethnology --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Politics and government --- Instellingen en beleid: Pakistan --- Ḥusain, Alt̤āf, --- Alt̤āf Ḥusain, --- Hussain, Altaf, --- الطاف حسّين، --- حسين، الطاف، --- Muhājir Qaumī Mūvmenṭ. --- Em. Kiyū. Em. --- MQM --- M.Q.M. --- Mohajir Qaumi Movement --- Muhājir Qaumī Mūvmanṭ --- Muttahida Quami Movement --- Pakistan --- Sindh (Pakistan)

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With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and its resources (votes, land and bhatta-"protection" money). These struggles for the city have become ethnicized. Karachi, often referred to as a "Pakistan in miniature," has become increasingly fragmented, socially as well as territorially. Despite this chronic state of urban political warfare, Karachi is the cornerstone of the economy of Pakistan. Gayer's book is an attempt to elucidate this conundrum. Against journalistic accounts describing Karachi as chaotic and ungovernable, he argues that there is indeed order of a kind in the city's permanent civil war. Far from being entropic, Karachi's polity is predicated upon organisational, interpretative and pragmatic routines that have made violence "manageable" for its populations. Whether such "ordered disorder" is viable in the long term remains to be seen, but for now Karachi works despite-and sometimes through-violence.

Ethnic conflict --- Political violence --- Ethnicity --- Muhajir (Pakistani people) --- Politics and government. --- Muttahida Quami Movement. --- Karachi (Pakistan) --- Mohajir (Pakistani people) --- Ethnology --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Conflict, Ethnic --- Ethnic violence --- Inter-ethnic conflict --- Interethnic conflict --- Ethnic relations --- Social conflict --- MQM --- Muttaḥidah Qaumī Mūvminṭ --- متّحده قومى موومنٹ --- Muhājir Qaumī Mūvmenṭ --- Kurrachee (Pakistan) --- Kurrachi (Pakistan) --- Karācī (Pakistan) --- Corporation of the City of Karachi (Pakistan) --- Karachi Municipal Corporation (Pakistan) --- Baldiyah-yi ʻUẓmā Karācī (Pakistan) --- KMC --- Karachi --- K.M.C. --- Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (Pakistan) --- Karācī Meṭropoliṭan Kārporeshan (Pakistan) --- City District Governmet Karachi --- Karācī Siṭī Ḍisṭrikṭ Gavarnmanṭ