جاوید احمد خورشید

Abstract
The review presents the contents of Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City by Laurent Gayer surveying the various threads that go into Karachi’s landscape of violence. Karachi’s violence has shown patterns of organization, containment and continuity in certain areas of the city. Karachi’s violence within its historical roots i.e the displaced populations arriving in the city after Partition which sparked Karachi’s chronic land and housing crisis. Examining MQM, he traces the roots of Mohajir nationalism in the early 1970s during the ethnic tensions between Sindhis and Mohajirs. From there onward, he represents an intriguing account of the organizations and its double-speak regarding its revolutionary ideological rhetoric and practical politics of operating through state institutions. The chapter Jihad Comes to Town relates the story of the large swathes of land that have come under the Taliban influence post 9/11 and how that has disturbed the existing order in the city.Read More →