When Critique Is Rebranded as Ethnic Betrayal
The backlash followed a familiar script.
If you criticize the Pakistan Peoples Party’s 18-year grip on Sindh, you are not wrong—you are racist.
If you question governance failure, you are not dissenting—you are anti-Sindhi.
If you ask uncomfortable questions, your loyalty is suddenly suspect.
That framing is not new. It has been deployed before—after fires, floods, and collapses—whenever accountability edges too close to power.
Tweets accusing Hashmi of being pro-MQM, anti-Sindhi, or a media pawn flooded timelines, often amplified by party-aligned accounts. Yet few addressed the substance: why does Karachi keep burning, collapsing, drowning, and decaying?
The MQM Ghost Card, Played Again
Invoking Muttahida Qaumi Movement is Karachi’s political nuclear button.
Yes, MQM’s violent past is real.
Yes, its scars remain.
No, every criticism of PPP governance does not automatically resurrect MQM.
Dragging Hashmi’s old jokes, selective clips, or past interviews into today’s grief does not strengthen the argument. It dilutes it.
Historical trauma should not be used as a shield against present-day failure.
Media Platforms Are Not Innocent Either
The charge that Hashmi “used” Geo News for narrative laundering deserves scrutiny—not because it is entirely false, but because it is selectively applied.
Pakistani media routinely platforms one-sided outrage. The issue is not which channel aired a defense. The issue is why institutional collapse becomes a shouting match instead of a reckoning.
