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UNHCR Report:: The MQM-A allegedly raises funds through extortion, narcotics smuggling, and other criminal activities. In addition, Mohajirs in Pakistan and overseas provide funds to the MQM-A through charitable foundations (Jane's 14 Feb 2003).

....Mohajir Quami Movement (MQM) and their opponents were responsible for a large number of killings in Karachi...

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Running Karachi - from London (Telegraph)

By Isambard Wilkinson in Karachi and Damien McElroy

Last Updated: 1:46am BST 15/05/2007

The man in charge of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, was at his usual command-and-control post at the weekend: a sofa in north London.

As his fiefdom descended into brutal violence, with the deaths of at least 40 people reported amid the worst political bloodshed Pakistan has witnessed in years, Altaf Hussain directed his followers by telephone from a safe place more than 5,000 miles away.