On May 12, as luck would have it, one sees the headline in press, MQM Quaid Altaf Hussain would unveil the real account of May 12, 2007. I think this charade of We did nothing is just too much to stomach. I ask Mr Altaf Hussain that was a call not made from Islamabad to London asking that the CJ should not get the kind of reception he got in Lahore? And did he not, then, instruct Nine Zero to comply? At the end of it all, we know Shaukat Aziz actually phoned Altaf Hussain to thank him for a job well done (General Mirza Aslam Beg, Nation May 18, 2007). The Governor, then, took over the city and spelled out the plan; 1. No opposition party to reach Karachi airport. 2. This will automatically put an end to any cavalcade accompanying the CJ back to the Sindh High Court Bar (which is what Musharraf wanted). Wasim Akhtar was, then, put in charge of how that was to be managed. MQM says their procession included women and children so how can they be charged with aggressive design? I think this rally was never meant to clash with the opposition rallies. This was a subterfuge for the later propaganda. The real task of stopping the opposition in its tracks was in the hands of weapon-wielding MQM activists who were clearly seen all over the city roads. And they made no attempt to hide their faces. Backed as they were by the Home Minister and Governor, why would they hide their faces, it was their city? The opposition workers were thoroughly frustrated in failing to get past these gun men, not to mention the obstacles of dead bodies lying around them. They had no help from the Rangers (you know where the Rangers were) and none from the disarmed Police either. Altaf Hussain would be best advised not to open his mouth. Wasim Akhtar, the Home Minister of Sindh, himself gave the game away when he said, Every time you come out to receive your CJ, we will also come out. Come out? Come out for what? To watch 'you going to the airport or to stop 'you? This is as clear an admission of the real MQM intentions on May 12, 2007 as any you are ever going to get. Here we are with 50 murders done on that day and the MQM got away with them and it is sitting pretty in assembles, both in centre and the province. -KHURSHID ANWER, Lahore, May 12.