The New class structure of Karachi Politics

The Biggest and most populated port city of Pakistan always had been divided into three classes. The upper class,the lower class and the middle class.In the Past few general elections MQM or the Mutahida Quomi Movement emerged as the main representative of  the Middle and lower class and was seen as working against the upper class and non urdu speaking lower class represented by Pakistan Peoples Party (ppp) or the pressure groups.
      I don't want to go into the details but the forces that forced the two main opposing,almost belligerent  parties to work together and sit in the cabinet to form a coalition government may be working on a very different line now. In the absence of any reproducible evidence and election result data it is not possible to estimate the change that has come about in the political thinking of the people in the past four and a half years of democratic rule.The MQM's vote bank may have shifted from mainly middle class urdu speaking as the educated middle class is now the lower class in karachi but probably it has increased.The upper middle class and upper class is emerging as an elitist multiple nationality class looking hopefully towards the charismatic personality of  former cricketer and social worker Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf .

Peoples Party's strategy to walk in MQM's shoes has failed miserably to put a dent in the popularity of MQM infact it has made PTi and MQM more sympathetic towards eachother. I wont be surprised if they worked closely and helped eachother in the next election also to please the US and British western alliance that is openly supporting both.