Bagh-e-Jinnah, where Mustafa Kamal held the first mass political gathering of his newly-found Pak Sarzameen Party, is no stranger to such events. The barren piece of land adjacent to the Quaid's mausoleum has become a Hyde Park of sorts for Karachi—a place where political parties flex their muscle by a show of strength in numbers.
But if numbers alone are a criterion for a political party's success, then the numbers on Sunday were not telling. Contrary to Kamal's claim of breaking 'world records', around two to three thousand party members huddled inside a tent that took up one quarter of the ground.
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