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Sindh has some serious issues and PPP, Murad, MQM, Altaf Bhai are the symptoms of that. The real issue is the Mohajir/Sindhi, urban/rural divide which of courses throws up the symptoms. The reality is mass migration from India into Sindh failed to integrate. That failure of integration has created deep divides in Sindhi polity which of course feeds the politics that you see played out in that province. And Murad/Altaf Bhai are the symptoms of that structural malaise at the heart of Sindh.

I am reminded of Northern Ireland in UK which suffers from similar problems despite being part of one of the worlds most prosperous, mature, competent states in the world. I am reminded of this as my daughter who is doing masters in higher education policy has just come back from Belfast after a stint there at Queens University Belfast as part of her research into the education system there and issues revolving around the divide they have. Listening to her 'on the ground report' was interesting as it painted a picture far worse then UK media covers. But I thought perhaps the same sociological issues are playing out in Sindh as well.

Perhaps a ethnic Sindhi can give some input. Sindh for me is the least understood part of Pakistan. Sindh has probably one of the most glorious history in South Asia but today it seems to be struggling. The Sindhi's fight against the British invasion in 1843 and their subsequent defeat at Battle of Miani which led them to being enslaved as part of British India is truely inspiring.

Yet today Sindhi people seem to be a dormant quantity. That puzzles me.
 
I THOUGHT SOUTH ASIANS WERE LOSING INTEREST IN CRICKET. MANY 90s KIDS WOULD TELL YOU. TILL 2010, THEY WERE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT CRICKET. NOT ANY MORE.
 
I THOUGHT SOUTH ASIANS WERE LOSING INTEREST IN CRICKET. MANY 90s KIDS WOULD TELL YOU. TILL 2010, THEY WERE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT CRICKET. NOT ANY MORE.
Lose interest in Cricket? Are u even serious?
 
Sindh has some serious issues and PPP, Murad, MQM, Altaf Bhai are the symptoms of that. The real issue is the Mohajir/Sindhi, urban/rural divide which of courses throws up the symptoms. The reality is mass migration from India into Sindh failed to integrate. That failure of integration has created deep divides in Sindhi polity which of course feeds the politics that you see played out in that province. And Murad/Altaf Bhai are the symptoms of that structural malaise at the heart of Sindh.

I am reminded of Northern Ireland in UK which suffers from similar problems despite being part of one of the worlds most prosperous, mature, competent states in the world. I am reminded of this as my daughter who is doing masters in higher education policy has just come back from Belfast after a stint there at Queens University Belfast as part of her research into the education system there and issues revolving around the divide they have. Listening to her 'on the ground report' was interesting as it painted a picture far worse then UK media covers. But I thought perhaps the same sociological issues are playing out in Sindh as well.

Perhaps a ethnic Sindhi can give some input. Sindh for me is the least understood part of Pakistan. Sindh has probably one of the most glorious history in South Asia but today it seems to be struggling. The Sindhi's fight against the British invasion in 1843 and their subsequent defeat at Battle of Miani which led them to being enslaved as part of British India is truely inspiring.

Yet today Sindhi people seem to be a dormant quantity. That puzzles me.

During the British rule most of educated and wealthy elite were Hindus not Sindhi Muslims, after the partition Hindus left which left a massive brain drain in Sindh and that was filled by the educated Indian Muslims who came from various ethnicity and regions themselves but were untied by their language mother tongue Urdu and its dialects.

The reason for that is that Sindhi Muslim resistance was crushed by the British, one of their most famous leader was killed and then his son taken back to UK to be educated/brainwashed to become servants of the British empire. Ever since that Sindhi people haven't really recovered, while the Brits are gone but now the Sindhis have to deal with PPP-Bhuttos and their allied feudal lords who pretty much rule over rural Sindh however they like, these same Sindhi feudal lords also from time to time use the nationalist card to hype up hatred against Urdu Speakers because they want to control Karachi and its wealth.
 

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