haviZsultan
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I think once we abandon our terrorist organizations like the MQM we should look at our identity more critically. This comes in stages. If we are in the first stage where we are simply incapable of realizing the fact that a muhajir can and sometimes may do something bad we will obviously have problems with the subsequent phases.This whole 'Mohajir' ethnicity is bullshyt, nothing else. It was taught to them by none other than Altaf Hussain that somehow they were being ridiculed and out caste. It was part of their politics. Just like the Pathans of KPK, the Balochs of the Balochistan, the Punjabis and Sindhis...everyone tries to tap into their own ethnic vote bank.
I mean the word 'Mohajir' means someone who migrates....a migrant. Can some mohajir please tell me that when both my paternal and maternal grandparents left India and everything they had, and moved to Pakistan, why weren't they called mohajir? While these Urdu speakers had the liberty to caste themselves into a separate group.
What a joke. Not once have i seen my parents or grandparents complain of anything.
My view is that the Pashtuns are muhajirs in Karachi. The Baloch are Muhajirs in Sindh and Punjabis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. All of us definately moved from somewhere. Yet we have adopted the identity called muhajir? Why do we even need this identity and what is our real culture. For example my real culture is Lucknowi, not muhajir. I wear a Lucknowi starch kurta, I eat the Kakori kabab (fathers side) and have little or possibly nothing in common with a another muhajir who is from Hyderabad Delhi or Madras... then how are we all muhajirs but a man from Punjab becomes my enemy.
I am personally sick of the identity MQM has established for us and how it has divided us from the rest of the country, especially on ethnic lines. We must bridge the gap between our ethnicities or I fear we will become another Rwanda.