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Actually I borrowed that term from Selig Harrison's analysis on merging FATA with NWFP etc - my usage of the word was not meant to imply 'ghetto's' - large parts of Pakistan are settled on the basis of tribes, so you would have a particular Pashtun or Punjabi tribes in certain areas, which is what I was getting at."enclaves", eh? Says a lot there. We've ghettos too. However, we've also social mobility in each ethnicity that suggests there are roadmaps to leave such and, increasingly, the financial means to do so.
Social mobility is not restricted - ask Rescue Ranger (whose family operates a transportation company) for example. The historical large representation in the military, including the officer corps, has also played its part in that.
Former Army Chiefs, AQ Khan etc.
The Pashtun are successful in almost every aspect of Pakistani society.
The Ghettoes are all you Americans!
As I said, tensions exist as they do in any such State, and so long as the GoP and provincial governments do not deliver on development and the economy, they will be hard to minimize.Well, I haven't yet reached judgement as I don't know enough and likely never will such to draw anything more than anecdotal observations. I also, though, haven't seen any comparable actions on our part during, say, Hurricane Katrina. I don't know the figures of those displaced from New Orleans but the city and much of the outlying areas were severely affected. A million? Don't know but temporary or permanent resettlement has been nationwide without restriction and we'll only know a portion of such as many fell on private resources.
I agree with you that the decisions taken by the GoPu and GoS are pathetic and go against the spirit we wish to see, but that they come as a shock to most of us here should be indicative that at they are not broadly reflected at a people to people level.
You also have to keep in mind that affected people from the NWFP have been moving and settling in the major cities, especially Karachi, for a while now.
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