My point still stands. It was nowhere near as developed as it is now. It had a seaport, granted. However, it didn't have any of the factories that make it a strong industrial base for the country now
The fact that it had an airport ( one of the first in British India ) demonstrates that Karachi was not just a fishing village. Please do some research. It was a significant trading city in British India. There are plenty of grand British colonial buildings in Karachi, the Brits., would not have built these in Karachi if it had been just a non descript fishing village. The affluent Parsi community was there because of trading nature of the city.
The British conquered Sindh. The brave Sindhi's fought a desperate battle of Miani under their leader Mir of Talpur and lost 50,000 men before coming under British rule. Soon after Sindh was appended with the Bombay Presidency. However after considerable effort by Sindhi's the British agreed to separate Sindh in 1936 like it had been before in 1843. I am sure people have heard of the Hur rebellion.
Karachi is blessed by geography to be a trading hub for all of Pakistan, Indian Punjab and Central Asia. The British conquerer of Sindh in 1843, Charles Napier recognized the unique location of Karachi when he said "You will yet be glory of the East;Would that I could come again,to see you in your grandeur."
Truthseer why do you keep using 1947 as the base point? Karachi had been expanding ever since the rail link was established. When you compare Karachi today with 1947 do you consider that every other city has also developed since 1947. Lahore, Jhelum, Rawalpindi, Wah etc have also developed. How many factories were in Gujranawala or Sialkot in 1947? Why do you assume there would have ben no development without the Mohajir's?
Let us leave all this though. Let no one group brag about education etc.The thread title is about 'Mohajir sooba. I am dead against such a proposition. I agree and would support Punjab being split up. Punjab is too big and breaking it up into at least three proviinces would be a good idea.
However division of Sindh would be a
unmitigated disaster for Pakistan. The reason is the Sindhi's whose land it was in 1843 before the British came, whose land it was in 1947 when they
voted to join Pakistan never reckoned on becoming a minority in their city Karachi. But sadly for themselves they in effect voted themselves into becoming a minority in Karachi.
This is a source of resentment to the Sindhi's. Any such large scale population displacement anywhere in the world has led to bloodbath. The Jews have done that to the Palestinians. Today the population of Sindh is almost 40 million, majority of which is still Sindhi. The Sindhi ruling class ( Wadera etc ) have been bought out. The Sindhi have been kept backward. Ignorance is bliss.
But you try to break up their land and in effect give it over to the Mohajir's you will set of civil war that will make Balochistan troubles look like nursery fight. What the Mohajir's have to understand is that Sindh province is Sindhi. You can't expect to take part of their land away because they gave you refuge in 1947.
This could lead to break up of Pakistan. In Pakistan we really have to start acknowledging provincial rights. Just look across the border in India. It is a country far more diverse than we are. It has chosen to respect each state, even accord the language of each state as a official language of that state. They have managed to create a reasonably stable Indian Union by respecting the differant states.
Somebody mentioned about the Hindu Sindhi's being assimilated into India. Well can you ask the Indian members here if
1) Have the Sindhi Hindus taken over Kolkata? Or Mumbai? Or Chennai? Or Amritsar?
2) Then ask them if they had and then foisted their language on the local people, then wanted to draw a new boundary so that they would be majority within that boundary would the locals have accepted that?
I want to make it clear that I don't have any personal connection with this subject. I am neither a Sindhi or Mohajir. I have been only once to Karachi and personally was not impressed. All I saw was slums and my feeling was I at least I don't need to go to India because of all sort of people from all parts of india who are found in Karachi. Oh I found that paan spitting habit by the Bihari's disgusting.I much preferred Muzzafarabad even if it is considered 'backward' by people..