I hardly have any love for ANP. But still for the record at that Time there was NO ANP so no question of ANP being against creation of Pakistan. Though Ghafar wanted to Pukhtuns to be independent or join Afghanistan BUT We Pukhtuns voted for joining Pakistan which proves our loyalities to our country Pakistan.
2. MQM migrated to save Pakistan ???????//// My foot that too the left one.
The opportunists stayed back in India but when they realised they have NO value there they came to Pakistan and here they have occupied the entire Karachi making the real natives helpless against their criminal activities.
There is INDEED NO comparison between Pukhtuns who joined Pakistan and MQM traitors who's leader have burnt Pakistani flag and who said in India that creation of Pakistan was wrong.
OH yeh lolz so now you want a separate province but on the basis of what ????????
Sindhis, Balochis, Pukhtuns, Punjabis, Gilgitis have their own provinces because they are natives of those areas since thousands of years. Tell me how can migrants demand a province on the basis of language only ??????
From where you should be handed over entire area so that you could play a provincial card ??
If you want Karachi the economic hub of Pakistan and back bone as a province for MQM so that MQM could separate it and damage Pakistan then well Sorry your idea is flawed in the first place.
And last but not the least YOU DO NOT share Sindh with Sindhis rather Sindhis are sharing their prime capital with you.
You should be thankful for that.
As much as I want this thread to end,
Our much vaunted Quaid-e Azam.. was himself a migrant, the son of a Gujrati Businessman who till his last breath kept repeating his love for Bombay. The freedom struggle originated in the areas which are now part of India, and it is from there the fire spread. Otherwise most of the area that is KP was content to be left alone as a buffer province and till the very late 40's was a congress stronghold as recorded in every history book which did not have Ayub Khans blessing.
Secondly, Do you speak urdu??.. if you do you are an urdu speaker..lets define that term there and then.
My Grand Parents were migrants, my great grand father were very close family friends with the Nehru family. Yet My grandfather served the PN for 30 years and was responsible for the navigational planning of the attack on Dwarka and went on to represent Pakistan at th UN..would you prefer calling his efforts lesser than somebody who was from Punjab or KP??.. should the nation be grateful for his services or should my family be eternally thanking Sindhi's,Punjabi's,Pathans,Balochi's for letting us stay in Pakistan and not pushing us out to sea?
By questioning their right to be in Pakistan, you are questioning the very need for Pakistan to exist.
The demand for a separate province comes from a few idiots, similar idiots ask for Sindhustra as well.
The antagonism between Pukhtoons and Migrants and decendants of Migrants is a result of Gohar Ayub's land grabbing spree back in the 60's in which he enlisted the services of all the pithy criminals of the Pushtoon. MQM's rise to power, for all the massive stories and political agendas and what not. Was still spurred on by a simple incident.. which was mishandled by authorities and got out of hand.
The movement was beneficial at first.. and still has its benefits, but the Hijacking of the movement by Altaf Hussain has the establishments hand in it and other agencies.
But this does not belie the fact that the MQM has been very helpful to its community, while at the same time being very damaging as well due to its extortionist and criminal wing.
Coming to the recent target killings, yes they were targeted, and yes the MQM triggered it specifically to take on ANP backed land-grabbers who were harboring criminals who I had the unfortunate luck to encounter in DHA. These men were targeting other ethnic groups in attacks aimed mainly to steal money, cars and mobiles.
A MQM man was hit in a similar fashion.. and target killing, while unlawful, is the best practice when the police is ineffective or cannot be used.
This has been done in the past, will be done today, and will go on into the future.
If it fuels hatred, let it be, it simmers down after a while.
If one cannot provide protection to its citizens then everybody will take up arms. I do not support it, but will not condemn it simply because I myself have been the victim of criminals from the Pushtoon community in Karachi, in posh and downtrodden areas.. not once.. not twice.. but thrice.
And all three times I was given the pathan superiority line and threatened with dire consequences if I said that I was attacked by Pathans.
This has not made me anti-pathan, but I am anti criminal, and if criminals are fighting each other and getting killed..even with innocents hit.. I cannot help but keep quiet.
Funny though, the only community that never mentioned who I was, and who my father was, are the Baloch.
Otherwise, I have heard the pithy "Urdu-speaking" and "mohajir" mockery from every other group.
I apologise if I hurt any feelings, but I mine were hurt as well.
And for the record, I was born in Karachi, Sindh.
Therefore I consider myself a Sindhi..albeit one who speaks urdu as well.