And any Karachi settler will tell you that the Mohajir card is real.. the only difference is that before Mohajir came up they were referred to has being Indians or coming from India. Ayub Khan is the person who started this with his resettling efforts under Gohar Ayub.. every Urdu Speaker bar a few in the bureaucracy voted for Fatima Jinnah which had pissed him off royally so he wanted to marginalize the community.. The Pathan-Bihari wars of the 60s are proof enough...
It further exacerbated under Bhutto who tried the same but had to pull back after protests in the 70s since he realised that a lot of his base were the educated class which consisted of the migrant families.
Come the 80s under Zia, the community was divided between PPP and JI but Zia played the MQM card to bring down the PPP and other nationalist parties under the impetus of the Bus murder incident. That led to this unassuming APMSO member known as the fat pig rising up.
Ironically, these very mohajirs have run for the military as their savoir an yet decry military operations against themselves.. with the 90's operation using similar tactics as were used in East Pakistan.. which included terrorizing the population using tactics of targeted killings and rape. They also are the first to suck up to the military in times of dictatorships and get their business leadership abilities shining through them.
The current issue is the communities loss of pole position as the leading educated class and after losing dominance in that group feels "marginalized".
This harks back to the original problem of Pakistan, losing its national purpose after its core founding leadership was removed early on.
Then is that really a Pakistan issue or the Pakistani-Mohajir or whomever you call on, issue?
My simple question is this, fine your grand parents moved and migrated. But you did not. So why are you so stuck in the past that you cannot fathom the present and see the future? It's been 67 years god dammit.
It is true that MQM has slept in bed with everyone, including the PPP. But you yourself know that their tactics had been limited to the few seats in the Sindh Assembly and a couple more in NA. I mean, how is it that a 30 year old party finds itself only in Karachi and Hyderabad? and no one else seems to give a single damn...not the Punjabis or Pathans or Balochis or even the Sindhis of the interior.
The issue is, we know very well the mafia culture they brought in. Their extortion collection is better organized than the tax collection of FBR. Their intelligence of the neighborhood is better than ISI operating in the neighborhood of Pakistan. So clearly, it is a systematic setup like no other. But here is the thing, in order to deal with the thugs, you have to be a thug yourself.
Business community in Karachi is actually having a sigh of relief since the Rangers operation began....but more specifically, the operation targeted mostly MQM...right? So why does an operation against MQM lead to a better peace in the city? it happened in the 1990s as well, so that is a two out of two instances.......clearly not the usual 'correlation does not mean causation' type scenarios.
It is only after AH had introduced the thuggery in his ranks that likes of TTP/JI/PPP started doing the same.
Oscar, if you are caught stealing/murdering in the united states of America, do you play the discrimination against Pakistanis card....discrimination against the Muslims card....discrimination against Punjabi/Mohajir (whatever you associate with)....or do you simply acknowledge that what you did was wrong?
Isaac Newton, lived during the time of jahiliat in Europe, yet he made some remarkable discoveries. He was once asked, or as they say, how were you able to think all of this? And Newton replied....'if i have seen further than the others is because i have stood on the shoulders of giants.'
AH clearly isn't one of those Giants.....well physically maybe.