Yaaar rolaiii ga kiyaaa ubbb ?
Khair jokes aside, why do you think there exist, or at least I've felt it to exist,
a disparity in the attitudes of the Gujrati, Bihari, Hyderabadi Pakistanis in Karachi & adjoining areas when compared with their kinsmen, in an ethnic sense, settled in the rest of the country, when it comes to identifying themselves as 'Muhajirs' or otherwise ?
In my view, it has to do with politics and power plays. After all, these attitudes were a lot less during the initial formative years since the spirit of a new country was still fresh. The problem began with the attitude of the brown "sahibs"(Of which many of these
Mohajirs were part and participle with the Punjabi/Pathan) with the Bengalis as the sidelining of one race but a combined majority got the other's(poitical leaders) worried as to what a majority might do to them if they become the new target. Gohar Ayub's movement of Pathans into Karachi to bolster the political front against Fatima Jinnah also had its consequences as many of these new settlers were the criminal element from FATA and other places brought in to disrupt Fatima Jinnah's mandate who had a lot more appeal within the Punjabis and Migrants than the other races. Bhutto did the same with Sindhi nationalism in 73.. whole of the Karachi Urdu speaking class swarmed the Quaid Mausoleum against it and that created those tensions.
Long story short, the issue is with political power.. Sindhis in Karachi want their power bloc, the Pathans do.. the Urdu-Speakers do .. why? because they have the numbers to exert power and make things go their way. Simple.
Why it hasnt happened in places like Pindi or Lahore? Because the migrants are still in a minority as such and have no political ambitions as such.
Is there not such bigotry and racism in those areas? yes there is.. I have been called an Indian by clerks at tellers.. and Army Captains alike.. some in jest.. others true.
I have seen racism in Peshawar as well, extreme sort..
but where I have seen that .. I have seen the opposite as well.. the same goes for Karachi.
The question is not why people call themselves(or are called) Mohajirs.. but why such elements that exploit these lines exist and are allowed to breed.
As a common person the equation is simple . Ask me who I am.. Ill tell you I am a Pakistani with my ancestors from UP.. The Pakistani is where my loyalty is... and UP is where my culture is(or was).
Call me an Indian, a non-son of the soil.. and Ill tell you how your race(whoever it was) was not even considered literate enough by the British and unfit for independence... My loyalty hasn't changed yet..do I believe in what I said? maybe not.. But now I hate you and wish you harm...and have no qualms about making such statements.
The same can be said when Urdu-speakers whisper among themselves "He wont get it... he's a P"..or "Kya pathan aadmi hai"..
Its simple tribal , racial psychology.