Not assumptions but experience and history. We witnessed a lot from the birth of Pakistan until the events now and are a well connected influence family to have direct info from the source.
I will answer your questions step by step...sure MQM propoganda might be taking a toll on some people memory but that doesnt change the fact. You are unrightfully claiming the credit of 20% who actually contributed to Pakistan over the 80% who only benefitted.
Karachi was established as a major trading hub by the British in 1839..No mohajirs back then. How about the other side of the coin, MQM raising the banner of Mohajir rights completely infested the city with terrorism, no-go zones, criminal activities, kidnapping, murders, loot, plundering and exortion between 1987 - 1992 and completely destroyed the international image of Karachi as well as its forgien investment potential?
So what about the other side of the coin?? Then it was also a muhajir who sold national secrets to Iran, Libya, North-Korea and god knows who not. So back to square one, he was just an economic oppurtunist, the so called 80%. Infact, its a documents fact that he did not bring nuclear tech to Pakistan out of patriotism but for monetory gains. And got paid back more than he could dream for. Excessive pride kills rationality. What you are doing is honking every one with the same stick. Trying to claim the contributions of 20% over 80%. If my brother scored a gold medal in world olympics, that doesnt give me some sort of elevated status ? does it?
And other people are sitting in outback cultivating fields?? Seriously, where did these assumptions came from?? Someone is accusing me of assumption while they are talking their own assumptions? I know most of the industries around Sindh are owned by Mohajirs, some noteable and respected icons are Hamdard foundation, Adamjee groups, etc etc but thats not the case all over Pakistan. There are many enterprising people of all kinds from every corner of Pakistan and they must be respected for their efforts, contribution in terms of tax revenues and jobs for the youth.
Driving a cab or working in a hotel, work is respectable regardless of what is it. Being inflicted with superiorist mentality is not. I can bring you equivalent numbers of ethinic Pakistani majorities working as world class researchers, scientests, doctors, etc etc and an equivalent number of Mohajirs indicted in crime and serving jail time. The deal is yours! Seriously.
I am a Mohajir myself (by MQM definition) because I do not belong to any native ethinic group of Pakistan so may be I hate myself too.. and all my friends and family as well. However, your ridicolus claim calls for a research. The major export industries of Pakistan are now all concentrated in Punjab in part thanks to MQM terrorism. Secondly, Karachi is the only port city Pakistan has so natrually it is the largest contributor in terms of taxes due import / export activities not the largest contributor in GDP. Because all provices are bound to use Karachi port for export, the revenues earned cannot be attributed alone to Karachi. This is where MQM seeks to exploit the gold mine by intentional disinformation and propoganda. Once the gawadar port of fully operations, this dependy will break and Altaf bhai worshippers will be forced to starve. This is the fear behind altaf bhai sympathy diaherria towards corrupt baloch sardars like bugti. I dont hate Mohajirs I hate the MQM political refugees trying to hack Pakistan for economic gains.
Thats why Altaf is a Mohajir in Pakistan but a proud british citizen in london. This is the epictome of "refugee" mentality and identity crises which has become evident. If you have soo much love, please come forward and contribute. Dont go around supporting a criminal party whose activities are terrorism, exortion, ransom and gun running.
Altaf: I am proud to serve the divide and rule agenda of my British master.
Debate calls for sane headness, rationality, facts and figures. It cannot be held on the lines of party propoganda and agenda.
Over the years, the oppurtunist got infested with refugee mindest. They came to prosper economically and thats about it. The continously detrioating political situation between India and Pakistan closed the gates of re-migration to India. The frustation boiled up and exploded in a form of MQM. The whole of MQM agenda was they wanted economic prosperity for granted. They are overly infested with false pride and have hijacked my indentity and tarnished my reputation for their own political gains.
Altaf Hussian comes from a similar low-educated lot who came to Pakistan for economic gains and employment. He spent most of his time and grew up in his brother government service quarter. The very government, he would then come to challenger for not giving employment to Mohajirs. There are no evidences to support that his family were higher than thou qualified or commanded any academic or scientific might. All is know is that his grandfather, Mufti Ramzan Hussain was reowned scholar of Agra (UP). and Altaf own father was just a railway station master in pre-partition India. A lot of scientefic contribution to new born state of Pakistan, year right. The academic background of Mr Altaf family itself does not warrant any high paying job neither any kind of scientefic or academic contribution towards state.
Source:
MQM - Karachi Tanzeemi Committee
These are the reason why political migrants and refugees in other countries are not settled in major metroplitan cities. Looks up the case of Palestinean refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia or stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh. There aint MQM in Bangladesh as of yet.
My grandfather (dada) who can be considered neutral because he was an English man witnessed the birth of Pakistan right from 14th August 1947 and all the unfolding events following it. He was invitied by the GOP to offer his banking expertise and played a founding role in major financial institutions of Pakistan including the State Bank of Pakistan and NBP. Almost 90% of my family works in Insurance and Banking sectors across Pakistan, Bahrain, Oman and Libya. We have extensive ties to banking and insurance colgermates of Pakistan. In his diaries somewhere around early 1957, upon the signing of trade accords between India and Pakistan, wrote about the corruption and nepotism of oppurtunist people inviting and settling their releatives on religious grounds and unrightfully capitalizing on employments generated in Pakistan. He also wrote about the incompetency of Pakistan government in promoting employment for its indigenious ethinic groups and how the situation could turn into an ethic war if it were to implode. Few decades later, it all came out to be truth.