MQM was established to counter Sindhi nationalists: Beg

[Pakistani E]

Sorry To bumpin?
But If only iron cuts iron, poison kills poison?
Then you needed a political party which can defuse both secular PPP & it's Sindhi nationalist card?
MQM has done all of it, & has figures Sindhi hegemony more then any one else?

But it doesn't make sense, PPP was never strong in urban Sindh. And making a Muhajir Nationalist movement is not going to have a very large following in interior Sindh is it? So how PPP going to get weak? Or the Sindhi Nationalist?

Urban Sindh always tilted towards Pro federalists or Religious parties. Both of whom are beneficial to the establishment. It just seems incredibly stupid of the establishment to create something which is very obviously not going to be in its favour.

 

[insight-out]

Well, the most prominent figure of Sindhi nationalism was GM Syed, whose goal was secession from Pakistan. What is Sindh without Karachi? No major metropolis, no industry, no coastal line to speak of. Creating MQM effectively blocked the Sindhi nationalists from ever having a viable country of their own.

I am not saying that what Gen. Beg is saying is true. But it does make sense.