AUz
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You mean to tell me that funds generated from Karachi do not belong to Karachi? By that logic crops harvested in Punjab don't belong to Punjab, right?
Funds generated in Karachi would be taxed by the government. Tax revenues would be distributed all over Pakistan. Furthermore, just because the funds are created in Karachi, does not mean people get to use all of that in Karachi. Some national company can have operations all over Pakistan, but headquarters in Karachi. And all the revenue data comes to Karach HQ. Does it mean all the revenue was generated in karachi? No, even though in accounting terms, Karachi would be shown as having home to all that revenue.
We DO elect MQM, let us live with our decision, why do you have to impose your decisions on us? Nobody in Karachi demands ALL the funds, we just want our due share, given to the local government. You are Punjabi right? We have Baloch, Siraiki, Sindhi, Paktun etc., why can't you accept Mohajirs?
You can elect MQM trillion times. Nobody cares. What the rest of us care about is exortion, blackmailing, gang wars, targetting killing, and terrorism that MQM does. THAT is a problem.
An MQM that does not do any of that would be welcomed.
Secondly, Sindhi, Pakhtun etc are centuries old ethnic identities.....but "mohajirs" is no identity. Are you freaking refugee?! That's what mohajir means.
My grand parents also migrated from india---but we don't call ourselves mohajirs because even though my dada was a 'mohajir'---I am not.
Similarly, it is horrendous that people born and raised in Pakistan keep calling themselves "mohajirs"
But in our own country, we can have a separate identity right? And rape for MQM? that's a new one even for me, and I have heard so many of them. You have your Gullu Butts and your Model Towns, we have ours. Let us focus on our problems instead of invading each other's problems.
Offcourse, you can have your own identity but try not to put your ethnic identity ABOVE ALL AND EVERYTHING ELSE. Because other peoples in Pakistan do not do that generally. So you folks stand out in a very negative manner.
Secondly, don't equate gullu butts with organized extortion rings, raw-affiliated armed-to-teeth gang armies, and openly calling for breaking of Pakistan.
PML(N) is corrupt as f*ck...but MQM has proven to be more of a national security threat than any other party out there.
We do have something in common, we like Musharraf too. If you like him, you should trust his instincts and decisions on Karachi and MQM. Perhaps you Punjabis have not had to use ethnic terms because you are the dominant ethnicity and enjoy its merits above all others. But there you had to go and ruin a normal argument with the spitting thing, inherently I think you have a problem.
We are not the 'dominant' ethnicity. Punjabis are significantly poorer, less urbanized, less educated, and less wealthy than "Urdu speaking community".....so where does this 'dominant' thing comes in?
It's just that Punjabis generally are very open people--thanks to village environment I guess? People generally do not see others in terms of ethnicities and all. But due to behavior of some people who put ethnicty above all...you might see punjab turning more ethno-centric---and that'll be the biggest danger to our Islamic Republic.
Merit, nothing sounds better. But where is the merit when we have had the quota system since the past 40 years and it is still going strong.
As I said above to another poster...quota issue is Sindh's internal issue. Pakistan, Punjab, and anyone else has nothing to do with it.
It's MQM vs PPP issue---and both of them are worst of the worst parties in the country
I think I have explained our concerns more than enough times, its better if we get encouragement and assistance rather than ridicule and bad mouthing.
Let the full results of census come out--and hopefully then many things can be clarified. Officials responsible for the census should be question and should explain all questions and concerns on the television...so the situation is clarified.