The conclusion from this thread: Pakistanis dont like to hear that racism exists in their country (I found them cheering when India was labeled as very racist country). The author of blog is Punjabi , so he is talking from Punjab's perspective, it doesnt mean xenophobia and racism against Pashtuns doesn't exist in Sindh and Kashmir. In my personal opinion, Karachi is at the top of list in racism and hostility against Pashtuns, also historically speaking the racist stereotypes about Pashtuns grew in the region around Delhi and UP in 18th century, from there it spreads to other regions through Urdu language. The culprits were Mughals and elite ashrafia of that belt, who were shaken up from external and internal attacks and turbulence of war-like Pashtuns. Sikhs also devastated the Delhi and Doab in 18th century, so they were also gifted with certain stereotypes through power of pen.
The Persian nobility of Awadh in 18th century had the official policy of eradicating Pashtun presence from U.P and for that Asif-Daula even sought the help of Jats and Marathas against Bangash as well as Rohillas. Bangashs under Ahmad Khan even occupied Awadh for some a some time and laid waste the country in revenge of destruction of their own state by combined power of Awadh, Jats and Marathas. Asif-ul-daula was able to recover his country and with the help of Marthas he defeated both Rohilla and bangash afghans, pushing them towards jungles of kumaon. The Afghans families in jungles would have been starved to death in siege by Marathas, Mughals and awadh, if Abdali had not invaded from west in 1752. His son Shuja-ud-daula adopted dual policy but at the end sought help of East India company to eradicate Rohilla power in Doab. Lucknow became centre of U.P and thus they dedicated the image of "pathans" through their literature.
The conclusion from this thread: Pakistanis dont like to hear that racism exists in their country (I found them cheering when India was labeled as very racist country). The author of blog is Punjabi , so he is talking from Punjab's perspective, it doesnt mean xenophobia and racism against Pashtuns doesn't exist in Sindh and Kashmir. In my personal opinion, Karachi is at the top of list in racism and hostility against Pashtuns, also historically speaking the racist stereotypes about Pashtuns grew in the region around Delhi and UP in 18th century, from there it spreads to other regions through Urdu language. The culprits were Mughals and elite ashrafia of that belt, who were shaken up from external and internal attacks and turbulence of war-like Pashtuns. Sikhs also devastated the Delhi and Doab in 18th century, so they were also gifted with certain stereotypes through power of pen.
The Persian nobility of Awadh in 18th century had the official policy of eradicating Pashtun presence from U.P and for that Asif-Daula even sought the help of Jats and Marathas against Bangash as well as Rohillas. Bangashs under Ahmad Khan even occupied Awadh for some a some time and laid waste the country in revenge of destruction of their own state by combined power of Awadh, Jats and Marathas. Asif-ul-daula was able to recover his country and with the help of Marthas he defeated both Rohilla and bangash afghans, pushing them towards jungles of kumaon. The Afghans families in jungles would have been starved to death in siege by Marathas, Mughals and awadh, if Abdali had not invaded from west in 1752. His son Shuja-ud-daula adopted dual policy but at the end sought help of East India company to eradicate Rohilla power in Doab. Lucknow became centre of U.P and thus they dedicated the image of "pathans" through their literature.
I don't agree man, Karachi is the most diverse city of Pakistan with 5 million Pashtuns, just ask Shahid Afridi, he's a proud Karachiite and wouldn't move anywhere else, he even lives in a Urdu-speaking dominant area called Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
Karachi is a very big city home to 20 million people, there are many bad areas in the city but also good areas too, where i live in south karachi, in my neighborhood I have 3 wealthy Pashtun families nearby and i have gotten to know many pashtuns studying here, my own Quran teacher when I was a kid was a Pashtun lady from Mardan, they have rarely have problems, this area falls under NA250 and we voted for PTI, I would say the parts of Karachi that are safe for Pukhtuns are DHA,Clifton,Malir,Saddar,PECHS,Bahadurabad,Karsaz and parts of Gulshan, but once you go north into the Federal B Areas and Orangi/kuti pahari then it gets dangerous, that's where MQM has it's stronghold, there also areas where Pukhtuns have mafias and harass non Pashtuns, those areas are Sohrab Goth,Pukhtunabad,Saadi town,kuty pahari(they live on a mountain) and other such areas, these areas we avoid going, then there are Baloch areas such as Lyari,Hub,Kemari etc that are very dangerous are rife with gangs and even presence of BLA there, so not all of karachi is racist or dangerous, it's a big city with multi-dimensional ways of crime and racism, if you stick to the nice areas then you shouldn't ever have any issues.
Source:I lived the past 10 years in karachi, know the city fairly well.
Ethnic map of Karachi
I am from FB area, like I said every street has quite a few punjabis
FB areas has few punjabis, if you come to DHA/Clifton then you will find punjabis everywhere
