You are absolutely right. This ethnic identity is fake and imposed. By who? By people like rockstar and other so-called muhajirs themselves not as they claim by Punjabis, Sindhis, Balochs, Afghans, Americans, aliens or the moon.
I have discussed exactly what you are saying in this thread:
Split Discussion: Muhajir Identity | Page 8
In some of the posts I have labelled the flaws of this ethnic identity. My people come from Lucknow (which should have gone to Pakistan) and have links to other parts as well. It is not true that others want to call us muhair or treat us different. In fact it is the opposite. The Sindhis particularly want us to integrate and merge as Sindhis.
You will notice a strange situation when you see that the muhajirs who settled in Pakhtunkhwa after partition became Pashtuns, the ones in Punjab (mostly) Punjabis and the ones in Balochistan Balochs but the ones who came to Karachi adopted this identity-the identity of muhajirs or urdu speakers. You might have heard of a man Faiz Muhammed Baloch with a similar story (but migrated from Iranian balochistan) <He sang the song yeh Pakistan hamara>. Anyway so why and where did we, the ones who came in Sindh go wrong? + Do note that Jinnah too wanted us to merge within the local fabric. He wanted us to merge as Pakistanis and if they needed another identity too Sindis in Sindh, Balochs in Balochistan, Punjabis in Punjab etc.
One of the reasons that we failed to integrate was that a very large amount of Muhajirs (40% of the population of Karachi is so-called Muhajir even though I hate that term.) settled in Karachi. With limited interaction with the Sindhis (who make up less than 10% of Karachi's population) we spread and dominated the country but we never tried to merge with the Sindhis or learn their language-obviously this was our flaw. The other problem was the psyche of muhajirs. When you see a man like Altaf Hussain asking for panah in India and calling the partition the biggest blunder in the history of mankind it is an insult on every one of us who came only and only because he believed in Pakistan, it becomes clear that racism has permeated the very soul of our elders and they refuse to think about Pakistan first.
Now I would like to introduce you to my real culture. My real culture is lucknowi. My fathers side has dishes like the Kakori Kebab my mothers side a tasty mouth watering pulao and is known for hospitality, aap janab. Anyway? Why am I mentioning this? Partition was done and these areas went to India. Why am bringing a dead horse back to life. Because these regions should have gone to Pakistan. Imagine this.
If the Muslims of so called India, were to join Pakistan in an assault on India what a huge advantage it would be. We would not even have to move a finger and half the fighting would be done by muslims like in my state UP. We failed to merge the people there and our family members that. This was another failure of us muhajirs. Anyway I notice I am digressing from the crux.
So I propose 2 solutions for the muhajir or urdu speaker problem, both terms I hate. One is for them to either reclaim their original culture (Each muhajir has a different culture eg Lucknowi, Bihari, Deccan etc as they came from different parts now captured and controlled by India for example operation polo)... this will not make them Indian but will only solidify our link to these places which should have gone to Pakistan. The bonds with muslims left there can help Pakistan in a rebellion. Both my parents were born in Lucknow but are proud Pakistanis as is my grandfather from fathers side. My grandfather from my mothers side married all his daughters to Pakistanis.
The second solution I propose is for us to merge with the ethnic groups within Pakistan which I believe is a better option. I tried this myself. Zama num Havi Sultan de aw za wannabe Pashtun yam. lol. It was also what Jinnah wanted of us.
So there is no such thing as urdu speaker or muhajir. We are either lucknowites or Pashtuns/Sindhis/Balochs/GB's etc or we are Hyderabadis, Lucknowis, Biharis etc. What we need is Muhajirs themselves to introduce themselves as such. The muhajir word, and identity (includes even the urdu speaker identity) will then disappear and dissipate. Do check out the link and you will notice my views on the topic. I have discussed it infinitely.