Altaf Hussain calls for separate province/country?

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Re: Altaf Hussain calls for separate province/country?

@Khan4Life

Obviously I was not born so the posters also but speak confidently about those times so am I through what I read and heard.
Nationalization brought many businesses run by Urdu speaking under govt badge and then the quota system and yes I agree that it was implied by Liaquat Ali Khan and enjoyed by both migrants and Punjabi’s except Sindhis and then ZAB increased the qouta for local Sindhis which was a fair decision but reduced the seats for migrants along with applied Sindhi official language, so all these events together arouse resentment among Urdu speakings. Qouta system never meant to be the permanent solution to provide jobs to people of rural areas but to educate them and what’s happening now is a matric pass who has contacts in govt and have a domicile of interior Sindh will be preferred over a karachiite who’s much more educated. How many non Sindhis you find nowadays sitting at executive positions in govt institutions? Just a handful of them, right, so is it fair comparing the Urdu speaking population?
It’s not about hatred to Sindhi language but why would one learn if you don’t need to. Same like my friend who’s a Punjabi but born and bred in Karachi don’t know how to speak Punjabi but my other friend’s father who’s a an Urdu speaking but born and brought up in interior Sindh before moving to Karachi is fluent in Sindhi but not his kids. So it all depends on the need of language not the hatred.

You were not born and write what you heard from other guys. What if other guys were also not born and writing lies here? Your other argument about nationalzation of industries of Urdu speaking which affected the jobs are also based on lies and incorrect.

Read history before you write something which is not based on truth. Here is the history of quota system. I was also not born but I don’t believe the bull****ers racists here. I normally go back to the history and try to find neutral sources rather than biased subjective liars whose all information is normally based on hatred.

However not observing the system honestly by people in power is another story.

Quota System in Pakistan

http://www.paklinks.com/gs/pakistan-affairs/634426-altaf-hussain-calls-for-separate-province-country-7.html

****I have found some very interesting facts about quota system in Pakistan which are quite contrary to the propaganda among the masses. Most of the information is taken from “Affirmative action Policies in Pakistan,” by Mohammed Wasim and “Policies of Ethnic Preference in Pakistan,” by Charles H. Kennedy (Professor, Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University).
Generally it is believed that quota system in Pakistan was introduced by Z.A. Bhutto. Some people also believe that it was introduced by Ayub Khan or even Zia-ul-Haq. No matter which of these three rulers of Pakistan introduced the quota system, it is widely and strongly accepted as a matter of fact that the sole purpose was it to throw out the community who migrated from India after the independence and settled in the urban areas of the province Sindh, from the educational institutes and bureaucracy.
1st one (i.e the very first quota system) was introduced in Sep 1948. It was implemented for 15 years initially. Quota system was revised in 1949. Liaqat Ali Khan was the Prime Minister of Pakistan in that time period. Hence the quota system was not introduced by Ayub, Bhutto or Zia but it was first introduced by Liaqat Ali Khan.

The quota system for the provinces in 1948 is as given below [1]
Bengal 42%
Punjab 23%
All Other provinces Sindh,Balochistan and NWFP ]and Princely States 17%
Potential Immigrants from India 15%
Karachi (capital city) 2%

The quota system revised in 1949 is as given below [1]
Bengal 40% -2%
Punjab 23%
All Other provinces Sindh,Balochistan and NWFP ]and Princely States 15% -2%
Merit 20%
Karachi (Capital city) 2%

This policy (quota system) provided that 20% of the vacancies in the Central Superior Services were to be filled on the basis of “merit” as a consequence of the Central Superior Services Examination (CSS examination). The remaining 80% of the vacancies were to be filled according to the following formula: [2]
East Pakistan 40%
Punjab and Bahawalpur 23%
Sind, Khairpur, North-West Frontier Province and
Frontier States and Tribal Areas, Baluchistan,
Azad Kashmir, and Kashmir refugees, 15%
Merit 20%
Karachi 2%

By 1956, the quota policy, which had started as an administrative directive within the Establishment Division, had grown to the status of a statutory exception to the “nondiscrimination clause” in the first constitutional. This status was reiterated in the 1962 Constitution. [2]

Unjustly quota for Sindh, NWFP, Baluchistan, Azad Kashmir and princely states was not separate right from the beginning. Fairness demanded that all the provinces must had separate quota according to their population. Also 2% quota for Karachi was continued despite the fact that Karachi was not the capital of Pakistan anymore. Quota was needed to be redefined and this was not done by any ruler of Pakistan till Z.A. Bhutto came into the power and redefined the quota for each province separately.

But by August 1973, it emerged in its present form: [2]
Merit 10% -10%
Punjab (including Islamabad) 50% +27%
urban Sind (Karachi, Sukkur, and Hyderabad) 7.6%
rural Sind (areas in Sind other than those above) 11.4%
NWFP (now KPK) 11.5%
Baluchistan 3.5%
Northern Areas and FATA 4%
Azad Kashmir 2%

According to Index Mundi the ethnic population as given below
Punjabi 44.68%
Pashtun (Pathan) 15.42%
Sindhi 14.1%
Sariaki 8.38%
Urdu Speaking 7.57%
Balochi 3.57%
other 6.28%

From the above statistics of the population on the basis of ethnicity, the current distribution of quota looks quite fair. Population of Punjab is 55% whereas it quota is 50% i.e. 5% less than its population.

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[1] “Affirmative action Policies in Pakistan,” by Mohammed Wasim

[2] “Policies of Ethnic Preference in Pakistan,” by Charles H. Kennedy
Posted 14th October 2013 by Waheed Hyder