Attention Karachiites!!!

[muqawwee123]

Re: Attention Karachiites!!!

@Ali_Syed

In Lahore, population is mixed. In the previous house there were at least 2 Urdu speaking families that I knew in the street, and a few streets away a Gilgiti family. Karachi used to be fine too till a few decades ago, but petty turf wars have brought the city to where it is now. Different ethnicities are living side by side for generations and still they cant bear each together? At the moment the problem mostly is between ANP and MQM with PAC chipping in. But I remember once my khalu used to live in Hyderabad (I think it was the 90’s) and according to him there was wall chalking against Punjabis (to leave the province).

Thats the issue. We have been brought up in society, where walls used to have slogans ’ Bihari Na khappan - Don’t need Biharis in Sindh’, ‘Kafir kafir Shia Kafir’, ‘Soorat Gandi, Seerat Gandi, Deobandi Deobandi’, ‘Kala-Bagh Dam Namanzoor’, ‘Suno Suno Zulm ki kahani, Punjab ne kiya bund Pani’ These all slogans formed psyche of today’s generation. They hate each other out of insecurity.

As far as the composition of Karachi city, there are specific areas for specific communities like Sohrab Goth is Pashtoon area (though nearby Abul Asfahani Road’s flats are also occupied by mixed population i.e. Sindhi, Punjabi, etc). Lyari is Baloch/Sindhi area. Many families (specially Memon / Kutchi community have shifted from Lyari to Gulshan and Hussainabad). In past all communities have inter-marriages, but the latest political wars ( coupled with categorisation of dead bodies based on ethnicity by newspapers) is creating insecurity in all the communities.