Re: Bhatta mafia in karachi....
LOL
Now I will have to repeat myself ,like a broken record.
Karachi WAS ALREADY a developed and Cosmopolitan City , Suez Canal was opened in 1869 , and two years earlier to it , anticipatingly British spent 250,000 pounds sterling on the development of its port , it became the biggest exporting port of India ,especially all the agricultural produce from Punjab was exported through this port
its cosmopolitian population included, Jews, Iranians, Chinese, British , Australians, Goans, Malbaris , maybe a few Japanese , beside Anglo-Indians, Paris, Hindus, Christian, Muslims, Pathan, Sindhis, Punjabis, Balochis, Marwaris, Kathiwaris, Gujratis, Katchi memons, ...even Sikhs....there still is a Gurdwara on Manora to testify that .
it was among 5-6 cities ,which had the then most developed and modern mode of public transport , ie the Trams , which continued well into the 1960 , as late as 1969 or maybe upto 1972 .
most of the glorious building you see belonged to Hindus and Paris , though Muslims were not far behind .
Let me give you another dark chapter , never discussed or even mentioned in our history , the first ever Curfew in the New Country Pakistan was imposed in Karachi , Jan 48 to be exact , when zealots Killed over 1000 non-muslims here , that created the scare , and it resulted in the flight of 1.2 Million non muslim sindhis , the third highest after 9.3 Million Punjabis and 3.2 Million Bengalis ,...out of a total of 14.5 ,figure out the percentages of the displaced persons due to partition and its REAL impact where it was felt and where it was the most severe ...
the difference between the Punjab Holocaust of 9.3 Million displaced and 10 lac killed , and 3.2 Bengalis displacement was , those happened during and before partition , from 1946-47 onward peaking in Aug-Sep-Oct 47 , and then subsiding till Dec 47 , and from Sindh it started after 48 .
..there is enough material on the partition of Punjab , the latest being the monumental research by Mr Ishtiaq Ahmed , who spent 20 years , and used the Secret British Papers and First hand narratives of the survives to record this ....any way coming back to Karachi .
it was the I think the first city ,which had a Metropolitian corporation , mayor of which was choosen on rotiational basis from Paris.Hindus and Muslims .
so lets stop distorting history and stop spin doctoring it , the loss of that educated middle class of sindh , robbed Sindhi and left it in the hand of left over third class leadership , whatever was left , it scrambled back into the interior , Like G M Syed he retreated back to Sun , and unfortunately , the new comers , did not filed in the GAP , rather they created their own isolated cocoon , sort of an alien like existence with superiority complex , without realizing or rather ignoring the deep scars they have created in Sindhi psychology by robbing them advertly or inadvertently of their educated Middle class..
Great
This was a wonderful city before the Ayoub Khan .
He started the ethnic dirt ,shifted the capital near GHQ to make coup easy and didn't care to the problem of people of East Pakistan .
