Cultural differences between Urdu-speaking people and Punjabis

[nikhil25]

Re: Cultural differences between Urdu-speaking people and Punjabis

@Fraudz

mohajir means an immigrant/migrant, how can someone whose garndparents moved to Pakistan, and whose parents were born in Pakistan, call himself a migrant/immigrant. He is as Pakistani as anyone else, however if you see the nation thru linguistic, provincial and ethnic glasses, where is the space for that guy. He is good as long as he refers to himself as Pakistani, but as soon as you go to punjabi, sindhi, balochi, pathan level..he is none of the above, so what is he, the answer “just a pakistyani” does not seem to suit the provincial minded folks. other minorities seem to be noted by their dialects or specific areas so I suppose the urdu-speaking thing got started.

i don’t mean to get into the technicals…just the widely-accepted understanding of the term “Mohajir” - which is a reference to the Urdu-speaking immigrants that are centralized in Sindh.

so you are saying that Mohajirs don’t like to refer to themselves as “Mohajirs” due to the inaccuracy of the definition? or is it because there is a stigma attached to the label? just as you mentioned a few ethnic labels that Mohajirs cannot claim, they can claim others such as Bihari or Lakhnavi/Lucknowi, etc…do these Indian ethnicities elicit condescent amongst other Pakistanis? I just get the sense that there is some shame factor involved, but i’m not sure.

what you should also remeber is that not all “mohajirs” are urdu-speaking, there were many mohajirs who moved from parts of punjab and sindh etc, and for them it was a diff ballgame, similarlyyou have mohajirs who are niether from any of the provinces or surrounding areas, nor are urdu speakers.

yes, this is true…but again, i’m referring to the generally-accepted reference.