Demographics of Karachi and political representation

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Re: Demographics of Karachi and political representation

@DD

While i despise ethnic strifes and sharing of national economy based upon race and language, some of our politicians have been very vocal about it. Specially the nationalist groups, who claim to be marginalised and under represented. Yet minorities in their own areas have not had the due political representation.

One example is Karachi. Of the 42 provincial assembly seats of Karachi, 35 belong to MQM, 5 to PPP and 2 to ANP. Yet this is in sharp contrast to demographics of the city.

Look at the population by mother tongue in the link below. Urdu speakers make up 48% of the population, Punjabis 13%, Pashtuns 12%, Balochis and Sindhias together 13% and others 12%. Now arguably the population of Pashtuns has increased considerably since then and may be as high as 20-25%. Now these 52% of ethnicities other than urdu speakers have very little representation in the Sindh assembly and this should be rectified.

[http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:R0tE9XROtAIJ:www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/pdfs/Karachi.pdf+Pakistan+census+karachi+1998&hl=en&gl=qa&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiz-

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Don’t you know the basic rules of statistics?

Anything above 0.5 is rounded off to the next digit. So, if you are rounding off, Urdu speakers were 49% of Karachi’s population according to the official census and Punjabis were 14%.