No, I don’t want a sectarian war here so please think carefully before you write. I was reading the following article and I wondered if the people who migrated from India to Pakistan especially to Sindh have the right to be called whatever they like regardless of whether they were born in Pakistan or not.
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Khalil Gibran
I think I should rephrase the question.
If Punjabis born in outside Sindh can still be called as Punjabi then why people are so against if people who were born in India want to call them Mohajir?
every pakistani has a right to be called a pakistani and not any more or less of a pakistani whether or not they claim attachement to any specific group within Pakistan....punjabi, pathan, makrani whatever..
This is quite a complicated issue which can not be resolved by discussion alone. The wider picture shows us the truth that we originate from one couple so we are same, where ever we are and whatever language we speak yet we have attachments with the area we are born in and the language we speak. In Sociology its called Ethnocentrism; good or bad but it is present in every culture. If the word Muhajir is interpreted in its correct lingual meaning we all but the people from Mesopotamia are Muhajirs...and Mesopotamia too is quite big!!!! so where was Adam (R.A.) thrown down to earth from heavens?????
I am puzzled on our various perceptions on this!
[This message has been edited by Perfectionist (edited May 27, 2001).]
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Originally posted by X2:
every pakistani has a right to be called a pakistani and not any more or less of a pakistani whether or not they claim attachement to any specific group within Pakistan....punjabi, pathan, makrani whatever..
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agree with X2