Re: Ethnic divide hits city hospitals
Kakay … why you talk of ethnicity and that is also with wrong taste? Sudhar jao ![]()
If Mohajirs in Sindh are outsiders than Sindhis in India are outsiders too … and there are more Sindhis live in India then Muhajirs living in Sindh … so, there are reciprocal migration from both sides, and that is going on since 1000s of years. Plus, many Muhajirs are actually old Sindhis anyhow who either migrated to India long time ago or pushed by Muslims invasion from West, but later converted to Islam. For instance, Memons all over India-Pakistan are from Sindh, are first group of Sindhis who became Muslim, many migrated east and large number returned to Sindh after partition, now are identified as Muhajirs. Kachchi are also old Sindhis, many settled in Gujarat and Maharashtra, a large number returned to Pakistan after Partition.
If language determines who is Sindhi than no one who speaks present day Sindhi are Sindhi, as present day Sindhi language is not actual language of Sindh, rather it is mixture of actual Sindhi language (most probably language similar to Gujrati) with language of Muslim invaders. If present day Sindhi was actual language of Sindh then it was not using Arabic script flooded with Arabic and Persian words. Obviously, people of Raja Dahir did not use to speak language that was written in Arabic script or was flooded with Arabic and Persian words.
Anyhow, as far as Pakhtuns or Punjabis in Sindh, they are welcome, but then when you have started talking about outsiders … what would you call them who have moved to Sindh when no Sindhis ever moved to Pakhtunkhwa or Punjab … or live there?
As far as I am concerned, all who lives in Sindh and consider Sindh as their home, have complete loyalty towards Sindh, have no attachments with or looks towards any lands (or province) other than Sindh, would like to be born and die in Sindh, would stay in Sindh regardless of Sindh stay part of Pakistan or not ... are all Sindhis, and in that respect Muhajirs are as much Sindhis as any other Sindhi. Actually, all who live in Sindh, including numerous Balcoch tribes who live in Sindh, or Punjabis and Pakhtuns who disassociated themselves from their old place of residence and live in Sindh, are Sindhis.