Re: FC guard slapped a woman reporter in Nadra office
is this quota system a new thing in politics. Muslim League played politics with Indian National Congress on this quota. Even Karachittes condemning quota system will support reserved seats for Muslims in India. Its meetha meetha hup hup karwa karwa thoo thoo ideology.
BTW, its not Bhutto who started quota system. Its Liaquat Ali Khan who started this (may be we can see justification for his action).
Quota system is a part of affirmative action , which tries to compensate the disadvantaged group , with a form of protection , ensuring some sort or minimum representation to safe gaurd their interests.
Pakistan has seen , three versions of Quota System.
1st one was introduced in Sep 1948 , it used a Regional/Provincial model for recruitment in Govt Jobs…and accordingly
Bengal had a 42% Quota 56% Population
Punjab a 23% Quota 28% Population
All Other provinces and Princely States had a 17% Quota 13.75 % Populatiion
Potential Immigrants from India 15% population considered about 9.8% as Potential
and Karachi had a 2% seperate Quota popuation 1.5%
… this lead to the disparity we see till 71 .
This was then revised in Nov 49
and now instead of using the term Potential immigrant … merit was used.
and new quota was
Merit 20%
Bengal 40%
Punjab including Bhawalpur 23%
Karachi 2%
All other 15%
and under the 1956 constitution its scope was uptill March 71. that is for 15 years.
1962 's constitution reduced the term for 10 years , that is till 72…so actually extended the term by a couple of months.
71 and subsequent break up of Pakistan changed not only the demographies , but also the weightage in terms of population shift.
Sindh started showing a heavy Urban/Rural …divide as Ethinic divide …between Sindhis nearly all rural and Mohajirs nearly all Urban.
the new percentages according to the changed realities was then
Merit 10%
Punjab 50%
NWFP 11.5 %
Balochistan 3.5%
FATA 4%
Azad Kashmir 2%
and Sindh 19% ..sub divided using a 60/40 formula of Urban/rural division into 11.4 Rural and 7.6 Urban .
this heavy Tilt away from Mohajir preference is /was the real cause of dis content , among mohajirs …that took a ugly turn come 84 onward… Period.
Source
Waseem Ahmed : Affirmative Action Policies in Pakistan
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