Imran, bringing change in public and elite

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Re: Imran, bringing change in public and elite

@khoji

Other parties may have vote banks in other provinces, but their politics is still ethnic. For example, PMLN’s politics is based on Punjabi nationalism in Punjab (“jaag Punjabi jaag”) and it is based on anti-Pakhtun (Hazara) nationalism in KP. Similarly, PPP’s politics is based on Sindhi nationalism in Sindh, and ANP’s politics is based on Pakhtun nationalism.
So why blame just MQM?

Actually it is trying to go beyond just a party of urdu speakers. That’s why it has representatives from Gilgit/ Baltistan as well. And they are not Urdu speakers.

Not true. PML wins seats in KP and Punjab, PPP wins all across the nation – these parties though corrupt and utterly failed, do not play the divisive politics of ethnicity at the level that MQM does. MQM’s leadership routinely makes statements that s tir ethnic divide, it wouldn’t take much googling to find all of that. They do that, and then they kill in Karachi. Its a really bad combination which is not going to win it any votes or public acceptance. Though PTI has not made it’s presence felt in the assembly despite having many chances to be in power, they have much more goodwill and a much greater support across the ethnic lines.

As per a 2009 IRI poll, Imran Khan and PTI were the third most political party party in Pakistan, miles ahead of MQM. Please refer to that poll in order to educate yourself. That was 2009 – and now they are easily a major political force.