By various estimates the Pashtun-speaking population is now 4 to 5 million strong or upto 25% of the population.
That is the nub of the problem for the MQM because their dominance is threatened by these demographic changes.
But then any Pakistani can settle in any part of Pakistan so this is something that the MQM is trying to change by it’s rampant violence and killing.
Re: Karachi - now the largest Pashtun-speaking City
Altaf Hussain is following the footsteps of Mujeeb ur Rehman Bengali. He has long term future plans to seperate Karachi from Pakistan and then became it independent country.
Re: Karachi - now the largest Pashtun-speaking City
By various estimates the Pashtun-speaking population is now 4 to 5 million strong or upto 25% of the population.
That is the nub of the problem for the MQM because their dominance is threatened by these demographic changes.
But then any Pakistani can settle in any part of Pakistan so this is something that the MQM is trying to change by it's rampant violence and killing.
Only Lex Luthor can pull these kind of stats and these kinds of theories out of his hat.
Re: Karachi - now the largest Pashtun-speaking City
Why so happy of Urdu speaking people losing majority to Pashtun laborers?
Urdu speaking people made Karachi what it is today.
Re: Karachi - now the largest Pashtun-speaking City
Hmmm! Do they still struggle when riding a bicycle ? :(
Re: Karachi - now the largest Pashtun-speaking City
The Pathan-Mohajir Wars of the 1990's are about to hit Karachi again with a vengeance.
10,000 People were killed in the 1990's blood letting.
Re: Karachi - now the largest Pashtun-speaking City
[quote="Lex_Luthor"]
By various estimates the Pashtun-speaking population is now 4 to 5 million strong or upto 25% of the population.
Mubark ho ji and welcome to Karachi..
about yur 2nd part... be as a good guests and try to make good relations with hosts
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yes and yeah pigs can fly :k:
Re: Karachi - now the largest Pashtun-speaking City
^ aww hosla rakho bhai, pakhtuns arent that bad
Re: Karachi - now the largest Pashtun-speaking City
[quote="Lex_Luthor"]
By various estimates the Pashtun-speaking population is now 4 to 5 million strong or upto 25% of the population.
Mubark ho ji and welcome to Karachi..
about yur 2nd part... be as a good guests and try to make good relations with hosts
Guests? lol
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^ aww hosla rakho bhai, pakhtuns arent that bad
who said that? I was talking about the numbers of 5million :)
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[quote="EyEsOnSkY"]
Guests? lol
ji guests LOL
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[quote=“EyEsOnSkY”]
Guests?? They are Pakistani and Karachi is part of Pakistan.
Karachi is the capital of Sindh, and has been part of Sindh for thousands of years.
No matter how much you closet Jinnahpur lovers hate Pakistan 
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be as a good guests and try to make good relations with hosts
your comment is as racist as the thread itself.
and this 25% is way too much i guess, Luthor bhai, thora kam karlo
Re: Karachi - now the largest Pashtun-speaking City
Karachi is a melting pot. I am glad to hear the stats. As long as people can live in harmony and peace, more cultures the merrier.
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and this 25% is way too much i guess, Luthor bhai, thora kam karlo
:D @ thora kam karlo
Re: Karachi - now the largest Pashtun-speaking City
Sick minded racists on both sides. Karachi is a city where Muslims of Pakistan live in harmony (minus handful of racist swines) according to the dream of its founders.
Pakistan Zindabad. Racism Murdabad.
Re: Karachi - now the largest Pashtun-speaking City
Why Karachi is bleeding**
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By Farrukh Saleem
ISLAMABAD:
**Karachi’s Pashtun population stands anywhere from a low of 4 million to a high of 6 million; that’s some 25 percent of Karachi’s residents and around 15 percent of the entire population of Sindh. Karachi’s Muhajir population, residents who identify themselves as Urdu speaking, stands anywhere from a low of 7 million to a high of 9 million; that’s some 45 percent of Karachi’s residents and around 23 percent of the entire population of Sindh.
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Of the 168 seats in the Sindh Assembly, ANP has 2, MQM 50, NPP 3, PML(F) 8, PML(Q) 11 and PPP 93. Based on demographics, the Pashtuns of Karachi could have up to 25 seats in the provincial legislature — but they have two. That is political power way out of sync with demographic realties.
Additionally, PPP’s provincial stake in Karachi is limited to half a dozen seats but that is the party that rules the province. In essence, the PPP designs and forms the system of governance in Sindh, but most of PPP’s political interests actually lie outside of Karachi.
State security is directly dependent on two factors: population dynamics and grouppopulation ratios. To be certain, Karachi’s system of governance has long ignored migration and settlement patterns. And, the consequence of that ignorance is now for all of us to see — a serious societal breakdown leading to even more serious conflict.
Karachi is the 3rd most populous city on the face of the planet, after Shanghai and Mumbai (according to the ‘city proper’ concept). Karachi is big and has all the problems that all big cities have — plus some more. To be sure, the primary driver behind the current mayhem is political in nature. Secondary drivers include sectarianism, ethnic rivalry, criminal gangs, drug mafia, land mafia, other criminal elements and a powerful weapons mafia.
Shanghai and Mumbai also have criminal gangs but it’s the political leadership of those cities that keeps societal fabric from breaking down. When political governance is unable to provide personal security and economic security along with justice to its constituents, all sorts of non-state actors move in to enrich themselves from this lack of governance.
Shanghai and Mumbai also have mafias but the political leadership has over the years built up administrative capacity to counter the power of those powerful mafias. Karachi’s administrative capacity, on the other hand, has long been subjected to patronage, nepotism and cronyism.
There is empirical evidence that fast changing group population ratios threaten state security. Muhajirs have long been a majority in Karachi and the MQM has long kept Karachi in its rather strong embrace. Over the past decade, Muhajir majority has faced a growing Pashtun minority but Karachi’s political infrastructure has failed to accommodate the new population dynamics.
Karachi is the hand that feeds Pakistan. Karachi is the source of 53 percent of total collections by the FBR (Federal Board of Revenue), 33 percent of federal excise taxes and 23 percent of countrywide sales tax. Karachi has 30 percent of Pakistan’s manufacturing sector and Karachi generates 20 percent of Pakistan’s GDP.
Karachi is witnessing political violence like never before and under that umbrella it is suffering from ethnic, sectarian, criminal and mafia-induced violence. Fish, it is said, stinks from the head downwards. Stabilising Karachi, therefore, means resolving political violence as the first step followed up by building administrative capacity (followed by de-weaponisation). Political power should not be allowed to stay out of sync with demographics.
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seems like part of the west of indus strategy.