i deeply despise hatred among ethnicities in Pakistan
I commend your feelings & I share them ..., but its important to have an understanding from the other side.
My first point is that ethnic & linguistic makeup of the immigrated population from India that settled in Punjab & Urban Sindh was different..., what was the reason for that is not that important to me.., & frankly this could very well have been an outcome of a concsious choice by the immigrants perceiving better opportunities in Karachi rather then a result of coersion. The important thing is that based on this fact alone the circumstances of the immigrants were so different that the same standard of integration cannot be applied to both. For the former the integration in the society was natural for the later there was a perceived opposition. While this perception may have been real or delusional the important thing to understand the sequence of events that followed in subsequent decades is that such a feeling did exists , MQM who in the 80s did had heartfelt support from the people of Urban Sindh unlike today rise to fame in such a short span of time partly because of this feeling & not the other way around.
Secondly, the immigrant population that settled in Urban Sindh was culturally,socially,economically & educationally diverse, & their concerns & priorities were different. They consisted some of the richest business man in Pakistan e.g the 22 families that Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto nationalized predominantly consisted of immigrants, at the same time there were others that were living in poverty & backwardness specially those migrants that came to Karachi after the fall of Dhaka. There were two things that they all be it rich or poor, educated or uneducated shared in common
1) A growing feeling that we dont have any share in national politics as a people.Please analyze the Political history of Pakistan from the mid 50s upto 1984 & analyze the insignificance of these people in National Politics, the failure of Fatima Jinnah was very strongly felt in this regards.., the feeling was that if a fairy tale story cant succeed then the rest of us will have no significant role in National Politics in Pakistan. This feeling of isolation from mainstream national politics gradually sowed the seeds of regionalism
2) There was a very strong feeling amongst the youth in the late 70s & 80's that muhajir people are docile, passive cowardly..., they can only concern themselves with their jobs & their businesses.., they dont have the mettle to aggressively fight for anything..., this feeling developed very strongly in the population that came after 1971 from Bangladesh who were not as settled as the rest of the population & it was specially targetted towards the Pathan who had a tradition of being macho & had a swagger about them, they were living & immigrating to Karachi for decades & there weren't any significant problem for a very long time. Howevr this started to change during the Afghan war when there was a huge surge in immigration & more importantly the new immigrants were also well armed & their influence & control over neighborhoods was increasing. It this feeling & a rebellion against sterotyped as docile more then anything else that enabled MQM to create a Mafia organization.
While all of these perceptions might have been delusional the important thing is they were at that time & in some regards even today felt to be true , the important thing is how to eradicate this perception ?
While I have no intentions to justify them.., infact I despise them because nothing more then this Robinhood, Mafia & terror philosophy has destroyed our society & the moral values of our youth, all I intend to point is that there were many factors that lead to the situation that we are in, its actually naive & even disrespectful towards us to assume that we are held hostage to this gangster organization purely at our own hands without any other factor playing any part in it.