Re: Myths Created by MQM
burqa:
This is interesting. What do you think was the reason that Punjabi-speaking from rural were getting more jobs and university seats in open-merit system? Did they work harder, or are they more intelligent?
But regardless of answer, it shows that open-merit system CAN benefit COMPETENT rural people. And lending them the jobs by unjustified/immoral/prejudiced quota system only worsens the problem for the country and for the province, as is evident from Sindh’s example.
Secondly, Punjab extends beyond the Punjabi speaking northern Punjab. Just look at the disadvantaged “rural” Seraiki speaking people, and let me know their share in jobs and university seats. The answer is self-evident from the fact that there is a cry of creating a Seraiki province in southern Punjab due to Saraiki claims of injustices at that hands of Punjabi-speaking northern Punjab.
So all this talk of quota system for disadvantaged is nothing but a dhakosla.
On the same note, if quota system is oh-so-good then what about implementing it in NWFP and Balochistan? Why people have problems only in Sindh?
What also is worth noting is that quota system in Sindh was created for 20 years, and it was expected by Bhutto that rural Sindh will improve by that time. What happened was that the whole Sindh, inc. Karachi, got worse due to these myopic policies.
The limited time which was argued while implementing this unIslamic system shows that Bhutto also knew that he was wrong fundamentally.
Lastly, we all know that Bhutto and Zia’s stupidity of introducing quota system to “help” rural Sindh did not work:
http://iaoj.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/pakistan-poverty-double-in-rural-sindh-than-urban-areas/
The rural areas of Sindh province have been facing with abject poverty and a release of Planning and Development Department, Government of Sindh (GoS), issued here on Saturday, showing serious concern over the yawning rural-urban divide has revealed that the poverty head count ratio in the rural areas is almost double than in the urban areas, said.