Khan15, I was annoyed by your suggestion that they were slaves “dumped” here by the Arabs, when the Brits banned slavery. Even the wiki article suggests their migration here had more complex and earlier origins:
*The people who call themselves and are referred to as Sheedi live in southern Pakistan on the Makran coast, in Turbat and Pasni and in Karachi (mainly in the tightly knit neighborhoods of Lyari). **They trace their arrival to these shores of southern Pakistan as soldiers in the Arab armies in 712 A.D. The descendants of these soldiers are the Zanji Siddis. **
The Sheedis are African people brought during the Arab rule in Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan as soldiers and slaves were brought from Africa. The descendents are also called Makranis or Sheedis. The Sheedis (also called Habshi, from Arabic حبشي ḥabashi) are a Negroid people in Pakistan. **They are the descendants of slaves first brought to Pakistan by Arab merchants in medieval times from the Bantu-speaking parts of eastern Africa. *Siddis were referred to as Zanj by Arabs, and Seng Chi (a malapropism of Zanj) by the Chinese.[27][28][29]
And no I am not a Sidi.
regards,
bob