The Future of Sindh by Mumtaz Ali Bhutto

Society Pakistan & World Affairs
21

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by RajputFury: *

Btw, you know what some Indians say about your Sindhi Hindu Brothers? "If you see a snake and Sindhi on the road, kill the Sindhi first"
[/QUOTE]

i think you did lose the right to call them "brothers" when you chose to evict them from their own native land and culture, gave away their property to pan chewing bhaiyyas, and never allowed them to return even when matters had calmed down. you can ask LK Advani if you have any doubts.

also, you got the saying wrong. "if you see a snake and a baniya, kill the baniya first" - rural punjab. calling someone a sindhi isnt an abuse in india, calling someone a baniya or hindu or kakkar is in west punjab. think it over.

22

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by antiobl: *
Here is the same WSC numbers for provinces' award chart normalized for the population.

[thumb=H]Sindh-budget%20analysis24276_3179234.JPG[/thumb]
[/QUOTE]

Here are some numbers to support the pie chart. See the chart shows pretty much equal distribution per capita.

Per capita award
Punjab: 409
Sindh: 397
NWFP: 397
Baluchistan: 382

Per Capita revenue collection
Punjab: 431
Sindh: 2822 (customs and export related taxes are due to Karachi port)
NWFP: 393
Baluchistan: 254

23

One point regarding the possibility of re-unification with Sindh in India:

Most of the problems that Sindhis are facing internally are due to old pagan practices (read as hindu practices) that are being misinterpreted as Islamically correct. This confusion of culture and religion is the precise cause of many of the problems in Sindh - and looky looky - other provinces are facing the same problem.

So, by uniting Pakistan's sindh with India's sindh - what will happen? There will be more infiltration of Hindu practices, and what little Islam that Pakistani sindhis are knowledgeable of will probably disappear or become subsidiary to the dominant Hindu culture in India.

I don't think re-uniting Sindh is an answer to the problems. It will lead to more problems of a different kind.

Pakistan is undergoing a transition at the moment. I think in a generation or two - the inter-cultural rivalry will diminish.

24

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Sadiqaan: *
I have managed to upload this picture.

[thumb=H]sindh24146_7674683.JPG[/thumb]
[/QUOTE]

Ooooh nice graph
now lets see how much of that revenue from sindh comes from karachi, veruss how much is spent on karachi :)

sindhi nationalists whine about not being treated fairly by the feds, but have no probs treating non-sindhis unfairly in sindh :)

25

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by queer: *
i think you did lose the right to call them "brothers" when you chose to evict them from their own native land and culture, gave away their property to pan chewing bhaiyyas, and never allowed them to return even when matters had calmed down.
[/QUOTE]

I think the same applies to ppl forced from east punjab and surrounding areaswhen you chose to evict them from their native land and culture, gave away their property to parsad-munching banyas, and never allowed them to return even when matters had calmed down