Re: The Ultimate Losers in Pakistan!
antiobl:
So what is your point kaka? Your efforts to defend Punjab are welcome but try some better argument than using North Nazimabad (NN) locality.
This is the worst example to bring in this discussion with a people from smaller states (or provinces). Most of NN’s Urdu speaking residents were “imported” from UP, Bihar and Hyderabad under special quota of 12% in Federal jobs back then. The import process started with Liaqat and continued until 1955 way after the partition. Liaqat could have gotten away with the economic murder of Sindhis and nobody would have cared. After doing the ethnic cleansing of Karachi and Hyderabad, poor Liaqat stepped on Punjab’s domain i.e. police and army. This thing was the biggest crime and the result was the bullet through his skull.
Even when Liaqat was sent to heaven by Punjab mafia, the importation of Urdu speaking people continued where they would land the cushy jobs in federal offices and big semi-autonomous organizations like Railway. This went on while Sindhis were kept out of Urban Sindh. In the 50’s non-Urdu speaking (even Punjabis) could not rent let alone buy a house in NN or other “better” locations of Karachi.
Karachi University kept Sindhis out until well into 1980s. This is like Punjab University keeping out students from rural Punjab for good 45 years. Then Lahoris would turn around and blame poor guy from Sahiwal for not getting “educated”.
As I said earlier, Sindh didn’t get their share. However I seriously doubt they would have gotten anything from Baniya rule either. Worse yet, Nehurivian sho-shaw-lism (socialism) would have robbed Sindhis from their lands as well. You can well imagine a Sindh with no land and no jobs in the offices either. At least they have their lands right now.
Ten years of Bhattu’s fascism plus another half a dozen by his daughter should have more then sufficed for the lost time…the quota system, recruitment of thousands of incompetent sindhi marroos across all gov’t and semi gov’t entities was one of the biggest step backwards in the history of Pakistan…