Re: Urdu as our national langauge
Even Sindh got a very good history for ethnic harmony and I can blow my own trumpet. The ethnic riots and hatred is a recent phenomenon (after partition, which got momentum after the incidents like on-unit and 1970s linguistic riots). Otherwise, No one can deny the diversification of races in Sindh. More than 40% of Sindh’s population is Baloch tribes. You will not find as many Chandias, Jamails, Khosas, Magsi, Mangi, Gabol, Leghari in whole of Punjab as in Sindh. Baloch leader Chakar Khan Rind did migrated to Sahiwal Punjab and is buried there, but you will find more Rinds in Sindh than in Punjab. Lyari (with majority Baloch population living aside Sindhis for around a century) is a slap on those who are of the view that there is no harmony among the races in Sindh.
There are Punjabi settlers in rural Sindh (including the one who settled after distribution of Kotri Barrage lands in 1950s). Now these settlers (including Maliks, Chaohans, Awans) which have assimilated with locals have never witnessed ethnic riots.
Then you can witness Pashtuns not only in Sohrab Goth and Banaras (Karachi), but in rural Sindh. Even they have colonies in Sehwan Sharif near mazar of Qalandar Shahbaz. Pathan ki kaafi is a famous place in Sehwan. Any reports for tussles between these Patahns and local Sindhis?
I know there have been clashes between Urdu speaking community and Sindhis, but it is not a complete face-off situation among the communities. There is strong bonding between the communities at masses level. Certain political waves do carry away people with their decision to vote their respectively communities, but that does not mean that they lack tolerance of others in absolute terms. There are people at intellectual level among both the communities who took steps for harmony and mutual understanding between both groups and I don’t think that its a lost cause.
So, one who are of the view that there will never be ethnic harmony among people living in Sindh, should dream on and live in their bubble.