Re: Karachi problem is bw Taliban and Muslims. It is not bw Urdu speakers and Pashtun
POINT ONE: They are not so many concentrated in a single area. Karachi alone has almost DOUBLE the population of Pashtuns as the whole province of Punjab.
With close to 7 million Pashtuns by some estimates,[SUP][28][/SUP] the city of Karachi in Sindh hosts one of the largest Pashtun populations in the world.
The following delineates the Pashtun population in the provinces of Pakistan:
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flag_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.svg/20px-Flag_of_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.svg.png Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
24,586,000
Sindh
7,500,000[SUP][28]](Pashtun diaspora - Wikipedia)[/SUP]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flag_of_Balochistan%2C_PK.gif/20px-Flag_of_Balochistan%2C_PK.gif Balochistan
5,293,000
Punjab
4,929,000
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_Azad_Kashmir.svg/20px-Flag_of_Azad_Kashmir.svg.png Azad Kashmir
457,000
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Proposed_Flag_of_Islamabad_Capital_Territory.svg/20px-Proposed_Flag_of_Islamabad_Capital_Territory.svg.png Islamabad Capital Territory
55,000
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/20px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png Pakistan
**42,820,000
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POINT TWO: Karachi gets severely low level of resources than what it requires for its huge population. This is in contrast to other cities in Punjab and elsewhere. Karachi’s resources are controlled by people in places like Larkana. These people consider Karachi a golden goose to fill their own pockets, and they never care about or own the problems of the city.
According to official estimates Karachi is shown to have at least 1/2 its actual population. This means half the amount of resources it actually needs.
This lack of resources create friction among different people in the city. And since it has people from all over the country, so it becomes ethnic issue very quickly.
If Karachi becomes a province (it’s not gonna happen) and able to spend larger amount of its money on its people then there would be less friction and less animosity among people no matter what nationality they are.