Karachi was a successful port even before the muhajirs arrived here. The biggest contribution to turn it in to a successful port goes to Parsi community. Parsi community settled in Karachi much before the arrival of any other community, and they are the ones who turned a small fishing village in to a successful port. If I send you pictures of Karachi before 1947 you will realize it resembled some Eurpeon city. The plaque on BVS Parsi School says the date of establishment as 1859. It's a pity that most of the younger educated Parsis have left Karachi now in last 20 years, like most of the educated Agha Khanis, bohris, memons, Punjabis and Muhajirs after MQM started their ethnic based hate politics.
It's true that mohajirs are a hard working community and they give it a lot of importance to education. You have to understand that most of the people in Karachi are mohajirs. Agha Khanis, Bohris, Memons etc are Gujrati speaking mohajirs. These people are much more educated and enterprising than most of the Urdu/Punjabi/Pathan mohajirs. There are many Urdu speaking muhajirs. Sindhis, Punjabis, and Pathans are also muhjirs in Karachi. The original population of Karachi are the fishermen poulation mostly living in Lyari/Kemari and they are mostly Makrani origin even different from rest of Baluchis.
Karachi in last 20 years has a big problem retaining the educated young people from all these diversified groups who otherwise can make Karachi much better than what it is now.
I disagree with you completely here.
I am a born Karachite who went to Schools/Colleges in Karachi. The beauty of Karachi is diverse people living like one big community. Still today in schools children have friends from diverse communities. Karachi is not Urdu speaking mohajir only.
It is really sad on your part to misguide people that one Rehman Dakait from Lyari can destroy the harmony Karachites achieved in 200 hundred years in a second. Makranis have been living in Karachi for thousands of years, and when other communities shifted to Karachi they always lived in peace and harmony with them. Although they always lived in their own areas they never created trouble for anyone.
Karachi is mini Pakistan. Please do not project my city as some hate filled ethnic gang war place. It's high time that we should start thinking like Pakistanis and we must understand we have a much stronger bond being Pakistanis. Altafs, Zardaris, Nawazs will come and go. Atleast the educated people of our country should not allow people to become thier leaders who are trying to exploit ethnic divide for thier personal politics.
Being more educated people of Karachi have a duty to give national leadership to the country in every sphere of life not only politics. It's high time they should say a big no to any ethnic politics, and justifying one wrong with another wrong will never let us become positive. We should stop our wrong, which will inspire others to give up their wrongs. That's the only way forward my friend!
Let's identify Rehman dakait as a criminal instead of identifying him as Makrani trying to destroy Urdu speaking community. Similarly let's identify Urdu speaking terorist as criminals who are indulged in gang wars killing every ethnic group including rival urdu speaking people. Let's not become supporters of anyone of these criminals...irrespective of their ethnic back grounds.
Very well said yazdi.
Lahore is way up. Now please dont tell me the Economist is biased or anything of that sort.