Re: Who are really Racist in Pakistan?
Please read carefully and think It is important that Pakistanis should know who are ethnic and racist in Pakistan and who are really playing with the future of Pakistan as one country. One can even find them out on this forum as post of these people tells everything.
Mr. Saleem, your misonthrapy and ultra-Muhajiarism is best exposed by the statement above which begins with the usual hypocritic rants of typical Pakistanis that cannot have any other conception of Pakistan except the one in which Muhajir interests reign supreme.
You cannot imagine a Pakistan in which people and nationalities are bound by an equitable social contract and in which multiculturalism is celebrated rather than considered a threat. Evidently, you are dreaming of a Pakistan in which 7% Muhajirs are the masters, at the top of power-hierarchy, and the rest are the slaves, at the bottom of the political, cultural, and economic order.
Now everyone can see who is the worst racist.
It is this racist mentality and bigotory that forced Bangalis to part ways in 1971. How attempts were made to subject them to the cultural and economic imperialism of Muhajir-Punjabi dominated West Pakistan and to impose Urdu-Hindi on them is a part of the contemporary history(you know why UNO declared February 22 as the mother-tonuge day...because on this day Bangali students had resisted imposition of Urdu-Hindu and as a punishment had been slaughtered by army).
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As for Parties in Pakistan, one should look at the parties and see if they allow representation of all ethnicity in their party or not. For instance, we should check how many representatives in ANP are non-Pakhtuns, how many representatives in PPI are not Punjabi and Pukhtuns, etc. We have to also see if ANP is run by Punjabis in Punjab, Sindhi or Muhajir in Sindh or not. If party have members in provincial and national assemblies, we have to see if they have member on basis of non-ethnicity in assemblies or not.
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Here again your argument contains the usual self-serving proposition and whimsical assertions.
In order to decide whether a political party or a group is racist or not, there are a number of factors that should be taken into account ...foremost whether the acts, ways, struggle, and history of the political party have been violent and militant or peaceful and political...whether its manefesto and ideology favors ethnic, cultural, and political pluralism and democracy or the hegemoney of the ethnic group it represents...and whether it is inclusive or exclusive of the different ethnic backgrounds...
ANP in the past had many political starlwarts from other ethnicities in its folds in top leadership positions not to mention Mulana Bashani, Attaullah Mengal, Sher Baz Mazari, Ghaus Bakhsh Bizanjo, Mian Mahmood Qasoori (from Punjab), Majid Sindhi, etc. Even now, some of its most influential leaders are not Pashto-speakers (e.g. Haji Adeel, Syed Aqil Shah, etc.). Also, it is political heir to Khudai Khidmatgars who espoused secularism and democracy for all...
Now compare this with MQM...Have not the ways and struggle of MQM been militant...Was not its birth coincided with violence...? How ethnically broad it is?
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1: Regularly talk about ethnicity and would make fun of others and show hate for others on ethnic basis.
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Talking of one's identity and culture is not racism until you try to thrust it on others like some Muhajirs have done by advocating a vision of Pakistan that is Urdu-Hindi centered. Believe me I've seen Muhajirs who have lived in NWFP for almost two generations but have not bothered to learn even two words of the native lanuage...Now who are racists...One can well gauge from this.
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2: Would only talk about rights on basis of ethnicity and not on merit.
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Disguised in this advocacy of merit is your Muhajir super-racism and inhumanity...Because you grabbed resources and became privileged due to favoratism of Muhajir leaders like Liaqat Ali Khan and Mohammad Ali Jannah and now have an obvious edge over Sindhis in terms of resourcefulness, you are supporting a system that perpetuates the status-quo...This is again naked racism...Your views in this regard are not inclusive but rather exclusive...
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3: Would talk about provincial autonomy and right of province on provincial resources and consider that Punjab is robbing them, but would never talk about right of Sindh on federal revenues collections in Sindh
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The revenue from Seaport of Karachi, part of of the land of Sindhis, should be spent on the development of interior Sindh...
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4: Would never like complete merit in Pakistan on basis that Pakistan is confederation and all positions should be divided on provincial basis.
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Answered above! Further 7% Muhajirs have more than they deserve...
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5: Many of their posts write that Pakistan is confederation and oppose the idea of dividing Pakistan into smaller administrative units.
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Again concealed in this support for smaller units is the desire to have Karachi declared "Jinnah Pur" province of the Urdu/Hindi-speaking community. That must not happen because then Sindhis would be pushed to the wall and a blood-shed would happen...Moreover, in the original contract for Pakistan there were mentioned only 6 or 7 provinces...So first the federal question should be settled...then Muhajirs should find a way of peaceful co-existance with Sindhis...
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6: Claim to have their distinct ethnicity and show how proud they are because of their ethnicity.
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That is not a bad thing...Every one that has a past and an identity takes pride in his/her culture...Bad thing is when you impose it on others...
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7: Would like the name of NWFP changed on the basis of ethnicity to Pakhtunistan or Pakhtunkhowa.
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That is what the historical name of that area is and where they are in majority. They have the right to call their historical land whatever they want to.