Still fighting for separate homeland ?

Finally they have come to their senses. GOD bless you guys. I am very proud of you.

This is how, Pakistan gets more divided,based upon ethnicity, then fight, kill each other, no need of Britishers.

When they are not in the government, they make such threats to get their way.

This party only knows how to divide. I would have supported their demand if only it was based on merit and no ethnic differences were set in it. It is absurd on the part of a political party to divide a state based on ethnic differences. Concentrate on improving the lives of poor people and get corruption out, everything will get in place.

I am with division of Sindh for our mohajir brothers...

There is nothing wrong in creation of seperate province in Pakistan but a demand for cretaion of province for "Urdu Speaking" is what is bad in this whole case. For the sake of betterment of Pakistan i would never support this demand. Province should only be created based on population growth for better administartion and facilitation but on these grounds.

Finally! I can already see a prosperous peaceful society forming. Most of the current issues in karachi are only because of politics and ethnic problems. This move will not solve the problems but will certainly make it much more peaceful.

Im in favour of more provinces but sindh is critical issue and can trigger chios

About time, but if MQM rules the new province then it will be as worse as PPP

"The Urdu-speaking people of Sindh are subject to discrimination therefore we demand a separate province for them" What nonsense. MQM controls Karachi so if this is called discrimination I don't know what is opposite of this.

Will MQM never learn?

Lets make every division of every province an autonomous body with few provincial control. It should work I think.

People of Sindh need basic facilities like healthcare and education but the 2 major parties keep fooling people in the name of language.

Altaf Bhai please, we are not interested in your style of politics and please let us vote for PTI in the next elections. We all know that how you people had won the elections of May 2013.

Its never too late I will ask MQM party to stand firmly on the demand of a separate province. There is nothing against Sindhi or against the exitsence of Pakistan. With the passage of time and with the population explosion creating new provinces is but natural for good govennance. Keep it up MQM, your are not local party of Mohajir you are Quomi Muthahidda Party party for all suffering people of Pakistan.

I agree quota system is very flawed , Govt has failed to uphold merit.

MQM is trying to trigger a civil war in Sindh, there will be bloodshed, just like there was bloodshed in 1992. it has been 68 years since the so called Mohajirs came to Sindh, but why have they not learnt Sindhi? they study Urdu while the Sindhis learn Sindhi. if you go to UK, Germany or any western country you have to learn and speak their language. This language seperation is the basis of all hate. If all the people Sindhis, Mohajir, Punjabi, Baloch, Pathan all learn and write Sindhi, then no one will point out to them saying they are non-Sindhis. what Mohajirs do is they say they are Sindhis but never behave like Sindhis, nor speak Sindhi. Just saying they are Sindhi does not make them Sindhi. And above all, Mohajir teach their children to prepare Urdu and Mohajir over Sindhi and Sindh.

I agree that quota system is wrong, but you could just say "People of Urban Sindh/ Karachi want new province.

Province on the basis of administrative requirements is genuine need but on the basis of race and language will be dangerous. If MQM is sincere than they should justify their demands on administrative basis. Why they are considering them self so ignored despite the fact its their governor in Sindh. Its their language (Urdu) which we all proudly recognizing as our national language. Why the punjabi bolnay waly mahajar never complained in Punjab? Why they consider them self the most sophisticated and cultured class?

Pakistan was not created for all Muslims of Indian subcontinent, it was only created for Muslims of areas where they were already in Majority. Those who migrated from the areas which are now in India have no place in Pakistan.

Guys, there are real issues of discrimination in Sindh against a particular community. These discrimination's are blatant. Please open your eyes and raise your just voice. However, I am against the division of Sindh but in favor of administrative partitions.

If we accept the version of PPP that MQM tries to divide the Sindh, can it be humbly asked from the leadership of PPP what have they delivered to the people of Sindh? What efforts were put in to erase the urban and rural divide? It is a well known fact that Sindh is the worst governed province.

@I Love Pakistan I totally agree with your perspective on creation of provinces

How would they define Urdu Speaking and Mohajir? The people who emigrated from parts that are now in India must be small in number, now. There are very many who did not migrate from those parts but speak Urdu, and very well. Are they going to demand that people in Urdu province prove the lineage back to parts that are in India now on both sides of parents and all the great parents? I can understand demand for a province for MQM; but for Urdu speaking / Mohajir?

Constitution of 1973 mentions two units of sind rural and urban so why all the fuss. Bulawayo change your attitude you do not own karachi nor any one is going to ask you for it. Decision regarding karachi wll be taken by karachties.

Further division of provinces are imminent, it will be in the benefits of Pakistani people. This procedure of division is worldwide recognizable and doing well everywhere from India, China to America. In Canada where total Population is 32,000,000 (32 Millions), it has 11 provinces and 2 Federal Administered state. Pakistan Population is 200,000,000 (200 Millions) and we have 4 provinces and 1 Federal Administered Area.

Today a demand for a separate state for nonsensical reasons leading to a demand for a separate country tomorrow for the same nonsensical reasons. This is actually masked treason in my opinion...

Provinces should be created in Pakistan to end corruption, lawlessness, jagirdari, better controls and rule by Kings of both Sind and Punjab but not the basis of languages

Definitely there should be more provinces. Politicians should now look for smaller administrative units rather than keep on exploiting the people of Pakistan

Druming up the policy of divide and rule by MQM and PPP was long anticipated as they fear the significant decrease in their power both in urban and rural areas respectively. The fear is because of the proposed improvement in electoral system brought about by electronic voting and increased awareness among people of the reality of both the parties. Both the parties do not represent the people of Sindh but only landlords, industrialists, criminal elements and opportunists. Their policy of divide and rule is expected to be intensified as we near the election. The people of Sindh know this and both the parties are fooling none but themselves.

When Bilawal Is not tired of using ethnic slogans to gain support of the population of the Sindh a reacaction is bound to follow. Hence this demand for separate province. Sindh needs to be divided for achieving better efficiency in administration and not to fan the fire of ethnicity. It is hoped that history of 1971 will not be repeated by Sindhis and Mohajirs.

there are many factions within mohajirs.... rajasthani ... dilliwalas ... biharis ... up/cp/ap walas so all will ask for their sub provinces in time to come. let us not forget the split within mqm in 90s followed by gruesome war between haqiqqi and mqm resulting in mass target killing, abduction, torture and mutilated bodies being dumped in garbage bags.... to me this is not the solution but start of mega problem .... and entire sindh especially will suffer..... last question ... why governor sindh has not yet tendered his resignation .... is he still part of mqm or has parted

@Muhib OK, take Orangi Town and New Karachi and make it your own province. Karachi is cream of Pakistan and no sindhi, no punjabi, no baluchi and no pathan can make Karachi their own province. Karachi is for all.

MQM loves crying "discrimination" when that is exactly what it does against others. MQM always creating such a drama and fuss, always based on lingual differences.

@Harmony they want Laddos from Sindhis, time has come for Sindhis to send them back to a Mohajir province in India from where they came.

@Harsh They just want to loot hindu property in those areas.

The 'Urdu speaking' residents of Karachi should see themselves as Pakistanis and are entitled to the same rights as all other Pakistanis. Calling for a separate province is subversive and a slap in the face of the native people who embraced them as their Muslim brothers who came to their lands as refugees from India. What's next, would they be asking for a separate country? They are welcome to live in Pakistan as Pakistanis but if they believe that life is tough then they should consider returning to their ancestral lands. Does it mean that millions of Pakistanis living in England and elsewhere can claim discrimination tomorrow and ask for a separate states!!. What a ridiculous proposition.

Cat is eventually out of the BAG

Sindh, it belongs to Muslim and Hindu Sindhis. Demand return of Hindus to their motherland SINDH and Mohajirs to India and free SINDH, This will relieve pain between Hindu and Muslim.

This Is all Drama between PPP & MQM just to play with the peoples Sentiments & Lives and to stop entering PTI In Sind (Just See there old drama)

Nothing to do with Mohajris province,Pakistani population is rising , we need more provinces for progress of the country. Pakistan urgently required to increase 10 more provinces for the better management and progress. I do not belong to any political party. I am genuine Pakistani.

And that is exactly why MQM is being hated across Pakistan (and rightly so)

@Sunil It was never meant to be this way, but I saw it coming because of the domination of one province. The discrimination against Mohajirs began almost immediately after the partition and has been getting from bad to worse. East Pakistanis were never treated equally although they were in majority and who could blame them for separating from Pakistan, and now who knows which province is next to do so.

back to Muhazir qaumi movement ?

@I Love Pakistan In view of continued discrimination against the Urdu speaking people, what other choice do they have?

@ghanshyam Not fighting for a homeland, Pakistan is our dearest dear mother land & home land, Mohajirs are desiring to have administrative control of Urban Sindh. Mohajirs in Pakistan are enjoying 50 times better life & opportunities than their relatives who stayed back in India. Long live Pakistan

@Syed Zulfiqar . Why not make Gadap, Malir, Landhi, Lyari, Bin Qasim, Pipri a separate provinces?

Yes to new province but not a Mohajir Province. For too long Urban Sind has been ruled by Corrupt Waderas from Rural Sind. However the new province has to be for all people living in the new province.

@Anti-MQM Yes, it is true that when one migrates to UK, Germany or any other western country, they have to learn the language of that country, and therefore it is logical to expect from the people who migrated to Pakistan to learn the language of Pakistan. What is the language of Pakistan? I thought it was Urdu, but after reading your comment I realize that I am wrong !

@Usman Punjabi bolnay walay "mohahirs" never complained because they are not discriminated like the Urdu speaking mohajirs are.

Insha ALLAH we will ......!!

It is now perfect time for MQM to change the name of their organisation as 'Muhajir Qaumi Movement' and should be proud of it.

More provinces for better governance in service of citizens is a good thing. However, creating provinces along ethnic lines is criminal and an anti-state demand. The question is if MQM leadership anti-Pakistan?

@Adnan lol...You are so right man:)

No more talk. Action

@zainab ms Zainab, i believe you know the national language of Pakistan is Urdu while each province has its own provincial language which distinguishes who you are. Based upon that there are Muhajirs in Punjab, but they have learnt Punjabi and have been absorbed as Punjabis. While Muhajirs in Sindh never have accepted Sindhi nor have they tried to learn it. This Urdu language is learnt by everyone in Pakistan, so literally All are Urdu Speaking. The discrimination of favoring Urdu speaking Muhajirs over Sindhis un Karachi is clear as crystal. We had 10 Muhajir of Hyd n Karachi domicile, while the rest 110+- were Sindhis from all over the Sindh. The Muhajir students upon graduation got immediate jobs in Karachi while theall the Sindhis have been applying for jobs but no response to them. There was a PAF engineering recruitment test, during that i was asked to show CNIC, it was in Sindhi, guess what the Officer said, in an angry 'tum Sindhi ho? Why come to Karachi?' The next candidate was a classfellow Muhajir, when the officer saw his Urdu CNIC he proudly showed it to all the Sindhis that this is what is necessary here, Urdu based CNIC is a must. The whole drama of A province for Urdu Speaking, is unjustice to Sindhis. Who allowed them to settle in Sindh unlike Punjabis who drove the Muhajirs from Punjab.

@Viking Star agreed. Stop complaining MQM

i am urdu speaking. Yes we need provinces in pakistan all over, but not on the basis of 'Urdu Speaking'. That is not right. This will only bring chaos in Karachi. There should be unity and equality in Sindh and all over Pakistan.

@Zainab people of Karachi or Sindh have not discriminated against you , it's PPP that is not listening to your demands. You guys also discriminate against Pathans

@A Sheikh love your idea. Miss Zainab learn to unite not seperate.

@Muhib aren't Sindhi our brothers? Shame on you.

@James Even worst.

are they demanding separate province or country . . they want to see the division of pakistan . .

The only way out of the systematic discrimination of the 2% of the Elites, sectarian violence, and crime against minorities is to create more provinces that will improve administration and bring prosperity to common person (MANGO MAN)

There are literally millions of Punjabi Mahajir as well in and around Lahore ------------- Should they demand the same

@Harsh Don't be ungrateful Sir

@Adnan First PTI should eradicate polio from KPK which is very small thing then talk about a little bigger things.

Don't understand the fuss on separate province. Here in India we have formed so many new provinces. Latest being Telangana formed few months back.

When Mohajir could not integrate in 67 years, How can they ever integrate -- separate province or not. They need to change thier mindset. They have sence of intitlement. By the way I am not Sindhi. MQM has also its share in destroying peace in Karachi.

@Harsh Unfortunate it was those Muhajirs who made Pakistan possible. Without Muhajir there wouldnt have been any Pakistan.

It would not have come to this, If people of Karachi were getting their fair share. PAT and PTI have woken up people of Pakistan and now they want their democratic rights. Nothing wrong in having more provinces in Pakistan. Bilaval and Zardari family do not own Sindh. People living in Sindh own Sindh.

This is true that not all Pakistanis are treated the same. It doesn’t mean that we divide Pakistan on the basis of ethnicity. There is also much diversification within a single ethnic group so where we draw a line. The resolve is to unite and not to divide.

Pakistan should have more provinces why Bilawal is so opposed he should clarify himself!

How about Utter Pardesh? They can all go back if they want a seperate province based on ethncity. There should be more provinces but not based on the language you speak.

Why some one does not tell him that "mahajurs" is not a disposition for eternity. You were born in Pakistan and you lived always in Pakistan,, what has this "mahajur"bit got to do with you. Wake up.

It is a reasonable ask ..

Knowing imminent defeat at the hands of PTI, both MQM and PPP are trying to play with Sindh, one calling for a separate province for Mohajirs (strange to call Mohajir) to hoodwink the people of Karachi by making them believe that MQM is the only champion of their rights, whereas PPP is making Sindhis believe that it is the only party that can resist or oppose the break-up of Sindh. Bu the people of Sindh province are far better awakened to be trapped both by MQM and PPP. Future of PTI is very green in the province of Sindh.

Finally MQM's Demand for a separate province is really good idea to have control law and order instead of blaming each other. I believe Punjab and other province should be divided as well. People of Pakistan should be identified as Pakistani instead of Punjabi, Sindhi, Muhajir, Baloch, Pathan and others. Nationalisms should be discriminated; all should be Pakistani before anything else.

Pakistan should long ago have been divided into many provinces, this setup of 4 provinces is the cause of 2 families, the sharifs and zardaris ruling us, if there are 40 provinces instead, then these guys would be really cut down to their true size. Another very important issue that would work in favor of a United State of Pakistan (USP) would be no major separatist issues like Baluchistan, there would be 7 provinces in that place instead. So the idea of divide and rule would greatly strengthen a beleaguered central state, just like India, where there are separatist movements in Assam etc. but they are no more than a nuisance. Ofcourse administrative benefits and the development of other centers / cities other than just Lahore, Peshawar, Karachi, Quetta and the talents of these provinces would lead to a many fold upgrade of the nation as a whole.

Showing true colors

Division of Sindh into three or four provinces is need of the day. As PPP government badly failed to restore law and order situation in the province especially in Karachi, that is why the hegemony of one political party over entire province that is monopoly of one incompetent government of Qaium Ali Shah must be replaced. The enlightened and educated people of Karachi must be given a chance to govern over Karachi as province. Not only Karachi should be divided into four provinces but PUNJAB and KP Province should also divided into small administrative units. Division of the provinces should be on administrative basis and not on ethnic basis.

@ Indian Creating more provice does mean dividing the country . You guys also created more provinces based on ethinicity like Telangana.

There is nothing wrong in making Karachi a separate province given the size of this City it makes perfect sense. Its true that majority of the population of Karachi comprises of urdu speaking folks but they are not the only ethnicity in Karachi. Karachi is a melting point that represents all communities of Pakistan. Now the issue of discrimination and quota system, I totally agree with this. This has been going on for too long and as a result it has flamed the feelings of discrimination. This has further compounded by the fact that even though MQM is the majority party in Karachi they don't get their share of resources and control with lack of local body system. when they had this for a brief duration they did wonders for the city of Karachi and for everyone living there. So I firmly agree and understand where they are coming but my advice to MQM will be to not make it a mohajir issue but raise voice for making Karachi a separate province for the benefit of all ethnicities living in Karachi. Pakistan needs unity, just because we have other provinces based on ethnicity it is not the reason to want another one based on the same reason.

It is essentially a tug of war between Urban Sindh and Rural Sindh. And to elloborate more, between feudals and city dwellers. And Urban includes all ethnicities, Mohajirs, Sindhis, Punjabis, Pukhttons, Balochis, Parsi etc. Who ever lives in urban Sindh need their voices in running their lives and future, which is not happening with PPP governament. MQM should not be calling for 'Mohajir' province, but for more administrative units. We need more provinces for increasing population and for every body to have a sense of being first class Pakistani citizen and not the left outs.

What's so special about SIND? Why it's OK to create more provinces others in rest of Pakistan but not Sind? Sind is not personal property. It's about time MQM come to sense to demand for separate province. Please don't settle anything less than separate province for Urdu speaking. People should known existing provinces in Pakistan were created on language basis. Punjab is punjabi speaking, Blochistan for blochi, KP is for pashtu speaking & Sind for sindi speaking. There is nothing wrong if MQM demanding province for Urdu speaking.

Divide and conquer... that's how its done!

Looks like PPP and MQM are ready for a head-on collision to upset the peaceful marches by the youth to bring change in the country.Every time MQM falls out of government, it make threats for a new province. Karachi as a province is a joke like the leadership of MQM and PPP. Shame on PPP and MQM for practicing fear mongering, unpatriotic and dirty politic.

Being an urdu speaking person born and bread in Karachi i most humbly disagree with what MQM has said. Whether one likes it or not Urban areas of Sindh gets more development budget and are far more developed then the rural areas. In fact when it comes to development its the rural areas which are being discriminated and neglected, in last two decades Urdu speaking people have settled in many Sindhi speaking areas and have been welcomed by the locals. In short life of average Urdu speaking is 10 times better than Sindhi speaking then what this issue of discrimination ? The Sindhis have very big heart, in last PPP govt the floods destroyed most of sindh but major flood relief fund was given to Punjab just because PPP wanted to stay in power and Punjab's CM was raising Punjab Card. Please don't do this to our Country My humble request to fellow Urdu speaking community, start thinking positive, last thing this country needs is division on ethnic and linguistic lines. Thanks

This is all drama to keep PTI away from Karachi and Sindh. They are playing with People's sentiments. Please shut up and wind yourselves up from Sindh PPP and MQM. It's time for Khan to clean the Sindh from any debacles!

The people of Karachi and Hyderabad has right to demand for new province in Sind. Their demands for local bodies elections were not met by the ruling majority party, they were neglected in all fields. Basic needs live education, health, water and sewerage, police, etc were not at all addressed, no development funds were given, people were held on ransom by law enforcing authorities. Demand is quite genuine.

@observer ... Totally agree with you ... there is nothing wrong with asking for a separate province as Sindh is by all means already divided into urban and rural ... People who live in urban sindh simply cannot even travel or work in rural sindh, forget about settling there.

@laddoo ... This is not non-sense ... its the bitter truth that only karachiites know and feel the pain of

@I Love Pakistan Why other provinces created on linguastic ..... more provinces will strengten our beloved pakistan

Creation of more province will strenghten our beloved country

@aktasleem@gmail.com : Also, the latest division of Telangana/AP in India is not solely based on ethnicity. There are linguistic/dialectic, sub-religious, caste/sub-caste, water, fight for socio/political representation and few other narratives involved in that division.

People opposing new province please tell me why is it so wrong? Not just Sindh- south punjab, hazara, Balochistan etc. I mean give one logical reason? This is not Basque or Scotland asking for complete autonomy just better governance. At every big and successful company work is divided for better and more efficient quality. Keep aside the political motives and think!

Urdu speaking are not that many in number to actually inhabit a whole province. I think the key is to respect each other and try to integrate instead of driving more wedges in the society. MQM is not really doing a service to the current situation by suggesting such measures. We need to unity not more divisions.

@Sunil How many provinces does India had at time of partition.. few (and some states were annexed by force). How many do you have now .. 29 and more to come. You have always bad wishes for Pakistan ... shame...

Before some start foaming at the mouth, MQM's demand is perfectly normal. More provinces mean more decentralization, better administration. Secondly, if the other 4 provinces are based on ethnicity and the Siraiki province can also be had, then what is wrong with having a province for Urdu speaking? This does not mean others are not allowed there. We have these silly mental blocks that are holding us back. In India, they have 40+ provinces so what will break in Pakistan if we add another province to represent Karachi and Urban areas of Sind? As it is, Karachi is large enough to be a province of its own.

Why people of Ummah fighting?

@Fahim Administrative partition or otherwise makes no sense. This is like the Mexicans in California saying that they want a Mexican state for the Spanish speaking population or the Turks in Gemany asking for a separate province.

@SachBol I am an urbanite Sindhi having been born and raised in Karachi. I do not support dividing Sindh into more provinces nor do I support MQM.

@nak New York Chicago and Los Angeles are huge cities with populations greater than 50% of their respective states. That does not mean that they should be made into separate states.

Why are Pakistanis opposing this division? Mohajirs are not asking for separation from Pakistan. New states are made on basis of language all the time. In India, so many states like Haryana, HImachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh etc were made on basis on language. So big deal. Why all this fuss?

I want to put a question if mohajir province is made then what will be the national language of Pakistan, because urdu will be the language of Mohajir province and provincial languages do not get the status of national language?

@Javeed Very well said. But friend. Isnt Punjab Sindh or Balochistan constituted on Etnicity basis>

@laddoo There is a difference between control and govern.

@Raja Islam... New York Chicago and Los Angele ..is not managed as karachi...and The Governor of New York is the head of the executive branch of New York's state...Wikipedia

@Raja Islam You seem to be missing the point. newyork chicago don't have the issues Karachi is facing. implement local body system and let the locals have their rights and power then no one will be asking for separate province.

@laddoo This is not nonsense this is reality.This is what people outside karachi dont understand. yes MQM has the majority in karachi but they have no powers. they dont have their fair share of resources. Why is their no local body system in karachi?

Govt. of Sindh should formulate to have administrative units than divisions on the basis of ethnicity.

The MQM is saying this after much frustration but this move is wrong. Sindhis welcomed Muhajirs and it was Bhutto who caused a big divide instead of bringing both together. The PPP leaders after him have used the muhajir card to scare the Sindhi voters. The MQM should now go to interior Sindh and make their new slogan: Roti, Kapra, Izzat. Let them bring land reform to Sindh and all that was promised by the PPP to Sindhis and then they will not have to ask for any provinces.

@Gaurav Arya Power game my friend. Zardari and Bilawal will be left with rural Sindh with no money. They'll loose Karachi where the main chunk of money comes from. So they're ok with other provinces split , not Sindh. Same old same old-- just like Kashmir they play with people's emotions.

More provinces is the need if the moment ----- but first ATLEAST do the LBs --- they're even more important.

@Zainab Ma'am have been reading your comments on many a issues and have found that you do have logical views to put across and also give out logical replies to other's comments. Hats Off to you. By the way, I am from India.

MQM and PPP are just fooling people, neither of them are serious in new provinces etc. they both want to protect their vote banks and this is Noora kushti. They both are friends, they create these slogans to fool people so that all Sindhis vote PPP and all Mohajirs vote MQM. In the evenings, both PPP and MQM leaders are one, sitting, drinking, eating together and laughing at how their Noora kushti have fooled people once again. Sindhis will think let's vote PPP so that they protect us from Urdu speaking and Urdu speaking will vote MQM so that they give them new province. One day Allah will act against both PPP and MQM InshaAllah

@Raja Islam Dude NYC and LA don't have 50% of state population. You might be confusing them with New York Metropolitan Area and either LA county or Greater LA Area, either way all of those are made up of several cities and administrative areas. In the case of LA county 88 separate cities.

@Sunil Ummm Indians are the ones who keep asking for more provinces. Telegana, chattisgarh, Haryana...

@laddoo Sindh government totally neglects Karachi. Doesn't matter how popular MQM is if the province doesn't release funds.

@haider shaikh who cares

Political gimmick by MQM, they wouldn't have not as much politics left if "mohajir" slogan is removed, Units should be admin based.

Urdu speaking people aren't mohajir any more. Forefathers of these MPAs were respectfully welcomed in Sindh by Sindhis. They were given more rights than local Sindhis by the government of the time and they still have more rights than Sindhi speaking population. Even if MQM is given whole Pakistan as a separate province they will still find other excuse for their failure.

@imran ali That is correct. However, it is not the Governor of New York City but of New York State who is the head of government. The same is true of the governor of Sindh. By the way the slight difference is due to the presidential versus the parliamentary system. Governors in the states are elected directly, whereas the Chief Minister in a parliamentary democracy is elected by the provincial assemble and the governor is apponted by the Federal Government.

@Saad Metropolitan areas or MSA's are composed of many small towns. These are administered separately at the local level, but are still part of the MSA. The state government manages the state. The population of the state of New York for example is 19.5 million while that of new York City alone is 8.4 million or 43% of the total. The population of Sindh is 30.5 million and that of the city of Karachi is 13.2 million which also comes out to be 43%. Now I am not looking at other demographics like ethnicity. So I still stand by my logic.

@Anti-MQm The facts are, It was always Sind government who never accepted mohajir as partner in Sind, you know the reason, Most of the Mohajir are well educated who live in urban area compare to exterior Sind where poor Sindi speaking people are deprived of education because of big Vadarys & Jagirdar are afraid if poor sindi people get education, they will not be able to keep them as slave. In my opinion government should change all existing provinces name, to something else, nation is already divided on language basis, Punjab is for who speak Punjabi, Sind is for who speak Sindi, Baluchistan is for who speak Balochi & KP is for who speak Pashto. Therefore MGM have right to ask for Mohaiir Province for Urdu speaking,

I knew it coming. MQM is justified in demanding for a new province. The Mohajirs have been side lined every where by Sindhi and Punjabis for the last fifty five years. Look around you will find the signs of decay of the largest city every where. The roads are dangerously un maintained, transport system stinks police force is a disgrace. Time has come, people of Karachi take over their city, reclaim their of revenue and build schools, universities, hospitals and transport system. Police force should be purged and locals should be hired. Bring back the old glory to Karachi, which was known as city of educated class and civilized people.

@M. Jan What did you say, it was your land.? How did you get this land.? The facts is (SIND)Pakistan was given to us by our great leader Qaid-E-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who was also Mahjir. Was there any Sindi leader who fought for freedom with Qaid-E-Azam.?

@Javeed ok so call it administration unit. What difference it makes so long people of Karachi proper have a fair chance to everything? Remove the quota system. Bring development and public services to people of Karachi same way as Lahore. Sindh government not giving due to attention to the needs of people of Karachi. Hence the frustration and demand for separate unit/province.

@Anti-MQM no.. we are not sindhi as you said let's face it. Hence should be separate province. Thanks for proving the point.

@Viking Star so federal government (punjab dominated) and Sindh government (Sindh rural dominated)are making people of Karachi suffer? What a backward power hungry mentality.

Karachi needs to be separated. PPPP does not do any work nor lets others do any work. PTI had also demanded a separate Hazara province, based on ethnicity right? There is already so much division in Pakistan, what is the good of pretending that we are living harmoniously? A new province can only do good. The way Pakistan is progressing, very soon we won't even tolerate each other's faces. We are heading towards a partition already.

@fida sayani, USA. Sadly...Pakistan is worse than India and you can tell by sitting in USA so will not be bad deal;)

@Anti-MQm what era is this from..60 years ago? Because in last 40 years I experienced the opposite. Thanks to discriminatory quota system.

@fida sayani, USA. It's fair. I'm for it. At least India has more tolerance and people are educated.

This tribalism,sectarianism has to stop some where.May be we have not hit the bottom yet. After a Mohajir province is formed,there will be a fight between Dilli Mohajir,Hyderabadi Mohajir,Behari Mohajir,Madrasi Mohajir. It is time we interrupt this cycle of ignorance and join progressive Nations.Reject nepotism,tribalism,corruption,and embrace justice and meritocracy.

@Harsh r u sure? The people that migrated had a big hand in the Pakistan creation. Forget much!

@M. Jan millions of Pakistanis in UK enjoy equal rights and better living standards, Khan sahab. They don't get out right discriminated based on their nationality. If you have grown up in Karachi in pure urdu speaking family, you don't have much opportunity because punjabi; pakhtoon and sindhi dominated civil services, law enforcement, educational institutions in Sindh won't allow them opportunity. This is facts. All those against the demand of separate province don't share the experience of third class in their own country

About time this was done but MQM thinks of it only when it is out fo power.

@Raja Islam - Isn't Raja Islam a typically Punjabi name?

Why does the demand for a separate province come up when the MQM is not in power? The urdu speaking should rise up and stop being blackmailed by MQM

@Adil Jadoon agree..should be hazara province also

It was in 1950s, indian states were reorganised on the basis of language - like, Maharashtra for Marathi, Karnataka for Kannada, Tamilnadu for Tamil, Andhra Pradesh for Telugu, Kerala for Maliyalam, Gujrath for. Gujrathi so on and so forth. History has in it to prove how well all these states have progressed in due course of time and immensely contributed to the growth of the great nation India. Something to be emulated by Pakistan.

Notice he is reading from a written statement. Based on body language he did not write it, the angle of his head suggests that he is trying hard to make out the words. You never do that with your own words.

NO to MQM province!

@Bahadur unfortunately people in power are narrow minded...they can't see beyond the hunger for power and control, alienating large number of karchites who are asking for development and social uplift.

@laddoo mian laddoo..can you explain how mqm controls karchi? Does IG police/SPs/DSPs/ comissioners/magistrates/ head of all key government postings are MQM appointees? Is Ranger under mqm control? Talk is cheap...look at the core problem. The point is ..There needs to be separate administrative unit to cover urban sind with local people running the government to address the needs of the citizens and that are not just urdu speaking people but everyone who live in Karachi.

@quest for justice - no Quaid-I-azam did"t migrate from any place, he was born in a small village called "Jherruck" now in that's district where he got his early education in Jherruck primary school , it's on the school record later he shifted to Karachi city with his parents for higher education , and he belonged to Ismaeli community. However it was Sindh assembly , in entire sub- contient which presented first resolution for eat establisment of Pakistan . And this resolution was presented by a Sindhi leader G. M Syed. And he advocated in favour of this resolution. Finally, Quaid-I-azam himself was Sindhi and belonged Ismaile sect locally , and he was born much before in Sindh, before creation of Pakistan. There are thousands of Sindhi leaders forefront struggling for Pakistan. There is little space here to mention all names , two leaders I have mentioned above along with Sir Abdullad Haroon.

@Javeed Think again. What are provinces based on? Obviously, some of the reasons are: differences in ethnicity, language, or administrative facilitation, to make it easy for the governors to govern and just, fair and convenient for the governed. If you close your eyes and say we are all one, ignore natural differences among the people and the ground realities, pay lip service to justice and fairplay and try to govern on the basis of sentimental slogans, without caring for the needs of the populace, what you get is the current PPP government of Sindh! In such a situation, demands for administrative division of Sindh are inevitable. Had they been fair, practiced good governance, kept the ordinary people’s interests uppermost in mind, voices for administrative division of Sindh would not have been raised.

As per international law, Muhajir don't have right to ask for share from those who protected them, allowed them. They are not sincere and they are enemies of pakistan.

Good luck to you. The Govt has no reason to deny you separate state. Let's see if they remain honest and do what they should have done in 50s.

No division of Sindh, let us divide Karachi, give rights to Punjabi, Balouch, Pathan and Sindhi in Karacahi. The poplulation of Karachi is not Muhajar, it is Urdu Speaking. Their grand father migrated no them.

If such division started - this will be endless. Same situation will happen like Palestine and Israel.

I strongly oppose the division of sindh......

Marsoon Marsoon Sindh na desoon, we will not allow to divide our motherland. never never........

Against of new province. Sindh can not b divided. ALL THE languages has right to live in sindh as an Pakistani and Sindhi.

I am against of new province or any type of divisions in Sindh Pakistan.

can some define Mohajirs, if you say they are Indians who migrated to Pakistan an Indian could be a punjabi,bihari,tamil, gujarathi muslims, what these Mohajirs forget is there language, food habits, culture is far deep rooted in there DNA than there religion which got converted. They left India to save Islam now they want to separate from Muslims brothers, is this a country or a birthday cake that everybody gets a portion

@QUEST FOR JUSTICE By the way Jinnah was Sindhi.

MQM (H) demand for new province in Landhi, HAHAHHAHAHHAHA

@Xoxo Bro there is something called constitution, which is not working on the basis of a single persons demand. Imran Khan with thousands of people is demanding something, he could not achieve. How can a MPA, whom we have never seen before can demand and get a separate province, Its ridiculous.

I am with division of Sindh for mohajir province...

It is such a nonsense demand ever, Sindh province is not that big in size that needs to be divided. Since the creation of Pakistan till today they have been saying they are "Muhajir" come on guys give us a break. Why you people forgot the moments when you came all the way with empty hands in Pakistan it was only the Sindh and Sindhi people those had given you a shelter to live in and share their own meals with you. Today, still you call yourself Muhajir and the discrimination is shown by you people. For God sake come to a point work together in betterment of Pakistan. This has been an old fashioned politics that political parties throw a stone of sects and language. I believe everyone is enough mature and can understand what is going on where and who is behind. The bottom line of all the things is You are a human being and a Muslim. A divide and rule seed was been brought up by the Farangies and they succeed and left but they left some people to lit their shoes and keep doing the things on their command. So, I personally request all you Pakistanis to come forward work as a team on the basis of humanity and being a responsible citizen.

I strongly oppose the division of sindh......

Pakistan came into being with the philosophy of confederation. There were five strong members of confederation viz; Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan, NWFP (KPK) and East Pakistan (Bnagladesh). By 1970, sentiments for national unity had weakened in East Pakistan to the extent that constant conflict between the two Wings dramatically erupted into mass civil disorder. This tragically resulted in the brutal and violent amputation of Pakistan’s Eastern Wing and the separation of East Pakistan was a great setback to Pakistan. Once again our Pakistani brothers repeating the same and they believe that it was sheer regional prejudice that all the advantages are taken by the others. I am not in favor of anybody accept my loving country Pakistan. I personally urged our brothers that please do not raise this separation question at this point of time, but think about Pakistan and Sindh and should be vigilant on development projects of Sindh Government. Pakistan Zindabad

Well! this shows that MQM is now party for Mohajars whereas there is no more Mohajars in Pakistan as more than 60 years ago our ancestors migrated and now since 2 generations we are here. When we born here then we are the citizens so MQM is just making it reason for votes but actually they are dividing the nation. There demand for baldiyati elections, effective administration is reasonable and they should fight for it. Rest even MQM can not pretend to be innocent as they were the one to initiate terror in karachi with "bhattha or parchi system" so called "Gunda tax" then mobile snatching. Later on same act was joined by other terror wings of political parties. So in the name of Pakistan our vote is for "NO". Shame on MQM and their intentions as they seem to promote the benefits of external sources who intend to divide Pakistan.

@Sunil, What nonsense. India has 38 states and U.SA has 52. Pakistan needs more provinces for fair administration of services to its people.

@I Love Pakistan, So it is okay to have a unit for Saraiki speaking people but not for urdu speaking people?

@Sunil It is British... not "Britishers"

@Harsh, Why would Muhajir's make Pakistan then? You make no sense.

@laddoo You better eat laddoo. New province is our destiny.

No need of any province in sindh

We will fight for sindh