Sindh, Pakistan

[Shehbaz Khan]

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Did anyone see this in Karachi.. Mohatta Palace

Brief Intro: The Mohatta Palace is located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It was built by Shivratan Chandraratan Mohatta, an ambitious self-made businessman from Marwar as his summer home in 1927. The architect of the palace was Agha Ahmed Hussain.[1] However, Mohatta could enjoy this building for only about two decades before independence of Pakistan and he left Karachi for India. He built the Palace in the tradition of stone palaces in Rajasthan, using pink Jodhpur stone in combination with the local yellow stone from Gizri. The amalgam gave the palace a distinctive presence in an elegant neighbourhood, characterised by Mughal architecture which was located not far from the sea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohatta_Palace

[Shehbaz Khan]

Show us street photos of sindhis , mister muhajir
The single photos doesn't mean anything as you said

Have you ever been to Karachi?
Have you been to Safora i.e., Gulistan-e-Johar Block 12
Sindhis are there on the streets.. Go to Civil hospitals and see for yourself .. Many doctors are ethnically Sindhi.

On street photos can be added

[Shehbaz Khan]

The mohajir invader :



The poor sindhis :

The Mohajir isn't an invader .. He is the Pakistani as much as the Sindhi is =]

What exactly the Sindhi leaders have done so far? Have a look at Larkhana? Go to Badeen?

If you don't do anything yourself .. don't complain..

[Karachi]

some areas of sindh also get snow in the winter, which is surprising since it is so far south:

it actually snows just 250 km north of karachi in the winter

there is a national park called Kirthar national park, in it there is a mountain range called kirthar range and Gorakh hill where it snows in the winter, the mountain range is around 1200-1600 meters high

here is the location of kirthar national park, look how close is it to Karachi: http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=k...ed=0CGgQ_AUoAg



interior sindh can get really cold in the winter, snow has been reported in other areas also, especially where there is some higher elevation

[Karachi]

some more pics I found of sindh:

[Levanaye Zalmaye]

Karachi is for everyone, Pashtun, Sindhi, Mohajir, Bengali, Bihari, Memon whatever.

Don't troll Bharati. Mohajirs came to Pakistan. They had to live somewhere. How did they 'invade' or 'colonize' the Sindhis?

Hmm..

The Mohajirs actually started rioting and butchering Sindhis and putting them into sacks during the 70s. You know why? Because the Sindhis wanted to protect their language and give it official recognition in Sindh.

Karachi isn't for everyone. Only today, two Pashtun laborers from Swat were murdered. Do you know why? Because they were Pashtun and the Mohajirs didn't want them here. Yesterday, even more Pashtuns were killed. Tomorrow, some more will die.

The Mohajirs don't want any census in Karachi that will show them as a minority. During last year's pre-census work, MQM men escorted all the census teams and made sure that their objectives were met. They don't want any new demarcations based on population in the city with regards to parliamentary seats. Three days ago, the Supreme Court ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan to mark new delimitations of Karachi's constituencies and the Mohairs responded by starting to kill Pashtuns.

The sad part is that the Punjabi army doesn't want to act against the MQM because Punjabis are being spared this time around. The Sindhi PPP has made peace with the MQM after Altaf ordered his people not to kill Sindhis. So the Pashtuns are left out to dry by their "Muslim brothers".

By the way, only a few years ago, I used to believe that only the semi-literate and middle-class Mohajirs of Gulshan, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Mahajir Camp and Orangi Town supported MQM but I've been proven wrong. MQM has popular support even amongst the Western-educated Mohajir elite. Many well-educated journalists (men and women), activists and professionals support the MQM. They will tell you that they don't always agree with the MQM's methods but at least "Altaf bhai ne hamain pehchaan di. Iss se pehle hamari koi pehchaan nahi thi".

Shehbaz Khan will agree that despite comprising more than 25% of Karachi's population, most Pashtuns are either not given the right to vote here (they are told by MQM-dominated NADRA Karachi that they should get their ID cards made in their villages in Pukhtunkhwa) or millions of Pashtuns are clustered together in West Karachi and the demarcations of the constituencies are done in such a way that Pashtuns don't make a majority for any seat.

The result? The Pashtuns only have two representatives from all of Karachi. So when the bodies start piling up, no one gives a damn. And if anyone believes that the Punjabi establishment and the Mohajirs of Sindh care about the welfare of Pashtuns, I think they're delusional. Karachi is Beirut. You watch out for your own because no one else watches out for you.

[Karachi]

^ the biggest problem with Sindh is that Karachi is the only major city, everybody from different ethnic backgrounds comes there, there are bound to be clashes and killings in these sort of situations, the real reason for the violence is (territorial), every ethnic groups wants a piece of karachi. MQM/Muhajirs control many parts of karachi and they would hate to loose any part of it, they feel threatened and than they resort to brutal violence against pashtuns, because pashtuns are the second biggest ethnic group there.

Muhajirs like everybody come in many different forms, there are relgious ones, nationalistic/secular ones and the poor ones. Out of these the nationlistic/secular ones are the biggest MQM supporters, in fact much of the top leadership of MQM is made of these people, even the (media) ones you mentioned are these. The poor muhajirs have no choice, they are often just paid or forced by MQM to support them. The religious muhajirs however do not support MQM for obvious reasons, they are against their brutal tactics which are totally un islamic.

I think the situation in Karachi can not be solved, the only way to even come near solving it is to perhaps make more cities in sindh, just like in Punjab which has 7 or 8 big cities, this way all the populations living in sindh can be spread out and no more territorial wars will happen, at least one hopes

[ډګروال]

sindh looks mysterious
i love it.

[abassinafghan]

then move to sindh and stay there , you will fit perfectly in ...

you belong there ...

[Khostai]

Pakis looks just like Indians why do you peopel seperated in the first place -_-.

[Karachi]

^ religion made them separate, Ironically (India) derived it's name from (Sindh)

[MostafaM]

^ Wrong.

Pork eating and alcohol sipping Ismaili called Jinnah made them separate.

Religion had very little to do with that process.

[Karachi]

^ Religion was used as a tool, that's what I meant to say

[MostafaM]

I can agree on that!

;-)

[Khostai]

They should unite man. I hoope one day Pakistan and India would unite.