The Sindh Minister for Local Government Agha Siraj Durrani has ordered the city administration to remove graffiti on Karachi’s walls by the Mohajir Suba Tehreek, as well as billboards and banners placed by the group. Durrani has also asked for action to be taken against the administration of areas where the graffiti appeared.
The Mohajir Suba Tehreek, which has been campaigning for the creation of a separate province for Sindh, has been advertising its demands through graffiti on walls, posters and a ‘newsletter’, which was placed at several locations including outside the Karachi Press Club. It has also been organising protests throughout the city and several supporters of the movement held placards for it at funerals for MQM workers recently.
While the MQM has denied any ownership of and support for the group, a legislator from the party did raise the question in the Sindh Assembly whether, given the demands, there was a possibility to open negotiations with the group and find out why they were asking for a separate province.
The Mohajir Suba Tehreek has been a source of contention within the province. Legislators who moved and backed a resolution against the group in the Sindh Assembly received threatening text messages and letters, while nationalist parties accused the PPP of not acting against the group.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 20th, 2012.
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90 percent mohajir already move to karachi so sindhis can live happliy ion their notheren sindh
we want mohajir soba
no new provinces can be made! but it is a conspiracy against sindhu desh as urdu speakings and sindhis have realized that they are both suppressed by the state of pakistan so what better than divide and rule
@bilal: Regarding Muhajir dominated areas. Besides cities which u mentioned, Muhajirs also dominate in Tando Allahyar, Tando Adam, Nwabshah, shahdad pur sanghar and khairpur.
@bilal: U (so called ) pakistanis are pakistanis due to these indian immigrants. Otherwise would have been ruled by hindus and Sikhs. All census in Pakistan specially after dhaka fall are fake particularly in Sindh.
muhajir suba will never come true... pakistanis out number indian immigrants .. urdu only make 40% of karachi now. as compared 70%-80% in 1951 !!paktuns make up 25% of karachi now. sindhis still a minority but have increased alot since 1998 census ! if muhajir suba comes true. that wud be a the last day of pakistan. but ironically muhajir suba contains areas were sindhis make 80-95% of the area. check the map and calculate the population and statics of southern sindh and areas for muhajir suba. the only areas where urdu speakers have strong hold area karachi,hyderabad, and some parts of mirpur khas and sukkur . creating a muhajir suba will cause a big civil war in sindh ! so i say no to muhajir suba as for seraiki suba. southern punjab was orignally a part of sindh until the sikhs took over it only giving bhawalpur to sindh. bhawalpur then was taken over by the british.look the history sindh and southern punjab were one united emirate .the meaning of the word seraiki it self means northern !!
Very right commented by other readers.
PPP has opened an endless pandora box only for their political wills.
It would have been better for PPP to start debate on large dams and controvertial power projects to eliminate power scarcity in the country causing heavy losses to industry and public at large instead more provinces.
PPP has no idea what kind of rabbit hole it has ventured into through seraiki province pandora box... these mohajirs claim to be responsible for the partition in '47, and they're gradually coming out of closet now through this new province for themselves...
Now this is called dirty politics....seraki suba is just democratic and mohajir suba is to be crushed.....typical ppp double face......ppp started all this to damage the pmln in punjab but looks will end up in this whirlpool losing the sind rural vote.....you dig a grave for others and ultimately end up yourself.
PPP, for their political gains had started this game of dividing the province of Punjab without realizing that there will be no end to this game. By removing the wall chalking the Sind Govt will not be able suppress this demand.