Author's note: I am of multiple ethnicities, including Muhajir ethnicities. So before even attempting to accuse me of prejudice all this should be taken into account. This is another post on ethnic politics in Pakistan but mostly focuses on Pakistan's Muhajir population.
Most politically aware Pakistanis know by now that most of our country's media is acting as a traitor and is dominated by Pakistan's best known fifth columnists that I pointed out in my other posts.
But what most people don't mention when discussing the fifth column of Pakistan and their dirty agenda is the ethnic backgrounds of both the well known and not so well known fifth columnists.
This problem of anti-Pakistan propaganda and promotion of self-hatred towards Pakistan is not just persistent in the treacherous Pakistani media, but also in regular life where one comes across a certain group of people who complain about everything in Pakistan like no other and always compare it to the "better" aspects of India.
They make the most absurd comparisons between the two countries from Air India's in-flight services to that of Pakistan International Airlines' (PIA). From animal conservation laws in both countries to religious extremism.
Most of these comparisons are again drawn out of nowhere and again whether in the media or in regular life conversations, these particular people never miss a chance to badmouth Pakistan and compare it to India by pulling out half-truths.
Only recently did my search to identify these people lead me to a certain group of corrupt elites in the upper class and some in the upper middle class.
More recently did my search narrow down even further to establish a pattern that these groups and individuals consist entirely of Muhajirs.
As my other post and this article's origins section explains, the Muhajirs are not a single ethnic group as commonly perceived.
They come from all over India including Gujarat, New Delhi, Hyderabad Deccan, Utter Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and other parts of the subcontinent. This is one main commonality and also they mainly speak Urdu as a language of intercommunication. But their strongest commonality outside language, religion and foreign ancestry is their politics, mentality and social structure in Pakistani society.
The Muhajir upper class is what comes into focus when the questions of who are Pakistan's treacherous fifth columnists and what motivates them arise.
Most of Pakistan's Muhajir upper class are the biggest critics of Pakistani society and are the ones we see in the fifth column media as well as regular life. They complain about Pakistan like no other. Even Sindhi and Baloch nationalists do not compare to these upper class Muhajirs when complaining everything about and inside Pakistan.
What's most ironic in the majority of their complaints and criticisms of Pakistan is that they are actually describing their own Muhajir middle class as well as their own faults which they also blame on Pakistan.
I and many others like myself can provide countless examples of such, but they obviously all cannot be covered in the post so I'll mention only a few and the most significant ones.
I was once watching independence day celebrations on TV back in the summer of 2005 which were taking place at the Quaid-i-Azam's Mazar in Karachi.
It was there that an upper class Muhajir spoke up in Urdu that we have as a country have a lot to feel bad about because during independence we have almost entirely ethnically cleansed religious minorities whereas in India a Sikh has become a prime minister.
What he was referring to was the atrocities committed by the Muhajirs against non-Muslims upon their arrival into Pakistan, particularly Karachi and the rest of Sindh.
But instead of pointing out this as the dirty work of the Muhajirs, he like many upper class Muhajirs decided to blame it on the Pakistani people.
Another case was when a Muhajir friend of one of my parents stayed at our house when visiting North America.
When helping her with her baggage during her departure from our house, I noticed that she had a PIA tag on her bag. I asked her how she enjoyed her flight on PIA (PIA has great in-flight service, especially on North American routes), she immediately went into a long lecture on how she hated it and how the religious Pakistanis blocked the aisles during prayers and flooded the bathrooms just to clean themselves before the prayers.
She went on and on about how she was ashamed of Pakistan and being born in Karachi and that she was planning on giving up her Pakistani citizenship.
There are two things in this example that upper class Muhajirs normally complain about, but again label them as Pakistani faults instead of Muhajir faults.
One is the religious extremists on the flight who made it unpleasant. Most Pakistanis and others familiar with Pakistan know for a fact that middle class and even some upper class Muhajirs are the most religiously extreme people in the country. They take religion to such an extreme even more so than the Arabs do.
The Muhajir upper class in the media and even in regular life frequently complain on how extreme their middle class is. But while describing their middle class and their extremism, the Muhajir upper class calls them "Pakistanis" instead of specifically calling them Muhajirs.
Even the Muhajir fifth columnists who spread anti-Pakistan propaganda in the media constantly describe these radical middle class Muhajirs and their barbaric interpretation of Islam.
They complain on how religious "Pakistanis" are and blame Zia Ul-Haq and the Pakistani military for radicalizing these "Pakistanis."
But never do these upper class Muhajirs dare give a brief insight or even dare mention the ethnic backgrounds of these ultra-radical "Pakistanis."
While it's true that there are religious extremists in Pakistan's indigenous ethnic groups, particularly middle and lower class Punjabis, Pakhtuns and Kashmiris, it still does not compare much to the kind of religious extremism of the Muhajir middle and lower classes.
The other point in that case of my parent's frustrated Muhajir friend I wanted to touch upon was her shame in being born in Karachi.
The Muhajirs regularly put down and complain about Karachi and use it as an example to highlight the failures of Pakistan. None of these upper class Muhajirs stop to think and ask themselves who governed the city since independence till present day? Muhajirs. These are amongst the countless cases of upper class Muhajirs blaming their faults on the Pakistani people and society.
Whenever criticizing Pakistan and "Pakistanis," they are actually describing their own neglect on the city they control and their fellow backward lower and middle class Muhajirs.
These are the very same upper class Muhajirs who have infested Pakistan's media and try to pin their faults onto the people of Pakistan.
Pakistan's most active and best known fifth columnists Pervez Hoodbhoy, Ahmed Rashid, Asma Jahangir, Ayesha Jalal, Irfan Husain, Najam Sethi, Tarek Fatah and Dr Farrukh Saleem are all Muhajirs even if some of them might be partially Pakistani. These people only write columns and make public speeches and commentaries that fit two main categories:
Blaming and accusing Pakistan for all global unrest and trying to always prove India is a "better" country than Pakistan.
Whenever they write about India's imaginary superiority, they do so from a rich person's perspective.
They constantly ravage on and on about India's billionaires and stay silent to the fact that India is the poorest country in the world. And I'm not trying to be negative towards India or Indian people, but simply stating a fact. Most of the Indian population live in some of the worst conditions a human being could ever live in. Northern India alone has more poor people than the entire continent of Africa!
Add to that it has half the entire world's hungry population and largest population of people carrying aids and HIV. Is this the kind of country we want to make Pakistan?
But all of this is deliberately ignored by the Muhajir upper class. They only talk about the success of the rich in India and stay silent on the country being at the bottom of the world in almost every other field. When claiming that Muslims in India are "more successful," they are referring to those two or three rich, successful Muslims in industries like Bollywood.
They are not referring to those millions of Indian Muslims living in poverty and suffering from discrimination. Those millions of poor and middle class Muslims in India don't even exist for all our Muhajir upper class cares.
This is why it's important to re-interpret the message that the Muhajir upper class is trying to convey and the message is quite clear when re-interpreted. That they (the Muhajir upper class) would live in wealth and success despite the rest of the country lying in ruins and it's people living in absolute poverty.
If one were to take the Muhajir claim that India is a "better country" than Pakistan literally, it would not make sense at all. The statistics of the two countries shows quite the opposite.
But when looking at the rich elites of India that the Muhajirs are obsessed about, their situation is the opposite to the rest of the country's population. The power they hold over Indian society, both with the help of the caste system and their financial power, they rule over it like kings and queens.
This is the kind of financial and political power many in the Muhajir upper class desire for. Such ambitions are nothing short of dreams. Such influence was available to them in Pakistan before the Punjabi dominated military's rise to ultimate power.
This is the reason behind their constant condemnation of Pakistan's military which does not share it's powers with others.
This again is a requirement of having to re-interpret the Muhajir upper class's claim that India is a "more free and democratic country."
What they are trying to imply in this case is that they could enjoy the taste of full political and financial power without always having the annoying military coming in the way.
In India the balance of power between the military and civilian elites is shared. The military in India enjoys the same privileges as the Pakistani military does with huge financial sums going into their budget as well as enjoying free defense housing in India's main cities.
The main difference between the Indian military and their Pakistani counterparts is that they have never ousted an Indian civilian government and the reason is that various Indian governments have had the same agenda as the military such as BJP warmongers ready to occupy the whole of Kashmir and go to war with China over land disputes.
In Pakistan the politicians and the military have not exactly been on the same agenda. The politicians would prefer to see the taxpayer's money go into their own pockets instead of the military's budget, not because they are committed to peace in the region or anything of that sort.
The fact that the Indian military has never had the need to oust a civilian government in India is a cause of joy for the Muhajir upper class who feel their dreams have been shattered by Pakistan's armed forces.
This is why the Muhajir controlled media of Pakistan touts India to be a "more democratic" country than Pakistan.
Again, what they are trying to imply is that they would benefit from wealth and power had Pakistan been more like India.
The Muhajir upper class has despised Pakistan's military ever since it reduced their influence over Pakistani society under General Zia Ul-Haq.
This fifth columnist anti-Pakistan propaganda media is their only 'weapon' against the military and the people of Pakistan.
While discussing Pakistan's treacherous Muhajir controlled media, I recently learned something interesting from a friend of one of my parents, whom I was recently employed with, about the Pakistani Muhajir controlled media.
He told me that during his youth which was the 1960s and 1970s, the very same Muhajir controlled media used to preach hatred against "Hindus" and non-Muslims.
Another irony in a whole series of ironies concerning the corrupt hypocrite Muhajir upper class.
Perhaps because in the first few decades of independence, their Brahman relatives in India refused to share their power with them that they decided to spur hatred against them. Then slowly when the Brahman upper caste decided to incorporate a few Muslim proxies into their house of wealth, the Muhajir upper class decided India and the Brahmans aren't so bad for Muslims after all, especially for rich Muslims like themselves.
And when the Punjabi dominated military decides to no longer share it's power with them, what better time for the Muhajir upper class to change their propaganda war from being against non-Muslim "infidels" to the Pakistani state that shattered their dreams of living complete in wealth and feudalism.
Perhaps it is no coincidence during 1980s that saw the replacement of Muhajir hegemony in Pakistani society to that of Punjabis is also the decade that Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy is said to have turned into the country's leading fifth columnist upon his return from America where he received his university education.
Prior to that it is claimed that he would actually defend Pakistan in his political commentaries and publications, though I don't know how true that is.
Perhaps it is also no coincidence that the MQM came into existence as an organization serving Muhajir interests before eventually renaming itself the Mutahidda Qaumi Movement.
While mentioning the MQM, it is worthy to note that most of the Westernized Muhajir upper class does not associate itself with this organization. Most upper class Muhajirs don't stand for a common sense of "Muhajirhood" but rather their own individual ethnicities and cultures.
The so-called "partition of India and Pakistan" is another lie invented by the upper caste Brahmans of India and echoed by Pakistan's Muhajir upper class.
Not surprisingly, it is the Muhajir upper class and upper middle class who today are the biggest champions in Pakistan of the false claim that Indians and Pakistanis are "the same people."
When Muhajirs claim Pakistanis and Indians being "the same," they are actually referring to themselves.
Many of them in public life and the media discuss relentlessly on their trips to India and how they could never differentiate between the people living there and themselves.
This is the level of ignorance that they live in. They must think the other ethnic groups of Pakistan and their languages and cultures simply don't exist. All those millions of Balochis, Pakhtuns, Sindhis, Kashmiris and others don't exist for them, much like all those millions of poor Muslims living in the slums of Mumbai and New Delhi don't exist to them either.
These upper class Muhajirs also complain about how so many Western tourists visit India, but not Pakistan and try to play on this fact to depict India as a "better country."
The reason is because the Muhajirs, like the Brahman upper caste of India live in worship of white people, particularly Westerners.
In India Westerns feel very welcomed despite their description of the horrible conditions that India is in. Even a Dutch diplomat once wrote how New Delhi was the worst capital he'd ever served in. Regardless, despite the terrible conditions and poor infrastructure compared to cities like Lahore, Islamabad or Sialkot, Westerners feel more secure and welcomed in India than they do in Pakistan where they are regarded with suspicion.
Upper class pro-Western/Indian Muhajirs also make no notice of the many Chinese visitors that come to Pakistan. This is because the Chinese are not regarded with the same superiority by them as Westerners are.
I for one could not care any less if foreigners visit my country or not. It is not as important as having a developed and sustainable country, which sadly neither India or Pakistan are.
Sure it would be nice to have foreign guests who would like to learn about our country and culture(s), but is it really that important or is it the Muhajir upper class living in their typical Western worship again?
Today even the Bangladeshis have become a favorite for Pakistan's Muhajir upper class and their media.
Perhaps this is because the Muhajirs in Bangladesh have been forgiven for their crimes in aiding the Pakistani military in their mass murder of Bengali civilians and have also been accepted into Bangladeshi society.
So today another fault of the Muhajirs which was inciting the 1971 war by refusing Bengali or any other language equal statues to Urdu, they choose to shift the entire blame onto the military of Pakistan and also want to send the Pakistani people into a guilt trip for the 1971 war.
Also the Muhajir propaganda machine seems to today be hell bent on depicting Bangladesh and it's people as "better" and more sophisticated compared to Pakistan and it's people.
This false belief persists in many arrogant and fascist Bangladeshis and is now today aided by the Muhajir controlled media.
While Bangladesh is depicted by the Muhajirs as a "better country," the Muhajirs have allowed the Sindh province to become a dumping ground for millions of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
How much more self-contradictory can one get? On the one side claiming Bangladeshis are "smarter" and "better" and on the other side turning Pakistan, particularly Sindh into a dumping ground for Bangladeshi and Afghan immigrants.
It also takes us back to my earlier claim that wealth and power is what the Muhajir upper class is all about.
Because the Bangladeshi people have decided to give their relatives influential roles in Bangladeshi society, the upper class Muhajirs have decided that Bangladesh is a "better country" than Pakistan because it's people will share their wealth and power with them; whereas in Pakistan the main political and economic powers are mainly restricted to the Punjabi dominated military.
The growth of the Indian economy suddenly seems to fill the Muhajir upper class with false pride. When one tries to point out to an average upper class Muhajir the fact that India's poverty exceeds that of Africa's entire poverty or even puts forward statistical facts that prove India is the opposite of what they try to depict it as, the three usual replies one gets from the upper class Muhajir is:
"But they have one of the fastest growing economies" or "I didn't know that" when answering to the fact that India has so many poor people. The third typical answer is that they will get up and walk away from the conversation, knowing they cannot deny the facts.
I've experienced the first two most of the time, one of my Pakhtun friends has experienced the third.
It again calls for an interpretation of what the upper class Muhajirs are trying to state. And that is that they would be the beneficiaries like their Brahman relatives regardless of how poor and undeveloped the country is.
Today much of the Muhajir upper class has become nothing more than an outpost of the Indian government in Pakistan. They have become the mouthpiece of the Indian government in Pakistan and our Muhajir fifth column led by Pervez Hoodbhoy aid the Indian propaganda machine against Pakistan.
Many Indian news agencies are known for publishing false, but isolated reports about what happens in Pakistan and what Pakistan does. Sometimes it is even the opposite of what actually happens.
Weather it is deliberately misquoting Western politicians and military leaders on Pakistan, or any quote or case that seems to work in favor of India but against Pakistan, it's noticeable that only Indian news agencies report these. Such reports only weaken the credibility of these ridiculous Indian news agencies.
One great example was a photograph from an Israeli raid in the Palestinian territories that was taken by an Indian news outlet and depicted as the 2009 Lahore police academy attack.
It was an epic failure as the Israeli vehicle in the picture had Hebrew writing on it when the Indian media was trying to depict it as a Pakistani Police vehicle.
When Pakistan was close to bankruptcy a few years ago, our leaders went to China to appeal for economic assistance. The Chinese government responded that it could not guarantee it's help since China was facing a severe economic crisis itself.
This was again twisted around by the Indian media and misquoted that China simply rejected Pakistan's appeal. Such lies and propaganda are published by the Indian media on an almost daily basis. Such fictitious material again comes out of only the Indian propaganda media and it's Muhajir assistants in Pakistan.
Another great example was when Pakistan cracked down against Uighur insurgents wanted by the Chinese government which was later condemned by the World Uighur Congress for doing so. It was only the Indian media that drew out the false report that China had asked Pakistan to "stop 'supporting' Uighur terrorists."
This claim was repeated by no other than Pakistan's second most senior fifth columnist Ahmed Rashid when he wrote an article alleging that Pakistan "has no friends in the region."
In our cries against America for violating our sovereignty, we have never stopped even once to protest against the Brahman upper caste of India and their Muhajir relatives for the same violations. The Muhajir upper class have literally turned major portions of our country into Indian colonies.
Never did we Pakistanis even once publicly ask ourselves why we freely gave away our sovereignty to these pro-Indian Muhajirs who behave nothing more than an outpost of the Indian government in Pakistan.
This should pose as an important question to many in the Punjabi elite class, especially the military and civil bureaucracy who have used these Muhajirs for generations as political puppets to control the other ethnic groups of Pakistan opposed to Punjabi hegemony.
While the fifth column makes treacherous claims against Pakistan in their articles, TV seminars, lectures and other publications, they do it anywhere they please weather in India, the West or in the very heart of Pakistan.
There are also Sindhi and Baloch nationalists who spur similar propaganda against Pakistan, but for the wrong reasons. I had written before against Sindhis and Balochis jumping on the Muhajir bandwagon in always blaming the Pakistani military and ISI for everything wrong that happens to them.
While the Baloch and the Sindhi nationalists are right to oppose the Pakistani military's brutal tactics and exploitation of their lands and people, they are wrong to turn to the Muhajir upper class.
Even before and after the military's rise to power in Pakistan before reducing Muhajir control over the country, the military was still exploiting the Sindhi and Baloch populations.
Also what Sindhi and Baloch nationalists seem to have forgotten is these upper class Muhajirs are against the Punjabi dominated military for two reasons.
One is they wish to be the feudal lords of Pakistan instead of the Punjabi elite class, including the military.
Secondly, the blame that the Muhajir upper class is trying to shift onto the military such as the atrocities in 1971 is part of their tactic of always blaming their faults onto Pakistanis. It does not matter if it is the Punjabi military or some other.
The Muhajir upper class had the responsibility of investing in education for their middle and lowers classes and investing in Karachi's infrastructure since they were in control of the city, but they did not. Today they are stuck with a terribly unclean, undeveloped city and a middle/lower class of Muhajirs, most of whom are semi-literate religious fanatics.
But as usual, they choose to blame the insanity of their fanatical middle and lower classes onto the people of Pakistan by calling these middle/lower class Muhajirs "Pakistanis."
Karachi, the city they have ruled since independence that could have turned into a successful port city like Dubai, New York or Istanbul. Instead the Muhajirs lay it to waste and today it's ruined state is used by the Muhajir upper class to try and defame Pakistan.
Instead of investing their money into education, infrastructure, health care and other areas of development, they kept much of their wealth to themselves.
This was their very reason for coming to Pakistan. They came to satisfy their own greed.
It's not to suggest that all Muhajirs are like that, but the majority of them in the upper class are.
The claim that they came to Pakistan as a result of persecution seems rather far fetched now since there are many more Muslims who stayed in India than those who left. Their claims of persecution also today seem even more dubious when many upper class Muhajirs live in regret for immigrating to Pakistan and they also seem to be so bent on trying to depict India as some sort of "paradise."
It is also interesting how the Muhajirs use Karachi's pitiful condition to put down Pakistan and it's people.
Many of them ravage on how they visited London or New York or Paris or Kuala Lampur or Istanbul or some other city and how it was much more civilized compared to Karachi. The upper class Muhajirs seem to live in a bubble and that bubble is Karachi.
Never do these treacherous upper class Muhajirs dare compare these cities to Lahore or Islamabad. To them those cities and the successes of Pakistan is simply unthinkable.
I wondered for a long time why Muhajirs are so silent on the achievements of Pakistan while exaggerating or at times even blatantly lying about India's imaginary advantages over Pakistan and soon the answer became more clearer to me.
Most of the technological achievements and best educational facilities in Pakistan are in the Punjab province. Though it might be true that they sometimes use stolen Balochi and Sindhi resources, the fact is the Punjabi elite class, both military and civilian, are behind the most technological achievements in South Asia.
Weather it is in advanced technology or infrastructure, the Punjabi elite class is behind the majority of these. Knowing the grudge the Muhajir upper class has had towards the Punjabi elite class, particularly the military for overpowering them, the Muhajir upper class would never want to openly admit their advancement in any field. This is also because they for the most part are incapable of producing anything sophisticated themselves.
The Muhajir upper class are in fact quite the opposite and Karachi's terrible condition is living proof of that. They are simply a continuation of the Indian population as I keep stating. Ruining and destroying everything in their path. And as already mentioned, they blame this on the Pakistani people.
Today Karachi looks like nothing more than an Indian city. Overpopulated, polluted, lacking in even basic infrastructure, a dumping ground for illegal immigrants. Most Punjabi towns and cities are also not very developed, but much more so when compared to Karachi. Islamabad is a completely developed city and so are parts of Lahore. Sialkot is another city that seems to be on it's way to development.
Many would again argue that it is due to Punjab stealing resources from the other provinces. This is partially true, but I also feel the main reason is the Punjabis were wise not to let the Muhajirs invade their province. They do suffer a bit from East Punjabi Muhajirs, but it still hasn't turned Punjab into a Muhajir stronghold the way Karachi and other parts of Sindh have.
Even defense housing authority in Karachi is more developed than other parts of the city. It is partially because it is located at the edge of the city where there is less population but I also feel it's because it was set up by the Punjabi military.
So in a bid to hide their jealousy over the Punjabis and their advantages, the Muhajir controlled media in Pakistan covers up all sorts of developments in Pakistan weather they are in science, infrastructure, education, health care or any other.
However, any small 'development' in India hits the front pages of the Muhajir controlled media for ages. They continue to be talked about and deliberately exaggerated until the Muhajirs are convinced the Pakistani public will never forget that their Brahman relatives are "more advanced" than the Punjabis and the rest of the Pakistani population.
Weather it is the subway system in New Delhi or some other small development, the Muhajir upper class shines with false pride for ages and exaggerates this development while deliberately ignoring the fact that despite having a subway system, New Delhi is a terribly developed city and national capital in comparison to Islamabad.
The Muhajir upper class have long touted to the Pakistani people that India has a history of ingeniously building it's technology, mainly the time period that covered the Cold War era; whereas Pakistan imported everything.
As everything else the Muhajir upper class touts about India, I find this claim to be equally dubious. Throughout it's history the Indian aviation industry imported civil airliners, mainly from Boeing and Airbus which are both American and European firms.
This is true for just about every airline industry in the world with Boeing and Airbus being the two main suppliers of aircraft, especially in the medium and long haul sector.
So if India was building everything indigenously during the Cold War era, what explains the induction of foreign made Boeings and Airbuses in it's airline industry? Air India was one of the first customers of the Boeing 747 which first came out in the 1960s. Then there's also the case of massive arms imports from the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was India's closest ally and biggest weapons supplier throughout the Cold War. Even India's nuclear weapons program is known to have had Soviet involvement.
Again how exactly does this all fit the Muhajir claim that India was building everything indigenously?
And as already discussed even today when some technology is built in India, it is often exaggerated as "entirely indigenous" by the Indians and the upper class Muhajirs. Whenever an "Indian car" or "Indian helicopter" or "Indian fridge" is made, it haunts the Pakistani media and is exaggerated or at times it being Indian at all is entirely a lie.
I've come to suspect that all these supposed "Indian" cars, fridges, helicopters and other technologies are imported from abroad but assembled in India under license. India has a long history of importing foreign technology and assembling them under license. Them being put together in India somehow gives Brahman Indians and their brotherly upper class Muhajirs the belief that they automatically become "Indian inventions."
Pakistan also has a history of assembling submarines, tanks and planes, but it is well known they are not Pakistani inventions. For example the French designed Augusta submarine has been imported and assembled in Pakistan's shipyards, but never depicted as a "Pakistani submarine" as far as I can remember.
Most of these technologies are also built under license from Pakistan.
Even the JF-17 Thunder designed jointly by China and Pakistan is nothing much to be proud of until both countries can independently build key components of the plane.
But other than that Pakistanis don't claim to be behind the invention of these imported technologies the way Indians and the upper class Muhajirs restlessly lie about imported fridges from Japan or technology imported from elsewhere and simply assembled in India as "indigenously made by India."
There are also joint aircraft production projects by aeronautical firms in India. One particular project is the development of a short haul jet aircraft that seats about a hundred people. The current name for this plane is "Indian Regional Jet." According to sources that I've come across, this plane will be powered by American built engines and will use American avionics.
But I don't expect the Indian media or the Muhajir controlled media in Pakistan to make a note of this. Once this plane enters production, the first reaction from the Muhajir upper class will be barking that India can make planes and that Pakistan can't build anything.
As everything else, they will lie about how "indigenous" this plane is while continuing to cover up every technological advancement of Pakistan, which again the Punjabis are mostly behind.
The video below best explains what I have been discussing all along:
Another very noticeable thing about these hypocritical Muhajirs for a Pakistani living abroad is while they choose to depict India and Bangladesh as shinning paradises, none of them actually bother to go and live in those countries.
All the Muhajirs I meet abroad or those I hear leaving Pakistan out of hatred for our country, they all settle in Western countries and obtain British, Canadian, American and other Western citizenships.
Even with their foreign passports, none of them actually bother to apply for an Indian visa and move into a mud shack or apartment building in the slums of Bombay, Dhaka or New Delhi.
I have yet to meet or at least hear/read of a single Muhajir who would move to what they would call "paradise on Earth."
Instead as I just mentioned, they choose to live in the West or even more hypocritically, they settle in the developed cities of Punjab. Most of Pakistan's leading fifth columnists are ironically settled in Punjab of all places on Earth. Pervez Hoodbhoy lives in Islamabad. So does Asma Jahangir and Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Najam Sethi and Ahmed Rashid reside in Lahore. Ayesha Jalal lives in the USA the last time I checked. Irfan Husain has spent a great deal of his life in Punjab and in Europe where he is now permanently settled in.
Instead of residing in the filth infested slums of India or Bangladesh or even Karachi which they are mostly responsible for ruining, they hypocritically prefer to comfort themselves with all the advanced infrastructure built by the Punjabis.
The list of ironies only grows bigger.
This to me only proves their envy of Punjabis and the rest of the Pakistani population of their advancement over themselves.
This advancement is what creates such insecurity amongst the upper class Muhajirs that they deliberately hide/ignore all the advancements of Pakistan but exaggerate all the positive but insignificant things about Indians and Bangladeshis.
A new trend about the upper class Muhajirs that my attention has recently been drawn towards is their objection to Pakistan's alliance with China.
I had noticed for at least a few years that the Indian Brahmans are actually trying to reach out towards China and speak highly of that country, though I don't see a mutual interest coming from the Chinese side.
Some of the Indian Brahmans have actually gone as far as to blame Pakistan as the obstacle that comes between them and China.
The Indian ruling class must be naive to think their border disputes that have infuriated Beijing have anything in the slightest to do with Pakistan.
Even the 1962 war between India and China had no involvement from the Pakistani side as far as anyone can prove. In fact India's harboring of the Dali Lama and vocal support for Tibet's secession has only further angered China and strengthened ties with Pakistan and gained a common Chinese stand on the Kashmir issue.
Pakistan's strategic position, it's role in fighting militancy, including Uighur separatist militancy, and decades of common interests and mutual trust have made it a close and reliable ally for China.
The alliance has left India in a cold spot. This has upset the Brahmans who detest the decreasing ties with China while Pakistan's relations with China have only grown stronger.
This has also terribly dismayed the Muhajir upper class in Pakistan who cannot stand to see their relatives across the border loose out in all of this.
Over the past few months I've seen a sudden surge of columns coming out of the Muhajirs in the Pakistani media trying to cast doubt on Pakistan's alliance with China, claiming China only cares about it's interest and will abandon Pakistan if it no longer has anything beneficial to gain from Pakistan.
Irfan Husain has claimed that had it not been for a common enmity with India, China would have no interest in Pakistan. He and all the upper class Muhajirs must think all the decades of trade, investments and exchange of aid during crucial times and Pakistan's refusal to be used as a base for Uighur militancy and other fields of partnership have anything at all to do with India.
Ahmed Rashid as mentioned repeats the Indian media's claim that Pakistan has been "supporting" Uighur separatism though no other media claimed such nonsense.
Other Muhajir columnists have touted that Pakistan 'needs' India and must co-operate with India. Of course they must be deaf like the Indian government to constantly ignore Pakistan's repeated calls for co-operation and negotiations.
What these pro-Indian upper class Muhajirs also don't realize is that there's a difference between simple common interests and trust. Pakistan and China not only share common interests, but have developed trust for one another after at least fifty years of friendship. Why else do they think all those cultural events held by Chinese and Pakistani people if not to celebrate brotherly ties between the two countries?
China and Pakistan's friendship may have started out from having a common enemy, but today the two countries have many common interests and goals which have nothing to do with having India as a common enemy.
The Muhajirs are clearly upset to see their host country in conflict with their beloved home country. They are also frustrated that China has shown no interest in mutually returning the friendship offered by their Brahman relatives and has only further strengthened it's alliance with Pakistan.
They are upset about their beloved India being left out of the Chinese-Pakistani club.
These are the reasons behind those idiotic columns the Muhajir media has recently been promoting to the Pakistani population.
The Muhajir upper class in Pakistan are clearly a frustrated and power hungry people who have not changed from their caste system ways even after their forefathers' conversion to Islam from caste based Brahmanism.
They are not taken seriously anywhere in Pakistan. For at least thirty years they have been publishing anti-Pakistan propaganda which has gone ignored by much of the Pakistani population.
While they have a large audience amongst the classes of their own kind (remember middle and lower class Muhajirs are mostly different), they are mostly ignored by the rest of the population. They and their sentiments are nothing more than a pathetic joke.
But the problem occurs when they try to depict themselves as Pakistanis in the eyes of the rest of the world. All the books, articles, documentaries, websites and other forms of media they use to promote propaganda against Pakistan and the anti-Pakistan seminars they hold/attend worldwide, they do so while falsely presenting themselves as Pakistanis. Weather it is in India or the West, they appear themselves to be Pakistanis who hate their country and publicly denounce it.
Even Pervez Hoodbhoy's ongoing pro-Indian propaganda is depicted by the Indian media as "India through the eyes of a Pakistani."
The middle class Muhajirs are also not very helpful in this case either and only add more to the problem by further defaming Pakistan. Whenever middle class Muhajirs engage in religious extremism and terrorism abroad, their Pakistani citizenship creates all sorts of false assumptions about Pakistan.
Since most people from outside of Pakistan are unaware of the fact that Muhajirs are mostly distinct from the rest of the Pakistani population, they are mistaken for Pakistanis due to their Pakistani citizenship. And since these middle class Muhajirs have Pakistani passports, any kind of terrorist or similar act they carry out gives foreigners the impression that Pakistanis are extremists.
They are unaware that Pakistan's population is generally more peaceful and tolerant compared to the Muhajir middle class.
And whenever a middle class Muhajir does do something crazy abroad, an upper class Muhajir fifth columnist runs do his/her desk to write another propaganda thesis on how extremist "Pakistanis" are.
Even abroad amongst "South Asian" community organizations consisting of mostly Indian, Bangladeshi and Muhajir expatriates, it's the Muhajir expatriates who depict themselves as "Pakistanis" and make themselves appear as representatives of Pakistan.
Amongst these "South Asian" community organizations, there are many newspapers and similar media outlets which publish Indian propaganda against Pakistan and try to appear as if they represent the collective "South Asian" point of view. Such media outlets are endorsed by these expatriate Muhajirs.
Even when terrorist attacks occur in India and elsewhere in the world, the Indians and other enemies of Pakistan turn to the Muhajir fifth column once again to aid them in their propaganda against the Pakistani military and the ISI.
And once again these Muhajirs jump to blame the Pakistani state while presenting themselves as Pakistanis to help anti-Pakistan lobbies worldwide in convincing people that even Pakistanis support the idea that Pakistan is behind these terrorist attacks.
This is the problem that simply ignoring these frustrated upper class Muhajirs poses.
This is also why I feel all those outspoken against Pakistan's fifth column need to take into account the backgrounds of the leading fifth columnists and the need to re-interpret their message.
Another pathetic joke in this whole matter are the laughable Sindhis. Sindhis have a history of blaming all their problems on the Punjabis and their Muhajir puppets. Ironically though, Sindhis mimic the Muhajirs in almost everything they say and do.
If one comes across a typical middle class Sindhi from an urban part of Sindh such as Karachi or Hyderabad, he behaves just like a middle class Muhajir, poised with religious extremism and bigotry.
An upper class Sindhi also from an urban part of Sindh often imitates upper class Muhajirs on the other hand.
All while condemning the Muhajirs for all their injustice against them, they mimic the Muhajirs in their love for India and the West. Even when these supposed "Sindhi nationalists" claim they want independence or at least greater autonomy for Sindh, they mimic the Muhajirs in condemning the so-called "partition."
The huge contradiction is if Sindhis think their province is suffering from being a part of a country of 170 to 180 million people, what beneficiaries do they see in becoming part of a country of one billion people??
The Sindhis are an extremely confused people misguided by their feudal landlords and corrupt leaders in the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) as well as their "saints."
They constantly imitate people around them much like parrots who repeat only what they hear. The Sindhi people overall lack any critical or independent thinking.
This is even acknowledged by many educated Sindhis themselves who criticize the Sindhi people and leaders for touting Sindh to be the center of civilization and everyone else's achievements to be simply stolen from Sindhi knowledge and enlightenment.
The Muhajir upper class's condemnation of the army and ISI's inhumane actions in Bangladesh and Balochistan has sent these so-called "Sindhi nationalists" wild with joy. For this they have been trying even harder to fit in politically with the Muhajir upper class.
The Sindhis are naive to think the Muhajir upper class will condemn the Punjabi dominated bureaucracy's reckless and selfish policies in Sindh just because they condemned it in Bangladesh and Balochistan.
Once again the Muhajirs despise the Pakistani military and the ISI for dis-empowering them and replacing them as the feudal lords of Pakistan, not because they stand for human rights or anything of that sort.
Also partially because the Muhajir upper class benefited from Sindh's exploitation and still do as opposed Bangladesh and Balochistan. In Karachi the upper class Muhajirs were given plenty of property as "compensation" for leaving behind their properties and belongings in India. In rural Sindh many Muhajir Nawabs gained land at the expense of Sindhi peasants.
Many of these Nawabs also get free monthly payments from the government at the expense of the Pakistani taxpayers.
This is why the Muhajir upper class will not condemn the exploitation of Sindh and it's local population the way they condemn the government and military's conduct in Bangladesh during early 1970s and presently in Balochistan.
And even if the Muhajir upper class does so, they will still not be as vocal about it as they are in regards to Bangladesh and Balochistan.
I have Pakistani friends of all major ethnicities. Weather they are Punjabis, Pakhtuns, Baloch, Kashmiris and more independent minded Sindhis. And despite their political differences amongst one another regarding ethnicity and provincial equality, they all seem to share a distaste for the Muhajir upper class and their hypocrisy.
They all seem to share the same sentiments that if the Muhajirs really love India, they should move back there and leave Pakistan for good. Before I could not find myself in anymore agreement with them. But now I find myself in disagreement with this notion. The problem is that if the Muhajirs are moved back to India or wherever they came from, it will not mend the damage they have inflicted on Pakistan.
This is why I believe they should suffer the consequences of all problems they created which is what they complain about so much today more than anyone else in Pakistan. Except of course they choose to blame it on the Pakistani people collectively instead of taking the shame upon themselves.
If the Muhajirs are given the choice to return to India by the Indian government and people, it should not be done without imposing a huge departure taxation on them. The taxation should then be spent on repairing all the damages they have caused.
I seriously doubt they will choose to simply leave for India. They have far too many assets in Pakistan. Whether in property or finance or political power, they have plenty of it and they don't to want to give it all up. They want more and detest the military for holding most of the financial and political power, which is why they claim Pakistan to have been a 'part' of India and call for the so-called "partition" to be reversed.
They want to hold on to all their assets and properties in Pakistan while being able to travel freely over to India and back without any restrictions.
As for the middle class Muhajirs, I doubt their desire to depart even more so. For them Pakistan is a safe heaven where they can practice their extreme brand of Islam and torment non-Muslims as well as one another along Shia-Sunni differences.
This will not be possible in India where they would be a minority and where Brahmans get to do most of the tormenting against Sikhs, Christians, Muslims, Dalits and others.
It is sad but clear the Muhajir upper class have no positive intentions towards Pakistan or any country. Like the Brahmans of India, wealth and power are the only things they seem to care about.
Their influence in Pakistan has been overall negative. For decades they remained "patriotic" towards Pakistan and loyal to their extreme brand of Islam until the Punjabization of the military and civilian bureaucracy turned them into pseudo-secularists and Indophiles.
People who have condemned the pro-Indian, pro-Western Muhajir fifth column have often termed it the liberal lynch mob. I call it the Muhajir lynch mob.
The conditions of the country saw deterioration under their rule and what we see much of today in Sindh is a result of that.
This is not to suggest military is a much better of a ruling entity than the Muhajir upper class. The military remains an equal domestic threat to Pakistan as does the Muhajir upper class.
Today the military acts like a cancer, slowly destroying Pakistan from within. With their exploitation of Pakistan and their brutal tactics in dealing with political opposition has only fueled more ethnic tensions and separatism in the country.
Already under General Zia Ul-Haq it destroyed the country's possibly last hopes of progress by lifting the birth control programs, sending Pakistan's population into a skyrocketing growth rate and adding towards a hundred million more people in less than three decades.
Islamitization of the Pakistani population and the empowering of religious fundamentalists in Pakistan is another curse right from the military.
Even within the military there is suspicion in between the ranks with rumors of generals fearing their commanders and intelligence outfits are plotting against them. The intelligence and commanders have the same fears of the generals plotting to dismiss them. It's as if the cancer has turned so deadly that it is infecting itself inside out.
Many educated upper class Punjabis also see the military for what it has become. With no regards to the laws, including constitutional laws and their other crimes against the country, they have played an enormous role in slowing down progress.
General Kayani might be trying to reverse all of that, but the damage is so severe that his efforts may take decades before there is improvement.
But regardless of all that, there's a difference between living under military rule and Muhajir rule, which is why I prefer the military to the Muhajir upper class. Under Muhajir rule everything degenerates and becomes an utter mess.
While the military builds towns, cities, businesses, cantonments for it's own selfish ambitions, it gives some benefits to the population. The military defense housing areas in Karachi for example provide decent roads and infrastructure compared to the urban Muhajir areas with leaking sewers, muddy roads etc.
Even the building of this infrastructure and private businesses provides jobs and opportunities to the ordinary people.
The Muhajir upper class seems to be nowhere as close as competitive. And as I wrote the military acts like a cancer, destroying the country from within but still at a slow pace, which still gives us time to save it before it goes into complete chaos.
Muhajir rule gives us no such opportunity or collateral beneficiary that military rule does and has been almost entirely negative on Pakistani society.
Conclusion:
The purpose of this post is not to depict all Muhajirs as bad, weather in the middle class, upper class or any other class. There are many educated Muhajirs who are sincere to their country and have done much for Pakistan.
Nor is the aim of this post to depict Muhajirs as one ethnic group. As already mentioned more than once before, the Muhajirs consist of multiple ethnicities that immigrated to Pakistan from other parts of the subcontinent during independence.
They include many Kashmiris as well who fled Indian controlled Kashmir, yet their attitude is shockingly the same as most other upper class Muhajirs. These "Kashmiri Muhajirs" have also taken it upon themselves to speak on behalf of the entire Kashmiri population or try to represent them.
They project their opinions as much when their opinions are the exact opposite of most Kashmiris.
Then there are also many Pakistanis from the upper class whom are only partially Muhajir (such as myself), yet their Muhajir side speaks louder than their Pakistani side. This in most usual cases is due to being inspired by their Muhajir parents/guardians, friends, peers and/or relatives.
There are many of such people amongst Pakistan's fifth column. Also the belief that Pakistan would be free of it's current problems had it not been for the upper class Muhajirs and their savage-like, ultra-religious medieval middle class is untrue.
The Muhajir upper class was exploiting Pakistan from day one. They perhaps had their dirty plans for the country in the works from even before independence. Though I have yet to confirm it's truth, I've heard claims that Liaquat Ali Khan planned on reserving property in Karachi strictly only for Muhajirs as "compensation" for leaving behind their land properties and other belongings upon leaving their home territories for Pakistan.
Jinnah rejected such a proposal terming it as discrimination against the local Sindhis.
If what I heard is true, it proves the upper class Muhajirs were ready to exploit Pakistan and it's people from day one. But as I mentioned above, it wouldn't mean Pakistan would be free of it's current problems even without the Muhajirs.
Despite their corruption and exploitation of Pakistan, the country was still relatively advanced and enjoyed a good environment, a safe society and a simplistic way of life.
All this was due to the fact that Pakistan had a sustainable population until around the 1970s.
Corruption in Pakistan weather on the part of the Muhajirs or the Punjabi dominated military would have had a much less harm on the country had the population stayed at a sustainable number. But at the same time the Muhajir upper class does nothing to help the situation. They have only made things worse for Pakistan from day one. Corruption combined with overpopulation has had devastating effects on the country.
Pakistan would no doubt be a much better off country had it not been for the Muhajir upper class, but not entirely free of it's problems for the reasons I explained.
Tarek Fatah, while not a resident of Pakistan is still paraded as a Pakistani despite his recent affirming the fact that he is Indian born and that his family migrated from East Punjab in 1947.
Him residing outside Pakistan and abandoning his Pakistani citizenship makes him slightly different from other Muhajir fifth columnists, though he clearly is one of them.
Irfan Husain is also a complicated personality to understand. At some times his writings make a lot of sense, at other times they display the same message as the rest of the Muhajir fifth column.
Nevertheless, his sentiments have put him in the same category as the rest of the leading Muhajir fifth columnists.
And even amongst the Muhajir middle class there exist many peaceful, tolerant and like minded people who are not extremist in any way. In fact they are strongly patriotic towards Pakistan, the country they were born and raised in and which they call their home.
It's the corrupt pro-Indian/Western Muhajirs who give all other Muhajirs a bad name and only help isolate them from Pakistani society.
The purpose of this post is to rather point out that it is no coincidence that all the anti-Pakistan crooks in the media and even amongst the expatriates happen to have Indian roots, even if partially.
All Muhajirs might not be traitors to Pakistan, but almost all traitors to Pakistan are Muhajirs.
So the next time you see anti-Pakistan propaganda coming out of the Pakistani media weather in Pakistan or amongst the expatriate community or some over-excitement about India and Bangladesh's imaginary advancements and superiority over Pakistan or that all South Asians are "the same," do a family background check on the individual(s) behind such propaganda and I'll guarantee at least one side of their family history will take you to Delhi, Gujarat, Hyderabad Deccan, Calcutta, East Punjab or some other part of the subcontinent.
Post update: Here is a recent quote from one of my Sindhi relatives on his attendance to Ayesha Jalal's lectures:
Most politically aware Pakistanis know by now that most of our country's media is acting as a traitor and is dominated by Pakistan's best known fifth columnists that I pointed out in my other posts.
But what most people don't mention when discussing the fifth column of Pakistan and their dirty agenda is the ethnic backgrounds of both the well known and not so well known fifth columnists.
This problem of anti-Pakistan propaganda and promotion of self-hatred towards Pakistan is not just persistent in the treacherous Pakistani media, but also in regular life where one comes across a certain group of people who complain about everything in Pakistan like no other and always compare it to the "better" aspects of India.
They make the most absurd comparisons between the two countries from Air India's in-flight services to that of Pakistan International Airlines' (PIA). From animal conservation laws in both countries to religious extremism.
Most of these comparisons are again drawn out of nowhere and again whether in the media or in regular life conversations, these particular people never miss a chance to badmouth Pakistan and compare it to India by pulling out half-truths.
Only recently did my search to identify these people lead me to a certain group of corrupt elites in the upper class and some in the upper middle class.
More recently did my search narrow down even further to establish a pattern that these groups and individuals consist entirely of Muhajirs.
As my other post and this article's origins section explains, the Muhajirs are not a single ethnic group as commonly perceived.
They come from all over India including Gujarat, New Delhi, Hyderabad Deccan, Utter Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and other parts of the subcontinent. This is one main commonality and also they mainly speak Urdu as a language of intercommunication. But their strongest commonality outside language, religion and foreign ancestry is their politics, mentality and social structure in Pakistani society.
The Muhajir upper class is what comes into focus when the questions of who are Pakistan's treacherous fifth columnists and what motivates them arise.
Most of Pakistan's Muhajir upper class are the biggest critics of Pakistani society and are the ones we see in the fifth column media as well as regular life. They complain about Pakistan like no other. Even Sindhi and Baloch nationalists do not compare to these upper class Muhajirs when complaining everything about and inside Pakistan.
What's most ironic in the majority of their complaints and criticisms of Pakistan is that they are actually describing their own Muhajir middle class as well as their own faults which they also blame on Pakistan.
I and many others like myself can provide countless examples of such, but they obviously all cannot be covered in the post so I'll mention only a few and the most significant ones.
I was once watching independence day celebrations on TV back in the summer of 2005 which were taking place at the Quaid-i-Azam's Mazar in Karachi.
It was there that an upper class Muhajir spoke up in Urdu that we have as a country have a lot to feel bad about because during independence we have almost entirely ethnically cleansed religious minorities whereas in India a Sikh has become a prime minister.
What he was referring to was the atrocities committed by the Muhajirs against non-Muslims upon their arrival into Pakistan, particularly Karachi and the rest of Sindh.
But instead of pointing out this as the dirty work of the Muhajirs, he like many upper class Muhajirs decided to blame it on the Pakistani people.
Another case was when a Muhajir friend of one of my parents stayed at our house when visiting North America.
When helping her with her baggage during her departure from our house, I noticed that she had a PIA tag on her bag. I asked her how she enjoyed her flight on PIA (PIA has great in-flight service, especially on North American routes), she immediately went into a long lecture on how she hated it and how the religious Pakistanis blocked the aisles during prayers and flooded the bathrooms just to clean themselves before the prayers.
She went on and on about how she was ashamed of Pakistan and being born in Karachi and that she was planning on giving up her Pakistani citizenship.
There are two things in this example that upper class Muhajirs normally complain about, but again label them as Pakistani faults instead of Muhajir faults.
One is the religious extremists on the flight who made it unpleasant. Most Pakistanis and others familiar with Pakistan know for a fact that middle class and even some upper class Muhajirs are the most religiously extreme people in the country. They take religion to such an extreme even more so than the Arabs do.
The Muhajir upper class in the media and even in regular life frequently complain on how extreme their middle class is. But while describing their middle class and their extremism, the Muhajir upper class calls them "Pakistanis" instead of specifically calling them Muhajirs.
Even the Muhajir fifth columnists who spread anti-Pakistan propaganda in the media constantly describe these radical middle class Muhajirs and their barbaric interpretation of Islam.
They complain on how religious "Pakistanis" are and blame Zia Ul-Haq and the Pakistani military for radicalizing these "Pakistanis."
But never do these upper class Muhajirs dare give a brief insight or even dare mention the ethnic backgrounds of these ultra-radical "Pakistanis."
While it's true that there are religious extremists in Pakistan's indigenous ethnic groups, particularly middle and lower class Punjabis, Pakhtuns and Kashmiris, it still does not compare much to the kind of religious extremism of the Muhajir middle and lower classes.
The other point in that case of my parent's frustrated Muhajir friend I wanted to touch upon was her shame in being born in Karachi.
The Muhajirs regularly put down and complain about Karachi and use it as an example to highlight the failures of Pakistan. None of these upper class Muhajirs stop to think and ask themselves who governed the city since independence till present day? Muhajirs. These are amongst the countless cases of upper class Muhajirs blaming their faults on the Pakistani people and society.
Whenever criticizing Pakistan and "Pakistanis," they are actually describing their own neglect on the city they control and their fellow backward lower and middle class Muhajirs.
These are the very same upper class Muhajirs who have infested Pakistan's media and try to pin their faults onto the people of Pakistan.
Pakistan's most active and best known fifth columnists Pervez Hoodbhoy, Ahmed Rashid, Asma Jahangir, Ayesha Jalal, Irfan Husain, Najam Sethi, Tarek Fatah and Dr Farrukh Saleem are all Muhajirs even if some of them might be partially Pakistani. These people only write columns and make public speeches and commentaries that fit two main categories:
Blaming and accusing Pakistan for all global unrest and trying to always prove India is a "better" country than Pakistan.
Whenever they write about India's imaginary superiority, they do so from a rich person's perspective.
They constantly ravage on and on about India's billionaires and stay silent to the fact that India is the poorest country in the world. And I'm not trying to be negative towards India or Indian people, but simply stating a fact. Most of the Indian population live in some of the worst conditions a human being could ever live in. Northern India alone has more poor people than the entire continent of Africa!
Add to that it has half the entire world's hungry population and largest population of people carrying aids and HIV. Is this the kind of country we want to make Pakistan?
But all of this is deliberately ignored by the Muhajir upper class. They only talk about the success of the rich in India and stay silent on the country being at the bottom of the world in almost every other field. When claiming that Muslims in India are "more successful," they are referring to those two or three rich, successful Muslims in industries like Bollywood.
They are not referring to those millions of Indian Muslims living in poverty and suffering from discrimination. Those millions of poor and middle class Muslims in India don't even exist for all our Muhajir upper class cares.
This is why it's important to re-interpret the message that the Muhajir upper class is trying to convey and the message is quite clear when re-interpreted. That they (the Muhajir upper class) would live in wealth and success despite the rest of the country lying in ruins and it's people living in absolute poverty.
If one were to take the Muhajir claim that India is a "better country" than Pakistan literally, it would not make sense at all. The statistics of the two countries shows quite the opposite.
But when looking at the rich elites of India that the Muhajirs are obsessed about, their situation is the opposite to the rest of the country's population. The power they hold over Indian society, both with the help of the caste system and their financial power, they rule over it like kings and queens.
This is the kind of financial and political power many in the Muhajir upper class desire for. Such ambitions are nothing short of dreams. Such influence was available to them in Pakistan before the Punjabi dominated military's rise to ultimate power.
This is the reason behind their constant condemnation of Pakistan's military which does not share it's powers with others.
This again is a requirement of having to re-interpret the Muhajir upper class's claim that India is a "more free and democratic country."
What they are trying to imply in this case is that they could enjoy the taste of full political and financial power without always having the annoying military coming in the way.
In India the balance of power between the military and civilian elites is shared. The military in India enjoys the same privileges as the Pakistani military does with huge financial sums going into their budget as well as enjoying free defense housing in India's main cities.
The main difference between the Indian military and their Pakistani counterparts is that they have never ousted an Indian civilian government and the reason is that various Indian governments have had the same agenda as the military such as BJP warmongers ready to occupy the whole of Kashmir and go to war with China over land disputes.
In Pakistan the politicians and the military have not exactly been on the same agenda. The politicians would prefer to see the taxpayer's money go into their own pockets instead of the military's budget, not because they are committed to peace in the region or anything of that sort.
The fact that the Indian military has never had the need to oust a civilian government in India is a cause of joy for the Muhajir upper class who feel their dreams have been shattered by Pakistan's armed forces.
This is why the Muhajir controlled media of Pakistan touts India to be a "more democratic" country than Pakistan.
Again, what they are trying to imply is that they would benefit from wealth and power had Pakistan been more like India.
The Muhajir upper class has despised Pakistan's military ever since it reduced their influence over Pakistani society under General Zia Ul-Haq.
This fifth columnist anti-Pakistan propaganda media is their only 'weapon' against the military and the people of Pakistan.
While discussing Pakistan's treacherous Muhajir controlled media, I recently learned something interesting from a friend of one of my parents, whom I was recently employed with, about the Pakistani Muhajir controlled media.
He told me that during his youth which was the 1960s and 1970s, the very same Muhajir controlled media used to preach hatred against "Hindus" and non-Muslims.
Another irony in a whole series of ironies concerning the corrupt hypocrite Muhajir upper class.
Perhaps because in the first few decades of independence, their Brahman relatives in India refused to share their power with them that they decided to spur hatred against them. Then slowly when the Brahman upper caste decided to incorporate a few Muslim proxies into their house of wealth, the Muhajir upper class decided India and the Brahmans aren't so bad for Muslims after all, especially for rich Muslims like themselves.
And when the Punjabi dominated military decides to no longer share it's power with them, what better time for the Muhajir upper class to change their propaganda war from being against non-Muslim "infidels" to the Pakistani state that shattered their dreams of living complete in wealth and feudalism.
Perhaps it is no coincidence during 1980s that saw the replacement of Muhajir hegemony in Pakistani society to that of Punjabis is also the decade that Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy is said to have turned into the country's leading fifth columnist upon his return from America where he received his university education.
Prior to that it is claimed that he would actually defend Pakistan in his political commentaries and publications, though I don't know how true that is.
Perhaps it is also no coincidence that the MQM came into existence as an organization serving Muhajir interests before eventually renaming itself the Mutahidda Qaumi Movement.
While mentioning the MQM, it is worthy to note that most of the Westernized Muhajir upper class does not associate itself with this organization. Most upper class Muhajirs don't stand for a common sense of "Muhajirhood" but rather their own individual ethnicities and cultures.
The so-called "partition of India and Pakistan" is another lie invented by the upper caste Brahmans of India and echoed by Pakistan's Muhajir upper class.
Not surprisingly, it is the Muhajir upper class and upper middle class who today are the biggest champions in Pakistan of the false claim that Indians and Pakistanis are "the same people."
When Muhajirs claim Pakistanis and Indians being "the same," they are actually referring to themselves.
Many of them in public life and the media discuss relentlessly on their trips to India and how they could never differentiate between the people living there and themselves.
This is the level of ignorance that they live in. They must think the other ethnic groups of Pakistan and their languages and cultures simply don't exist. All those millions of Balochis, Pakhtuns, Sindhis, Kashmiris and others don't exist for them, much like all those millions of poor Muslims living in the slums of Mumbai and New Delhi don't exist to them either.
These upper class Muhajirs also complain about how so many Western tourists visit India, but not Pakistan and try to play on this fact to depict India as a "better country."
The reason is because the Muhajirs, like the Brahman upper caste of India live in worship of white people, particularly Westerners.
In India Westerns feel very welcomed despite their description of the horrible conditions that India is in. Even a Dutch diplomat once wrote how New Delhi was the worst capital he'd ever served in. Regardless, despite the terrible conditions and poor infrastructure compared to cities like Lahore, Islamabad or Sialkot, Westerners feel more secure and welcomed in India than they do in Pakistan where they are regarded with suspicion.
Upper class pro-Western/Indian Muhajirs also make no notice of the many Chinese visitors that come to Pakistan. This is because the Chinese are not regarded with the same superiority by them as Westerners are.
I for one could not care any less if foreigners visit my country or not. It is not as important as having a developed and sustainable country, which sadly neither India or Pakistan are.
Sure it would be nice to have foreign guests who would like to learn about our country and culture(s), but is it really that important or is it the Muhajir upper class living in their typical Western worship again?
Today even the Bangladeshis have become a favorite for Pakistan's Muhajir upper class and their media.
Perhaps this is because the Muhajirs in Bangladesh have been forgiven for their crimes in aiding the Pakistani military in their mass murder of Bengali civilians and have also been accepted into Bangladeshi society.
So today another fault of the Muhajirs which was inciting the 1971 war by refusing Bengali or any other language equal statues to Urdu, they choose to shift the entire blame onto the military of Pakistan and also want to send the Pakistani people into a guilt trip for the 1971 war.
Also the Muhajir propaganda machine seems to today be hell bent on depicting Bangladesh and it's people as "better" and more sophisticated compared to Pakistan and it's people.
This false belief persists in many arrogant and fascist Bangladeshis and is now today aided by the Muhajir controlled media.
While Bangladesh is depicted by the Muhajirs as a "better country," the Muhajirs have allowed the Sindh province to become a dumping ground for millions of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
How much more self-contradictory can one get? On the one side claiming Bangladeshis are "smarter" and "better" and on the other side turning Pakistan, particularly Sindh into a dumping ground for Bangladeshi and Afghan immigrants.
It also takes us back to my earlier claim that wealth and power is what the Muhajir upper class is all about.
Because the Bangladeshi people have decided to give their relatives influential roles in Bangladeshi society, the upper class Muhajirs have decided that Bangladesh is a "better country" than Pakistan because it's people will share their wealth and power with them; whereas in Pakistan the main political and economic powers are mainly restricted to the Punjabi dominated military.
The growth of the Indian economy suddenly seems to fill the Muhajir upper class with false pride. When one tries to point out to an average upper class Muhajir the fact that India's poverty exceeds that of Africa's entire poverty or even puts forward statistical facts that prove India is the opposite of what they try to depict it as, the three usual replies one gets from the upper class Muhajir is:
"But they have one of the fastest growing economies" or "I didn't know that" when answering to the fact that India has so many poor people. The third typical answer is that they will get up and walk away from the conversation, knowing they cannot deny the facts.
I've experienced the first two most of the time, one of my Pakhtun friends has experienced the third.
It again calls for an interpretation of what the upper class Muhajirs are trying to state. And that is that they would be the beneficiaries like their Brahman relatives regardless of how poor and undeveloped the country is.
Today much of the Muhajir upper class has become nothing more than an outpost of the Indian government in Pakistan. They have become the mouthpiece of the Indian government in Pakistan and our Muhajir fifth column led by Pervez Hoodbhoy aid the Indian propaganda machine against Pakistan.
Many Indian news agencies are known for publishing false, but isolated reports about what happens in Pakistan and what Pakistan does. Sometimes it is even the opposite of what actually happens.
Weather it is deliberately misquoting Western politicians and military leaders on Pakistan, or any quote or case that seems to work in favor of India but against Pakistan, it's noticeable that only Indian news agencies report these. Such reports only weaken the credibility of these ridiculous Indian news agencies.
One great example was a photograph from an Israeli raid in the Palestinian territories that was taken by an Indian news outlet and depicted as the 2009 Lahore police academy attack.
It was an epic failure as the Israeli vehicle in the picture had Hebrew writing on it when the Indian media was trying to depict it as a Pakistani Police vehicle.
When Pakistan was close to bankruptcy a few years ago, our leaders went to China to appeal for economic assistance. The Chinese government responded that it could not guarantee it's help since China was facing a severe economic crisis itself.
This was again twisted around by the Indian media and misquoted that China simply rejected Pakistan's appeal. Such lies and propaganda are published by the Indian media on an almost daily basis. Such fictitious material again comes out of only the Indian propaganda media and it's Muhajir assistants in Pakistan.
Another great example was when Pakistan cracked down against Uighur insurgents wanted by the Chinese government which was later condemned by the World Uighur Congress for doing so. It was only the Indian media that drew out the false report that China had asked Pakistan to "stop 'supporting' Uighur terrorists."
This claim was repeated by no other than Pakistan's second most senior fifth columnist Ahmed Rashid when he wrote an article alleging that Pakistan "has no friends in the region."
In our cries against America for violating our sovereignty, we have never stopped even once to protest against the Brahman upper caste of India and their Muhajir relatives for the same violations. The Muhajir upper class have literally turned major portions of our country into Indian colonies.
Never did we Pakistanis even once publicly ask ourselves why we freely gave away our sovereignty to these pro-Indian Muhajirs who behave nothing more than an outpost of the Indian government in Pakistan.
This should pose as an important question to many in the Punjabi elite class, especially the military and civil bureaucracy who have used these Muhajirs for generations as political puppets to control the other ethnic groups of Pakistan opposed to Punjabi hegemony.
While the fifth column makes treacherous claims against Pakistan in their articles, TV seminars, lectures and other publications, they do it anywhere they please weather in India, the West or in the very heart of Pakistan.
There are also Sindhi and Baloch nationalists who spur similar propaganda against Pakistan, but for the wrong reasons. I had written before against Sindhis and Balochis jumping on the Muhajir bandwagon in always blaming the Pakistani military and ISI for everything wrong that happens to them.
While the Baloch and the Sindhi nationalists are right to oppose the Pakistani military's brutal tactics and exploitation of their lands and people, they are wrong to turn to the Muhajir upper class.
Even before and after the military's rise to power in Pakistan before reducing Muhajir control over the country, the military was still exploiting the Sindhi and Baloch populations.
Also what Sindhi and Baloch nationalists seem to have forgotten is these upper class Muhajirs are against the Punjabi dominated military for two reasons.
One is they wish to be the feudal lords of Pakistan instead of the Punjabi elite class, including the military.
Secondly, the blame that the Muhajir upper class is trying to shift onto the military such as the atrocities in 1971 is part of their tactic of always blaming their faults onto Pakistanis. It does not matter if it is the Punjabi military or some other.
The Muhajir upper class had the responsibility of investing in education for their middle and lowers classes and investing in Karachi's infrastructure since they were in control of the city, but they did not. Today they are stuck with a terribly unclean, undeveloped city and a middle/lower class of Muhajirs, most of whom are semi-literate religious fanatics.
But as usual, they choose to blame the insanity of their fanatical middle and lower classes onto the people of Pakistan by calling these middle/lower class Muhajirs "Pakistanis."
Karachi, the city they have ruled since independence that could have turned into a successful port city like Dubai, New York or Istanbul. Instead the Muhajirs lay it to waste and today it's ruined state is used by the Muhajir upper class to try and defame Pakistan.
Instead of investing their money into education, infrastructure, health care and other areas of development, they kept much of their wealth to themselves.
This was their very reason for coming to Pakistan. They came to satisfy their own greed.
It's not to suggest that all Muhajirs are like that, but the majority of them in the upper class are.
The claim that they came to Pakistan as a result of persecution seems rather far fetched now since there are many more Muslims who stayed in India than those who left. Their claims of persecution also today seem even more dubious when many upper class Muhajirs live in regret for immigrating to Pakistan and they also seem to be so bent on trying to depict India as some sort of "paradise."
It is also interesting how the Muhajirs use Karachi's pitiful condition to put down Pakistan and it's people.
Many of them ravage on how they visited London or New York or Paris or Kuala Lampur or Istanbul or some other city and how it was much more civilized compared to Karachi. The upper class Muhajirs seem to live in a bubble and that bubble is Karachi.
Never do these treacherous upper class Muhajirs dare compare these cities to Lahore or Islamabad. To them those cities and the successes of Pakistan is simply unthinkable.
I wondered for a long time why Muhajirs are so silent on the achievements of Pakistan while exaggerating or at times even blatantly lying about India's imaginary advantages over Pakistan and soon the answer became more clearer to me.
Most of the technological achievements and best educational facilities in Pakistan are in the Punjab province. Though it might be true that they sometimes use stolen Balochi and Sindhi resources, the fact is the Punjabi elite class, both military and civilian, are behind the most technological achievements in South Asia.
Weather it is in advanced technology or infrastructure, the Punjabi elite class is behind the majority of these. Knowing the grudge the Muhajir upper class has had towards the Punjabi elite class, particularly the military for overpowering them, the Muhajir upper class would never want to openly admit their advancement in any field. This is also because they for the most part are incapable of producing anything sophisticated themselves.
The Muhajir upper class are in fact quite the opposite and Karachi's terrible condition is living proof of that. They are simply a continuation of the Indian population as I keep stating. Ruining and destroying everything in their path. And as already mentioned, they blame this on the Pakistani people.
Today Karachi looks like nothing more than an Indian city. Overpopulated, polluted, lacking in even basic infrastructure, a dumping ground for illegal immigrants. Most Punjabi towns and cities are also not very developed, but much more so when compared to Karachi. Islamabad is a completely developed city and so are parts of Lahore. Sialkot is another city that seems to be on it's way to development.
Many would again argue that it is due to Punjab stealing resources from the other provinces. This is partially true, but I also feel the main reason is the Punjabis were wise not to let the Muhajirs invade their province. They do suffer a bit from East Punjabi Muhajirs, but it still hasn't turned Punjab into a Muhajir stronghold the way Karachi and other parts of Sindh have.
Even defense housing authority in Karachi is more developed than other parts of the city. It is partially because it is located at the edge of the city where there is less population but I also feel it's because it was set up by the Punjabi military.
So in a bid to hide their jealousy over the Punjabis and their advantages, the Muhajir controlled media in Pakistan covers up all sorts of developments in Pakistan weather they are in science, infrastructure, education, health care or any other.
However, any small 'development' in India hits the front pages of the Muhajir controlled media for ages. They continue to be talked about and deliberately exaggerated until the Muhajirs are convinced the Pakistani public will never forget that their Brahman relatives are "more advanced" than the Punjabis and the rest of the Pakistani population.
Weather it is the subway system in New Delhi or some other small development, the Muhajir upper class shines with false pride for ages and exaggerates this development while deliberately ignoring the fact that despite having a subway system, New Delhi is a terribly developed city and national capital in comparison to Islamabad.
The Muhajir upper class have long touted to the Pakistani people that India has a history of ingeniously building it's technology, mainly the time period that covered the Cold War era; whereas Pakistan imported everything.
As everything else the Muhajir upper class touts about India, I find this claim to be equally dubious. Throughout it's history the Indian aviation industry imported civil airliners, mainly from Boeing and Airbus which are both American and European firms.
This is true for just about every airline industry in the world with Boeing and Airbus being the two main suppliers of aircraft, especially in the medium and long haul sector.
So if India was building everything indigenously during the Cold War era, what explains the induction of foreign made Boeings and Airbuses in it's airline industry? Air India was one of the first customers of the Boeing 747 which first came out in the 1960s. Then there's also the case of massive arms imports from the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was India's closest ally and biggest weapons supplier throughout the Cold War. Even India's nuclear weapons program is known to have had Soviet involvement.
Again how exactly does this all fit the Muhajir claim that India was building everything indigenously?
And as already discussed even today when some technology is built in India, it is often exaggerated as "entirely indigenous" by the Indians and the upper class Muhajirs. Whenever an "Indian car" or "Indian helicopter" or "Indian fridge" is made, it haunts the Pakistani media and is exaggerated or at times it being Indian at all is entirely a lie.
I've come to suspect that all these supposed "Indian" cars, fridges, helicopters and other technologies are imported from abroad but assembled in India under license. India has a long history of importing foreign technology and assembling them under license. Them being put together in India somehow gives Brahman Indians and their brotherly upper class Muhajirs the belief that they automatically become "Indian inventions."
Pakistan also has a history of assembling submarines, tanks and planes, but it is well known they are not Pakistani inventions. For example the French designed Augusta submarine has been imported and assembled in Pakistan's shipyards, but never depicted as a "Pakistani submarine" as far as I can remember.
Most of these technologies are also built under license from Pakistan.
Even the JF-17 Thunder designed jointly by China and Pakistan is nothing much to be proud of until both countries can independently build key components of the plane.
But other than that Pakistanis don't claim to be behind the invention of these imported technologies the way Indians and the upper class Muhajirs restlessly lie about imported fridges from Japan or technology imported from elsewhere and simply assembled in India as "indigenously made by India."
There are also joint aircraft production projects by aeronautical firms in India. One particular project is the development of a short haul jet aircraft that seats about a hundred people. The current name for this plane is "Indian Regional Jet." According to sources that I've come across, this plane will be powered by American built engines and will use American avionics.
But I don't expect the Indian media or the Muhajir controlled media in Pakistan to make a note of this. Once this plane enters production, the first reaction from the Muhajir upper class will be barking that India can make planes and that Pakistan can't build anything.
As everything else, they will lie about how "indigenous" this plane is while continuing to cover up every technological advancement of Pakistan, which again the Punjabis are mostly behind.
The video below best explains what I have been discussing all along:
Another very noticeable thing about these hypocritical Muhajirs for a Pakistani living abroad is while they choose to depict India and Bangladesh as shinning paradises, none of them actually bother to go and live in those countries.
All the Muhajirs I meet abroad or those I hear leaving Pakistan out of hatred for our country, they all settle in Western countries and obtain British, Canadian, American and other Western citizenships.
Even with their foreign passports, none of them actually bother to apply for an Indian visa and move into a mud shack or apartment building in the slums of Bombay, Dhaka or New Delhi.
I have yet to meet or at least hear/read of a single Muhajir who would move to what they would call "paradise on Earth."
Instead as I just mentioned, they choose to live in the West or even more hypocritically, they settle in the developed cities of Punjab. Most of Pakistan's leading fifth columnists are ironically settled in Punjab of all places on Earth. Pervez Hoodbhoy lives in Islamabad. So does Asma Jahangir and Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Najam Sethi and Ahmed Rashid reside in Lahore. Ayesha Jalal lives in the USA the last time I checked. Irfan Husain has spent a great deal of his life in Punjab and in Europe where he is now permanently settled in.
Instead of residing in the filth infested slums of India or Bangladesh or even Karachi which they are mostly responsible for ruining, they hypocritically prefer to comfort themselves with all the advanced infrastructure built by the Punjabis.
The list of ironies only grows bigger.
This to me only proves their envy of Punjabis and the rest of the Pakistani population of their advancement over themselves.
This advancement is what creates such insecurity amongst the upper class Muhajirs that they deliberately hide/ignore all the advancements of Pakistan but exaggerate all the positive but insignificant things about Indians and Bangladeshis.
A new trend about the upper class Muhajirs that my attention has recently been drawn towards is their objection to Pakistan's alliance with China.
I had noticed for at least a few years that the Indian Brahmans are actually trying to reach out towards China and speak highly of that country, though I don't see a mutual interest coming from the Chinese side.
Some of the Indian Brahmans have actually gone as far as to blame Pakistan as the obstacle that comes between them and China.
The Indian ruling class must be naive to think their border disputes that have infuriated Beijing have anything in the slightest to do with Pakistan.
Even the 1962 war between India and China had no involvement from the Pakistani side as far as anyone can prove. In fact India's harboring of the Dali Lama and vocal support for Tibet's secession has only further angered China and strengthened ties with Pakistan and gained a common Chinese stand on the Kashmir issue.
Pakistan's strategic position, it's role in fighting militancy, including Uighur separatist militancy, and decades of common interests and mutual trust have made it a close and reliable ally for China.
The alliance has left India in a cold spot. This has upset the Brahmans who detest the decreasing ties with China while Pakistan's relations with China have only grown stronger.
This has also terribly dismayed the Muhajir upper class in Pakistan who cannot stand to see their relatives across the border loose out in all of this.
Over the past few months I've seen a sudden surge of columns coming out of the Muhajirs in the Pakistani media trying to cast doubt on Pakistan's alliance with China, claiming China only cares about it's interest and will abandon Pakistan if it no longer has anything beneficial to gain from Pakistan.
Irfan Husain has claimed that had it not been for a common enmity with India, China would have no interest in Pakistan. He and all the upper class Muhajirs must think all the decades of trade, investments and exchange of aid during crucial times and Pakistan's refusal to be used as a base for Uighur militancy and other fields of partnership have anything at all to do with India.
Ahmed Rashid as mentioned repeats the Indian media's claim that Pakistan has been "supporting" Uighur separatism though no other media claimed such nonsense.
Other Muhajir columnists have touted that Pakistan 'needs' India and must co-operate with India. Of course they must be deaf like the Indian government to constantly ignore Pakistan's repeated calls for co-operation and negotiations.
What these pro-Indian upper class Muhajirs also don't realize is that there's a difference between simple common interests and trust. Pakistan and China not only share common interests, but have developed trust for one another after at least fifty years of friendship. Why else do they think all those cultural events held by Chinese and Pakistani people if not to celebrate brotherly ties between the two countries?
China and Pakistan's friendship may have started out from having a common enemy, but today the two countries have many common interests and goals which have nothing to do with having India as a common enemy.
The Muhajirs are clearly upset to see their host country in conflict with their beloved home country. They are also frustrated that China has shown no interest in mutually returning the friendship offered by their Brahman relatives and has only further strengthened it's alliance with Pakistan.
They are upset about their beloved India being left out of the Chinese-Pakistani club.
These are the reasons behind those idiotic columns the Muhajir media has recently been promoting to the Pakistani population.
The Muhajir upper class in Pakistan are clearly a frustrated and power hungry people who have not changed from their caste system ways even after their forefathers' conversion to Islam from caste based Brahmanism.
They are not taken seriously anywhere in Pakistan. For at least thirty years they have been publishing anti-Pakistan propaganda which has gone ignored by much of the Pakistani population.
While they have a large audience amongst the classes of their own kind (remember middle and lower class Muhajirs are mostly different), they are mostly ignored by the rest of the population. They and their sentiments are nothing more than a pathetic joke.
But the problem occurs when they try to depict themselves as Pakistanis in the eyes of the rest of the world. All the books, articles, documentaries, websites and other forms of media they use to promote propaganda against Pakistan and the anti-Pakistan seminars they hold/attend worldwide, they do so while falsely presenting themselves as Pakistanis. Weather it is in India or the West, they appear themselves to be Pakistanis who hate their country and publicly denounce it.
Even Pervez Hoodbhoy's ongoing pro-Indian propaganda is depicted by the Indian media as "India through the eyes of a Pakistani."
The middle class Muhajirs are also not very helpful in this case either and only add more to the problem by further defaming Pakistan. Whenever middle class Muhajirs engage in religious extremism and terrorism abroad, their Pakistani citizenship creates all sorts of false assumptions about Pakistan.
Since most people from outside of Pakistan are unaware of the fact that Muhajirs are mostly distinct from the rest of the Pakistani population, they are mistaken for Pakistanis due to their Pakistani citizenship. And since these middle class Muhajirs have Pakistani passports, any kind of terrorist or similar act they carry out gives foreigners the impression that Pakistanis are extremists.
They are unaware that Pakistan's population is generally more peaceful and tolerant compared to the Muhajir middle class.
And whenever a middle class Muhajir does do something crazy abroad, an upper class Muhajir fifth columnist runs do his/her desk to write another propaganda thesis on how extremist "Pakistanis" are.
Even abroad amongst "South Asian" community organizations consisting of mostly Indian, Bangladeshi and Muhajir expatriates, it's the Muhajir expatriates who depict themselves as "Pakistanis" and make themselves appear as representatives of Pakistan.
Amongst these "South Asian" community organizations, there are many newspapers and similar media outlets which publish Indian propaganda against Pakistan and try to appear as if they represent the collective "South Asian" point of view. Such media outlets are endorsed by these expatriate Muhajirs.
Even when terrorist attacks occur in India and elsewhere in the world, the Indians and other enemies of Pakistan turn to the Muhajir fifth column once again to aid them in their propaganda against the Pakistani military and the ISI.
And once again these Muhajirs jump to blame the Pakistani state while presenting themselves as Pakistanis to help anti-Pakistan lobbies worldwide in convincing people that even Pakistanis support the idea that Pakistan is behind these terrorist attacks.
This is the problem that simply ignoring these frustrated upper class Muhajirs poses.
This is also why I feel all those outspoken against Pakistan's fifth column need to take into account the backgrounds of the leading fifth columnists and the need to re-interpret their message.
Another pathetic joke in this whole matter are the laughable Sindhis. Sindhis have a history of blaming all their problems on the Punjabis and their Muhajir puppets. Ironically though, Sindhis mimic the Muhajirs in almost everything they say and do.
If one comes across a typical middle class Sindhi from an urban part of Sindh such as Karachi or Hyderabad, he behaves just like a middle class Muhajir, poised with religious extremism and bigotry.
An upper class Sindhi also from an urban part of Sindh often imitates upper class Muhajirs on the other hand.
All while condemning the Muhajirs for all their injustice against them, they mimic the Muhajirs in their love for India and the West. Even when these supposed "Sindhi nationalists" claim they want independence or at least greater autonomy for Sindh, they mimic the Muhajirs in condemning the so-called "partition."
The huge contradiction is if Sindhis think their province is suffering from being a part of a country of 170 to 180 million people, what beneficiaries do they see in becoming part of a country of one billion people??
The Sindhis are an extremely confused people misguided by their feudal landlords and corrupt leaders in the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) as well as their "saints."
They constantly imitate people around them much like parrots who repeat only what they hear. The Sindhi people overall lack any critical or independent thinking.
This is even acknowledged by many educated Sindhis themselves who criticize the Sindhi people and leaders for touting Sindh to be the center of civilization and everyone else's achievements to be simply stolen from Sindhi knowledge and enlightenment.
The Muhajir upper class's condemnation of the army and ISI's inhumane actions in Bangladesh and Balochistan has sent these so-called "Sindhi nationalists" wild with joy. For this they have been trying even harder to fit in politically with the Muhajir upper class.
The Sindhis are naive to think the Muhajir upper class will condemn the Punjabi dominated bureaucracy's reckless and selfish policies in Sindh just because they condemned it in Bangladesh and Balochistan.
Once again the Muhajirs despise the Pakistani military and the ISI for dis-empowering them and replacing them as the feudal lords of Pakistan, not because they stand for human rights or anything of that sort.
Also partially because the Muhajir upper class benefited from Sindh's exploitation and still do as opposed Bangladesh and Balochistan. In Karachi the upper class Muhajirs were given plenty of property as "compensation" for leaving behind their properties and belongings in India. In rural Sindh many Muhajir Nawabs gained land at the expense of Sindhi peasants.
Many of these Nawabs also get free monthly payments from the government at the expense of the Pakistani taxpayers.
This is why the Muhajir upper class will not condemn the exploitation of Sindh and it's local population the way they condemn the government and military's conduct in Bangladesh during early 1970s and presently in Balochistan.
And even if the Muhajir upper class does so, they will still not be as vocal about it as they are in regards to Bangladesh and Balochistan.
I have Pakistani friends of all major ethnicities. Weather they are Punjabis, Pakhtuns, Baloch, Kashmiris and more independent minded Sindhis. And despite their political differences amongst one another regarding ethnicity and provincial equality, they all seem to share a distaste for the Muhajir upper class and their hypocrisy.
They all seem to share the same sentiments that if the Muhajirs really love India, they should move back there and leave Pakistan for good. Before I could not find myself in anymore agreement with them. But now I find myself in disagreement with this notion. The problem is that if the Muhajirs are moved back to India or wherever they came from, it will not mend the damage they have inflicted on Pakistan.
This is why I believe they should suffer the consequences of all problems they created which is what they complain about so much today more than anyone else in Pakistan. Except of course they choose to blame it on the Pakistani people collectively instead of taking the shame upon themselves.
If the Muhajirs are given the choice to return to India by the Indian government and people, it should not be done without imposing a huge departure taxation on them. The taxation should then be spent on repairing all the damages they have caused.
I seriously doubt they will choose to simply leave for India. They have far too many assets in Pakistan. Whether in property or finance or political power, they have plenty of it and they don't to want to give it all up. They want more and detest the military for holding most of the financial and political power, which is why they claim Pakistan to have been a 'part' of India and call for the so-called "partition" to be reversed.
They want to hold on to all their assets and properties in Pakistan while being able to travel freely over to India and back without any restrictions.
As for the middle class Muhajirs, I doubt their desire to depart even more so. For them Pakistan is a safe heaven where they can practice their extreme brand of Islam and torment non-Muslims as well as one another along Shia-Sunni differences.
This will not be possible in India where they would be a minority and where Brahmans get to do most of the tormenting against Sikhs, Christians, Muslims, Dalits and others.
It is sad but clear the Muhajir upper class have no positive intentions towards Pakistan or any country. Like the Brahmans of India, wealth and power are the only things they seem to care about.
Their influence in Pakistan has been overall negative. For decades they remained "patriotic" towards Pakistan and loyal to their extreme brand of Islam until the Punjabization of the military and civilian bureaucracy turned them into pseudo-secularists and Indophiles.
People who have condemned the pro-Indian, pro-Western Muhajir fifth column have often termed it the liberal lynch mob. I call it the Muhajir lynch mob.
The conditions of the country saw deterioration under their rule and what we see much of today in Sindh is a result of that.
This is not to suggest military is a much better of a ruling entity than the Muhajir upper class. The military remains an equal domestic threat to Pakistan as does the Muhajir upper class.
Today the military acts like a cancer, slowly destroying Pakistan from within. With their exploitation of Pakistan and their brutal tactics in dealing with political opposition has only fueled more ethnic tensions and separatism in the country.
Already under General Zia Ul-Haq it destroyed the country's possibly last hopes of progress by lifting the birth control programs, sending Pakistan's population into a skyrocketing growth rate and adding towards a hundred million more people in less than three decades.
Islamitization of the Pakistani population and the empowering of religious fundamentalists in Pakistan is another curse right from the military.
Even within the military there is suspicion in between the ranks with rumors of generals fearing their commanders and intelligence outfits are plotting against them. The intelligence and commanders have the same fears of the generals plotting to dismiss them. It's as if the cancer has turned so deadly that it is infecting itself inside out.
Many educated upper class Punjabis also see the military for what it has become. With no regards to the laws, including constitutional laws and their other crimes against the country, they have played an enormous role in slowing down progress.
General Kayani might be trying to reverse all of that, but the damage is so severe that his efforts may take decades before there is improvement.
But regardless of all that, there's a difference between living under military rule and Muhajir rule, which is why I prefer the military to the Muhajir upper class. Under Muhajir rule everything degenerates and becomes an utter mess.
While the military builds towns, cities, businesses, cantonments for it's own selfish ambitions, it gives some benefits to the population. The military defense housing areas in Karachi for example provide decent roads and infrastructure compared to the urban Muhajir areas with leaking sewers, muddy roads etc.
Even the building of this infrastructure and private businesses provides jobs and opportunities to the ordinary people.
The Muhajir upper class seems to be nowhere as close as competitive. And as I wrote the military acts like a cancer, destroying the country from within but still at a slow pace, which still gives us time to save it before it goes into complete chaos.
Muhajir rule gives us no such opportunity or collateral beneficiary that military rule does and has been almost entirely negative on Pakistani society.
Conclusion:
The purpose of this post is not to depict all Muhajirs as bad, weather in the middle class, upper class or any other class. There are many educated Muhajirs who are sincere to their country and have done much for Pakistan.
Nor is the aim of this post to depict Muhajirs as one ethnic group. As already mentioned more than once before, the Muhajirs consist of multiple ethnicities that immigrated to Pakistan from other parts of the subcontinent during independence.
They include many Kashmiris as well who fled Indian controlled Kashmir, yet their attitude is shockingly the same as most other upper class Muhajirs. These "Kashmiri Muhajirs" have also taken it upon themselves to speak on behalf of the entire Kashmiri population or try to represent them.
They project their opinions as much when their opinions are the exact opposite of most Kashmiris.
Then there are also many Pakistanis from the upper class whom are only partially Muhajir (such as myself), yet their Muhajir side speaks louder than their Pakistani side. This in most usual cases is due to being inspired by their Muhajir parents/guardians, friends, peers and/or relatives.
There are many of such people amongst Pakistan's fifth column. Also the belief that Pakistan would be free of it's current problems had it not been for the upper class Muhajirs and their savage-like, ultra-religious medieval middle class is untrue.
The Muhajir upper class was exploiting Pakistan from day one. They perhaps had their dirty plans for the country in the works from even before independence. Though I have yet to confirm it's truth, I've heard claims that Liaquat Ali Khan planned on reserving property in Karachi strictly only for Muhajirs as "compensation" for leaving behind their land properties and other belongings upon leaving their home territories for Pakistan.
Jinnah rejected such a proposal terming it as discrimination against the local Sindhis.
If what I heard is true, it proves the upper class Muhajirs were ready to exploit Pakistan and it's people from day one. But as I mentioned above, it wouldn't mean Pakistan would be free of it's current problems even without the Muhajirs.
Despite their corruption and exploitation of Pakistan, the country was still relatively advanced and enjoyed a good environment, a safe society and a simplistic way of life.
All this was due to the fact that Pakistan had a sustainable population until around the 1970s.
Corruption in Pakistan weather on the part of the Muhajirs or the Punjabi dominated military would have had a much less harm on the country had the population stayed at a sustainable number. But at the same time the Muhajir upper class does nothing to help the situation. They have only made things worse for Pakistan from day one. Corruption combined with overpopulation has had devastating effects on the country.
Pakistan would no doubt be a much better off country had it not been for the Muhajir upper class, but not entirely free of it's problems for the reasons I explained.
Tarek Fatah, while not a resident of Pakistan is still paraded as a Pakistani despite his recent affirming the fact that he is Indian born and that his family migrated from East Punjab in 1947.
Him residing outside Pakistan and abandoning his Pakistani citizenship makes him slightly different from other Muhajir fifth columnists, though he clearly is one of them.
Irfan Husain is also a complicated personality to understand. At some times his writings make a lot of sense, at other times they display the same message as the rest of the Muhajir fifth column.
Nevertheless, his sentiments have put him in the same category as the rest of the leading Muhajir fifth columnists.
And even amongst the Muhajir middle class there exist many peaceful, tolerant and like minded people who are not extremist in any way. In fact they are strongly patriotic towards Pakistan, the country they were born and raised in and which they call their home.
It's the corrupt pro-Indian/Western Muhajirs who give all other Muhajirs a bad name and only help isolate them from Pakistani society.
The purpose of this post is to rather point out that it is no coincidence that all the anti-Pakistan crooks in the media and even amongst the expatriates happen to have Indian roots, even if partially.
All Muhajirs might not be traitors to Pakistan, but almost all traitors to Pakistan are Muhajirs.
So the next time you see anti-Pakistan propaganda coming out of the Pakistani media weather in Pakistan or amongst the expatriate community or some over-excitement about India and Bangladesh's imaginary advancements and superiority over Pakistan or that all South Asians are "the same," do a family background check on the individual(s) behind such propaganda and I'll guarantee at least one side of their family history will take you to Delhi, Gujarat, Hyderabad Deccan, Calcutta, East Punjab or some other part of the subcontinent.
Post update: Here is a recent quote from one of my Sindhi relatives on his attendance to Ayesha Jalal's lectures:
"she is full of herself ...very arrogant ...i was there....i just asked her one question : as historian to confirm that israel and pakistan were both the only 2 religioon based states to be established in 20th century ....she went defensive almost balisstic ....educated liberal /progressive mujjus very nervous these days ...big identity crisis looming"
