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	SAYEED HASAN KHAN -- CRITICAL REFLECTIONS OF A MOHAJIR -- LOGOS 4.1 WINTER 2005
		The mohajirs were Urdu-speaking versus Bengali-speakers, and the mohajir industrialists were an integral part of a Punjabi investor elite.
		Their emotional home remained England in the same way the Urdu speaking mohajirs of Bangla desh are psychologically and emotionally are linked to the metropolitan part of Pakistan (which most of them had not even seen).
		The refusal of the Bhutto’s government to allow Urdu speaking mohajirs, called Biharis, from Bangla desh to enter also angered compatriot here.
	www.logosjournal.com /issue_4.1/khan.htm

	txt.htm
		After that, in January 1971 and July 1972, there were riots between the Urdu-speaking Mohajirs and the Sindhi-speakers after which antagonism between the two communities increased and the Mohajirs emerged as yet another nationality in Pakistan at the behest of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM).
		The province of Sindh 1, home to both Mohajirs and Sindhis, has seen much ethnic tension since the middle 1980s when the MQM became a militant force to be reckoned with.
		Moreover, this minority (the Mohajirs) emigrated from India after the country was carved out of British India in 1947.
	www.teluq.uquebec.ca /diverscite/SecArtic/Arts/2002/rahman/txt.htm

	Muhajir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Muhajir or Mohajir is essentially an ethnic group within Pakistan.
		Muhajirs are Urdu-speaking people who originally emigrated from India to Pakistan during the partition of 1947.
		In particular, it refers to the early Muslims, companions of Muhammad, who emigrated with him from Makka to Medina in the wake of the Hijra, as opposed to the Ansar, or Madinan Muslims of the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohajirs

	Minorities At Risk (MAR)
		Mohajirs, which means literally "refugee," are the Urdu-speaking Muslims who fled India after the 1947 partition of the sub-continent and their descendents.
		Mohajirs are represented by the Muttiheda Qaumi Movement (MQM, originally the Mohajir Qaumi Movement) and its various factions.
		Mohajirs are also likely to continue their protest strategies for the foreseeable future, especially so long as the Musharraf regime postpones national and provincial elections.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/pakmohaj.htm

	HoustonChronicle.com - Reaping the Whirlwind
		"The feudals of Punjab have a hatred for the Urdu-speaking mohajirs.
		Mohajir domination, both economic and cultural, of Sindh's urban areas was bound to force a reaction.
		His centralist bent was similar to the mohajir vision of a unified state, not one cleaved by regionalism and ethnic influence.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/special/pakistan/descent.html

	Ethnicity and Regional Aspirations In Pakistan
		the ruling elite, mostly Urdu speaking Mohajirs from north India, was completely against the Bengalis.
		Similarly, the Mohajirs of Pakistan were emerging as an important ethnic group with the growth of MQM since the 1980s as a major force in Urban centers in Sindh, especially in Karachi and the twin city of Hyderabad.
		The Mohajirs were no longer in apposition to exert as much influence as they did not vote for Ayub in the 1964 Presidential election.
	www.khyberwatch.netfirms.com /ethnicity.htm

	Cultural Groups - The People of Pakistan - Pakistan - Asia
		These migrants later identified themselves as mohajirs, meaning “refugees” in both Urdu and Arabic.
		Mohajirs were the vanguard of the Pakistan Movement, which advocated the partition of British India in order to create the independent nation of Pakistan for Indian Muslims.
		Mohajirs, Punjabis, and Pashtuns are the dominant groups, while Sindhis and Baluchis struggle to advance and protect their interests.
	www.countriesquest.com /asia/pakistan/the_people_of_pakistan/cultural_groups.htm

	Daily Excelsior... Editorial
		The Mohajirs, along with the Punjabis, became well entrenched in the emerging power equation of Pakistan and their position was further strengthened with the declaration of Urdu as the national language.
		The Mohajirs were in the forefront of the movement for Pakistan, but unfortunately for them, the land of Islam, as envisioned by them, was formed elsewhere in the north-east and north-west of erstwhile British India, not in the Muslim minority provinces where this movement was spearheaded.
		The Mohajirs who migrated to Pakistan in search of greener pastures were mostly bureaucrats, businessmen, and rich landlords who expected to retain their predominant position in Pakistani society and politics.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /01jan05/edit.htm

	Pakistan - The Mohajirs and the MQM
		The Mohajirs are Urdu-speaking Muslim immigrants who came here from India after the partition between Pakistan and India in 1947.
		Pakistan - The Mohajirs and the MQM - DangerFinder
		As of the beginning of 1995, the Mohajirs are the principal disturbers in the Karachi area.
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/pakistan/player3.htm

	Mohajirs
		Muhajirs are Urdu -speaking people who originally emigratted from India to Pakistan during the partition of 1947.While Muhajirs form what amounts to an ethnic group within Pakistan, the group is actually comprised of people from differentethnic groups and regions in India, such as Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Hyderabad.
		Muhajir or Mohajir is essentially an ethinc group within Pakistan.
		Muhajir is an Arabic word, widely used in theMuslim world that refers to someone who has emigrated from one place to another.
	www.therfcc.org /mohajirs-271170.html

	rediff.com: Musharraf skirts Mohajirs issue
		Mohajirs are the Urdu-speaking population from India who migrated to Pakistan when the sub-continent was partitioned in 1947.
		Sections of Mohajirs claim that they are discriminated in Pakistan.
		The 57-year-old Musharraf, himself a Mohajir, did not respond but turned stern and put up his hands in the air as if to say: What are you asking?
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/jul/15inpak26.htm

	Prayer for the Mohajirs of Pakistan - 30-Days Muslim World Prayer Guide - Day 29
		While other Muslims from India who migrated to Pakistan assimilated into the nation, the Urdu speaking Mohajirs, who settled in Karachi and the surrounding province of Sindh, continue to use this name even today.
		One of the fastest growing cities in Pakistan, the city of Karachi, with a population approaching 10 million (by some accounts), is over half Mohajir and is a political and social tinderbox.
		A militant, ethnic based party called the Mohajir Quomi Movement (MQM) continues in a violent campaign against the government, demanding more representation and rights for the Mohajirs.
	www.30-days.net /email00/day29.htm

	The Acorn: Children of a failed theory
		The imposition of Urdu as a national language further complicated matters: the Mohajirs supported it, but the Punjabis, Sindhis and most of all the Bengalis strongly opposed it.
		Pakistan, the homeland for the subcontinent's Muslims did not fully deliver on its promise: the new country came to be dominated by the Punjabi majority and in course of time Mohajirs (the immigrant Muslims of India) and Bengalis (of the country's eastern wing) came to resent Punjabi domination.
		Pakistan, the homeland for the subcontinent's Muslims did not fully deliver on its promise: the new country came to be dominated by the Punjabi majority and in course of time Mohajirs (the immigrant Muslims of India) and Bengalis (of the country's eastern wing) came to resent Punjabi domination.
	www.paifamily.com /opinion/archives/000902.html

	Asiaweek.com 07/28/95
		Descendants of Urdu-speaking Muslims who fled to Pakistan after the 1947 Partition of the subcontinent, the Mohajirs make up more than two-thirds of Karachi's 12 million residents.
		Those hopes were given a chance to take root when the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto began peace talks July 13 with the Mohajir Qoumi Movement (MQM), the political party that represents the city's Mohajir population.
		Altaf told Asiaweek that while he does not favor such an autonomous region for the Mohajirs, increasingly disgruntled followers are pushing him to consider redrawing the boundary lines.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/95/0728/nat1.html

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