Sheikh Adeel Danish - Political Affiliation

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Urdu: متحدہ قومی موومنٹ) generally known as MQM or simply Muttahida, is the fourth largest political party in the newly elected National Assembly of Pakistan

MQM is the only Pakistani political party which grew out of a student organization. The student organization, All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organization (APMSO) started on 11 June 1978 at the University of Karachi by Altaf Hussain. Hussain remains its leader.APMSO gave birth to Muhajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) on 18 March 1984, which by 1991 "established a virtual monopoly over representation of the Urdu-speaking community in urban Sindh."

On July 26, 1997, MQM officially removed the term Muhajir from its name, and replaced it with Muttahida ("United").to, "further the programme of national development" and to carry out "a nation-wide campaign against feudal domination."

MQM claims to be making speedy inroads all over Pakistan.

ELECTION 2008
UPDATED

RESULTS

National Assembly 19 Seats

S.No.	Name	Constituency	Area	Votes
01	S. Tayyab Hussain	NA-219	Hyderabad,Latifabad	1,68,136
02	Salahuddin	NA-220	Hyderabad City	1,47, 040
03	Khawaja Sohail	NA-240	Baldia, Pak.Colony	67,807
04	Iqbal Qadri Adv	NA-241	Orangi Town	93,617
05	Dr. A. Qadir Khanzada	NA-242	Orangi Town, Qasba	1,47,892
06	Abdul Waseem	NA-243	Surjani Town	1,67,764
07	Sh. Salahuddin	NA-244	New and North.Karachi	1,74,044
08	Farhat Khan	NA-245	North and Nazim Abad	1,49,157
09	Sufyan Yousuf	NA-246	Federal.B.Area	1,86,933
10	Dr. Nadeem Ahsan	NA-247	Nazimabad, Liaquatabad	1,68,007
11	Dr. Farooq Sattar	NA-249	Ranchor Line,Kharadar	1.03,846
12	Khushbukht Shujaat	NA-250	Defence, Clifton	52,045
13	Waseem Akhtar	NA-251	Society, Lines Area	83,537
14	Abdul Rashid Godial	NA-252	PIB, Bhadur Abad	87,280
15	Hyder Abbas Rizvi	NA-253	Gulshan-e-Iqbal	97.074
16	Dr. Ayub Shaikh	NA-254	Korangi	1,32,648
17	Asif Hasnain	NA-255	Landhi	1,57,971
18	Iqbal M. Ali	NA-256	Shah Faisal	1,23,491
19	Sajid Ahmed	NA-257	Malir	1,34,448

Sindh Assembly 39 Seats

S.No.	Name	Constituency	Area	Votes
01	Faheem Ahmed	PS-64	Mirpur Khas	32,697
02	M.Akram Adil	PS-45	Hyderabad City	73,209
03	Waseem Hussain	PS-46	Hyderabad City	74,116
04	Zubair Ahmed Khan	PS-48	Lateefabad, Hyderabad	1,11,108
05	Shoail Yousuf Khan	PS-49	Lateefabd,Hali Rd,Site Hyd	56,817
06	Haneef Sheikh	PS-91	Baldia Town	37,175
07	Abdul Haseeb	PS-92	Pak. Colony	Awaited
08	Raza Haider	PS-94	Orangi Town and Qasba	79,634
09	S. Manzar Imam	PS-95	Orangi	81,659
10	Mazahir Ameer	PS-96	Qasba Colonyand Aligarh	49,949
11	M. Adil Khan	PS-97	Surjani Town	54,603
12	M. Moeen Khan	PS-98	North Karachi	95,168
13`	Kh. Izharulhassan	PS-99	New & North Karachi	76,880
14	Adil Siddiqui	PS-100	New Karachi	75,336
15	Abdul Moeed	PS-101	North Nazim abad	58,976
16	Imamuddin Shahzad	PS-102	North Karachi and Ancholi	98,174
17	Dr. M. Ali Shah	PS-103	North and Nazim abad	50,029
18	Rehan Zafar	PS-104	Nazim abad & Gulbahar	92,109
19	Khalid-Bin-Wilayat	PS-105	L-abad,Karimabad, FB.area	96,902
20	Anwar Alam	PS-106	Azizabad, Liaquat abad	89,137
21	Shoaib Bukhari	PS-107	Liaquat abad	75,383
22	Shoaib Ibrahim	PS-110	Rabchor Line & Kharadar	36,356
23	M. Tahir Quraishi	PS-111	Ranchor Line & Lyari	67,529
24	Moqeem Alam	PS-112	Burns Road, Saddar	27,371
25	S. Askari Taqvi	PS-113	Defence, Clifton	24, 232
26	Rouf Siddiqui	PS-114	Mehmood abad	22,940
27	Raza Haroon	PS-115	Society	60,146
28	S. Sardar Ahmed	PS-116	Bhadur abad	46,550
29	Dr. Saghir Ahmed	PS-117	PIB Colony	50,743
30	Muzammil Quraishi	PS-118	Gulshan-e-Iqbal	44,811
31	Nadeem Maqbool	PS-119	Gulistan-e-Johar and Cant	41,264
32	Nishat A. Zia	PS-120	Shah Faisal	71,140
33	Waseem Ahmed	PS-121	Malir. Model colony	73,680
34	Khalid Iftikhar	PS-122	Landhi	92,427
35	Sh. M. Afzal (Khalid)	PS-123	Korangi	76,219
36	Alim-ur-Rehman	PS-124	Korangi, Bhitaiabad	53,778
37	Moeen Amir Pirzada	PS-125	Korangi Industrial area	45,831
38	Faisal Subzwari	PS-126	G.Johar- Scheme 33	42, 750
39	Nisar Panhwar	PS-127	Malir	65,473

Muhajir/Urdu Speaking Community of Pakistan:-

Muhajir or Mohajir (Urdu: مہاجر) is a term widely used to describe the Muslims who migrated to Pakistan after the Partition of British ruled subcontinent. The term Muhajir is now being replaced by "Urdu Speaking people" or "Urdu's" because of its connotations.

Muhajirs
Total population
13.2 million
Regions with significant populations
Pakistan, Bangladesh, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Australia, United Arab Emirates, United States, Canada
Language(s)
Urdu
Religion(s)
Islam (a Sunni majority and a Shia minority)

The Urdu-Speakers (Muhajirs) are multi-ethnic group of people comprising of mixed ethnicities such as Persians, Pashtuns(Afghans), Turks, Arabs, and Indians. Muslims from all over the Middle East and Central Asia settled down in Northern India and the language Urdu evolved under Muslim rule of India. After the independence of Pakistan these group of Muhajirs(Urdu-Speakers) migrated to Pakistan. One thing that unite all Urdu-Speakers or Muhajirs regardless of what origin/race they are from is their language Urdu.

Etymology
Muhajirs in Bangladesh
Culture
- Political ideology
- Intermarriages
- Language
- Lifestyle
- Discrimination
- Pashtun Killers Episode
- 1972 Language Riots
- Massacre of Aligarh Colony
- Mutahida Quami Movement
Well-known Muhajirs(/hailing from Muhajir families) many born in India before 1947
- Politics
- Judiciary
- Diplomats
- Bankers
- Industrialists/Entrepreneurs
- Religious Scholars
- Educationists
- Scientists
- Sports Celebrities
- Actors
- Art and literature
- Performing art and media
- Random High Achievers
- Regions with significant populations

Etymology

A railway station in Pakistan during the Partition of India. Many people abandoned their heritage, homes and possessions and left for the country of many promises.

Muhajir is an Arabic word; it means "emigrant," derived regularly from هاجر hājara, meaning "to emigrate." The term is a loanword in the languages of many Muslim peoples, generally also meaning "emigrant." Originally, it referred to the early Muslims, companions of Prophet Muhammad, who emigrated with him from Makkah to Medina in the wake of the Hijra, as opposed to the Ansar, or Madinan Muslims of the time. (See Muhajirun.)

Muhajirs in Bangladesh

In addition to the above population, an estimated 600,000 Urdu speaking Muhajirs that had origins in Bihar prior to partition. They were unfortunate victims of the Pakistani civil war of 1971 and live in 64 refugee camps throughout Bangladesh.Also there are some Bangladeshi Muslims who are still settled in Karachi Pakistan and are referred as Urdu Speaking community.

Culture

Muhajirs are inheritors of the Muslim cultural heritage of India. Their culture has traits of Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Marwad as well as culture of Bihar, and Andhra Pradesh.

Political ideology

Muhajirs hold political opinions ranging from conservative to liberal. Most tend to be secular and support ideals of Western democracy. Muhajirs held comfortable vocations in British India.

Intermarriages

After the partition in 1947 there have been many intermarriages that took place between Punjabi, Kashmiri, Pashtun, Bengali and Persian/Urdu speaking communities which is the reason that its hard to identify native Urdu speaking communities in Pakistan,except for the province of Sindh, where many Urdu speaking people still maintain their distinct identity and heritage. However, with the passage of time, local traditions and essences have greatly seeped in which is why many Urdu speaking communities are so much merged with the Punjabi, Pashtun and Kashmiri communities that they do not identify them as Urdu speaking at all. The second and third generations of these Pakistanis identify themselves as native Pakistanis instead of any specific communities. However, intermarriages between Shia and Sunni Muslims remains very rare in Pakistan.

Language

The original language of the Mughals had been Turkish, but after their arrival in India, they came to adopt Persian and later Urdu. The word Urdu is believed to be derived from the Turkish word 'Hordu', which means army. This word was later anglicised as 'Horde'. Urdu, though of Indian origin, came to be heavily influenced by Persian and Arabic. Urdu speakers have been speaking this language as their Mother tongue for several centuries. Urdu has been the medium of the literature, history and journalism of South Asian Muslims during the last 200 years. Most of the work was complemented by ancestors of present Punjabis and native Urdu speakers in India. Persian language which had its roots during the time of Moguls was then replaced later by Moguls like Shah Jahan who adopted Urdu instead of Persian.

The Punjabi community in Pakistan have done a lot of work in the emergence of Urdu language. Punjabi native speakers earlier used to speak Punjabi before the partition in 1947 but after the partition they adopted Urdu as their mother tongue and started speaking Urdu based Punjabi. That is one of the reason Punjabi community find itself more close to Urdu language than any other community in Pakistan. Also many poets such as Zafar Iqbal, Sir Mohammed Iqbal and Ahmad Faraz contributed their efforts for the Urdu language.

Lifestyle

After partition when Muslims migrated to Pakistan they brought different values with them that varied from region to region they migrated from. The urban lifestyle was mostly coloured by the people who migrated to Pakistan after the partition in the major cities of Pakistan, especially Karachi, as they originally immigrated from mostly urban centres of India before the independence of Pakistan. Some of these urban centres, such as Lucknow and Delhi had been seats of culture, learning and rich heritage since centuries, and rivaled those of the world.

Discrimination

The term "Muhajir" refers to the immigrants of Pakistan who migrated to Pakistan after the partition in 1947. Therefore it represents all Muhajir communities together such as Punjabi community, Pastun Community, Persian or Urdu community, Kashmiri community equally. Therefore referring only one community with term "Muhajir" will cause major discrimination for the other communities who also migrated to Pakistan after partition.

Today, many observers have said that the open discrimination against Muhajirs has considerably been reduced, although the quota system is still applied. This was helped by the fact that some of the top Pakistani figures are of muhajir descent, including people of the performing arts and sports. It is also believed that discrimination against muhajirs has reduced or even vanished in some areas as current President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, and the Governor of Sindh are both Muhajirs. One reason why discrimination has been reduced, is that many Muhajirs have intermarried with the other ethnic groups of Pakistan.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Muhajirs only constituted 7% of the Pakistani population but formed a large part of its bureaucracy due its higher educational levels and support provided by federal government. This created resentment in other linguistic and ethnic groups of Pakistan. The Pakistani government tried to create a balance by introducing job quotas in bureaucracy and educational institutions to help other ethnic and linguistic groups to get their fair representation comparable to their share in the Pakistani population. This affirmative action by the government of Pakistan was resented by the Muhajirs who preferred qualification and merit as the only criteria for jobs and admission into universities.

Pashtun Killers Episode

During the 1964 Presidential Elections, clashes broke out between Urdu speakers and Pashtuns and Punjabis in Karachi, as they were in favour of Fatima Jinnah. It is the fact that President General Ayub Khan supported them, with his own family members taking part in it His son Gohar Ayub is reported to personally fired at people during a victory procession at Liaquatabad. Ayub Khan felt that Muhajir Urdu speaking Muslims were less patriotic than Pastuns and Punjabis. A Shuhuda-i-Urdu mosque was erected in memory of the martyrs at Liaquatabad in Karachi.^{[citation needed]}

Language Riots

In 1972, ethnic riots broke out between Muhajirs and native Sindhis in Urban areas of Sindh. Muhajirs suffered heavily and Sindhis drove them out of their lands from rural areas of Sindh.

Massacre of Aligarh Colony

On December 15, 1986, a group of armed pushtoon/ANP Workers attacked the Aligarh, Orangi and Qasba colonies and adjacent areas of Karachi and killed innocent people, burnt shops and houses.^{[citation needed]} Some buses and shops of Muhajirs and Pushtoons were burnt and a number of them were attacked the next day, in revenge riots.^{[citation needed]} A total of 150 people were killed in the riots.

Mutahida Quami Movement

The MQM party, which sought to bring political representation to the Urdu speaking Muhajir community, was formed by Altaf Hussain in 1985. The Muhajir term that was used earlier to represent MQM was later changed to the word "Mutahida" Qauami Movement.

Well-known Muhajirs(/hailing from Muhajir families) many born in India before 1947

Politics

Pervez Musharraf

Shaukat Aziz

Abdul Qadeer Khan

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Maulana Maududi

Liaquat Ali Khan
Rahimuddin Khan (Ex-Governor of Sindh and Balochistan)
Moinuddin Haider (Ex-Governor of Sindh and Federal interior minister)
Muhammed Faisal (International Mediator Observer (OIC))
Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan (Current Governor of Sindh)
Azeem Ahmed Tariq (Ex-Chairman of MQM)
Mirza Aslam Beg (Former Chief of Army Staff)
Aamir Liaquat Hussain (Religious Minister for State & Member of MQM)
Haider Abbas Rizvi (Deputy parliamentary leader of MQM in National Assembly)
Mustafa Kamal (City Nazim Karachi)
Makhdoom Ali Khan (Former Attorney General Pakistan (2001-2007))
Ali Ahmed Fazeel (Former Attorney General Pakistan)
Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada (Former Attorney General Pakistan (1977-1984), Former Foreign Minister Pakistan, Former Law Minister (1979-1984) and Currently Senior Advisor to Prime Minister on Law)
Farooq Sattar (Deputy Convenor of MQM, Parliamentary Leader)
Dr. Imran Farooq (Covenor of MQM)
Babar Ghori (Federal Minister for Ports & Shipping & Member of MQM)
Abida Sultaan (Heir apparent to princely state of Bhopal at time of Migration, Former Pakistani Ambassador)