“End Systematic Injustices Against Muhajirs - Grant the Right to Self-Determination as Enshrined in the
Charter”
The time has come to end the historic injustices and state-sponsored oppression perpetrated against the #Mohajir nation. I call upon the global conscience and the international community to take cognizance of the long-standing persecution of Mohajirs in Pakistan and demand, in accordance with the United Nations Charter, that they be granted their inalienable Right to Self-Determination.
Pakistan was established through the sacrifices of our ancestors, yet the Muhajirs the very architects of this nation are today treated as aliens in their own homeland. Denied equal access to employment, education, and advancement, they are systematically reduced to third-class citizenship. Muhajirs have been massacred simply for demanding their constitutional rights. This tragic reality of state repression is not a relic of the past, it continues unabated to this day.
The United Nations Charter guarantees all peoples the right to self-governance, equal treatment under international law, and the liberty to shape their own political destiny. Pakistan proclaims equality for all its citizens, yet facts on the ground suggest otherwise.
If we are truly one nation, then why has there never been a military operation of similar magnitude in Punjab as those that have been inflicted upon Muhajirs in #Karachi and Hyderabad, or on #Baloch and #Pashtun populations in their respective regions? Why have targeted killings, ethnic cleansing, and political disenfranchisement become synonymous with the Muhajir experience yet remained unacknowledged and unaddressed by the state?
In 1964, when Muhajirs stood in support of Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the nation's founder Quaid-e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, against the dictatorship of General Ayub Khan, they were attacked in their neighborhoods, and many were martyred. In 1972, the Bhutto regime introduced a discriminatory language bill in Sindh, inciting linguistic conflict. When Muhajirs peacefully resisted this injustice, they were once again subjected to violent retaliation and forced internal displacement. Under the guise of the rural-urban quota system, the Bhutto government institutionalized exclusion by closing the doors of education and public service to the Muhajir youth.
Those who slander the MQM as an ethnic or sectarian organization must answer: who was behind the massacres of Muhajirs between 1947 and 1972, when MQM didn’t even exist? Was I, Altaf Hussain, present in politics at that time?
We formed MQM as a democratic response to decades of marginalization. We demanded equality. In return, our neighborhoods were invaded, our people were killed, and our only political platform was fragmented through state engineering. #MQM was repeatedly targeted with malicious propaganda, false allegations of terrorism, and brutal military operations. The most egregious example was the 2016 siege and destruction of our central headquarters, Nine Zero, which was sealed, torched, and razed.
To the generals of the #Pakistan Army, I pose a direct question: What is our crime? Why are we condemned to this cycle of humiliation and death? I have consistently appealed for national unity and social cohesion. I have raised my voice for the release of political prisoners and condemned injustice against all oppressed ethnicities whether Sindhi, Baloch, Pashtun, Punjabi, Seraiki, Kashmiri, Hazara, or Gilgiti-Baltistani. MQM has never promoted hatred. We have embraced all communities, represented them in Parliament, and included them in our movement — yet we were rewarded with betrayal and violence. 1/2
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