Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), under the guise of democracy and federalism, has in reality always functioned as an ethnic and racist party.
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Posted on: 9/15/2025
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Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), under the guise of democracy and federalism, has in reality always functioned as an ethnic and racist party. Hatred and prejudice against the Mohajirs is part of its inherited politics.
It was PPP itself that sowed the seeds of linguistic and ethnic division in Sindh, creating the rural – urban divide. After coming into power in 1972, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto presented a linguistic bill in the Sindh Assembly declaring that Sindhi would be made the official language of Sindh for the promotion of the Sindhi language. If the true purpose had only been language promotion, the same step should have been taken in Punjab, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well. But it was done only in Sindh, purely on the basis of prejudice and ethnic bias, and thus the seeds of hatred were sown in Sindh. Bhutto’s cousin, Mumtaz Bhutto, who was then the Chief Minister of Sindh, acted on Bhutto’s policy and incited ethnic riots in Sindh. As a result, many areas in the interior of Sindh were emptied of their Muhajir residents, forcing them to migrate to Karachi, Hyderabad, and Mirpurkhas. Bhutto raised the slogan of socialism, but in reality, he was a racist feudal lord. That is why he expelled true socialist thinkers from PPP and instead filled the party with feudal lords and landlords. This encouraged a feudal mindset that only landlords deserved to live freely while poor people remained their slaves. Under the guise of the nationalization policy, Bhutto seized the industries, banks, insurance companies, and educational institutions in Karachi, most of which belonged to Mohajirs. The aim was to enslave the Mohajir community economically. He further deepened the ethnic divide by introducing the rural – urban quota system in Sindh, which effectively closed the doors of government jobs and educational institutions to Mohajirs. To bridge the rural – burban divide and reduce hostility, I met with Sain G.M. Syed. These meetings had positive results as the rural and urban people of Sindh began coming closer. In 1988, to end the rural – urban division, I signed a 59-point agreement in Karachi with Benazir Bhutto. On PPP’s behalf, the agreement was signed by Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, while on MQM’s behalf it was signed by our chairman, Shaheed Azim Ahmed Tariq. However, Benazir Bhutto did not implement even a single clause of this agreement. Instead, she began retaliatory actions against MQM, leading to the killings of our workers. This brutality continued during her second tenure in 1994 as well. After Benazir Bhutto, in 2008, we decided to support Asif Ali Zardari to end old hostilities and divisions. But PPP’s feudal mindset persisted, and it continued to commit injustices against MQM, Mohajirs , and the urban areas of Karachi, Hyderabad, and other cities. This cycle of oppression and ethnic discrimination by PPP’s government against the urban population still continues today. The PPP feudal lords have also enslaved poor Sindhi peasants (haris). They exploit these peasants for their own political interests but are never willing to give them any real share. The condition of rural Sindh remains unchanged. Poor Sindhis still suffer under the oppression of the feudal lords. PPP’s landlords forcibly extract votes from these peasants but never allow them any genuine representation in the assemblies. That is why those who enter the Sindh Assembly from the interior are all feudal lords; there is not a single poor farmer or common Sindhi among them. Until this feudal and landlord mentality and practice changes, and until the feudal system itself is abolished, the conditions in Sindh will not change. Therefore, the people of Sindh must unite to free themselves from this oppressive system.
Altaf Hussain.
London.
315th public address on TikTok on September 12, 2025.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), under the guise of democracy and federalism, has in reality always functioned as an ethnic and racist party. Hatred and prejudice against the Mohajirs is part of its inherited politics. <br>It was PPP itself that sowed the seeds of linguistic and… <a href="https://t.co/Vwr917kNEw">pic.twitter.com/Vwr917kNEw</a></p>— Altaf Hussain (@AltafHussain_90) <a href="https://twitter.com/AltafHussain_90/status/1967596374397960376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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