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This sense of deprivation and anger increased with time that climaxed during the 1980s when ethnic tension and violence erupted pitting Pakistan indigenous ethnic groups against the Mohajir community. It reached its peak with the establishment of several parties representing and fighting for the rights Mohajirs, perhaps the most prominent and notorious being the violence prone MQM, a party accused by the US State Department of torturing, killing, extortion and of having links to terrorist groups. The group is known to receive considerable financial support from India's RAW intelligence agency and has carried out many subversive attacks against the state. As of July 2007, this party is one of the only groups to have openly supported and worked with the military dictatorship of President Pervez Musharaf, incidentally, a Mohajir himself born in India. Its current leader, Altaf Hussain is in hiding in England where he conducts the affair of the party from his London based office. | This sense of deprivation and anger increased with time that climaxed during the 1980s when ethnic tension and violence erupted pitting Pakistan indigenous ethnic groups against the Mohajir community. It reached its peak with the establishment of several parties representing and fighting for the rights Mohajirs, perhaps the most prominent and notorious being the violence prone MQM, a party accused by the US State Department of torturing, killing, extortion and of having links to terrorist groups. The group is known to receive considerable financial support from India's RAW intelligence agency and has carried out many subversive attacks against the state. As of July 2007, this party is one of the only groups to have openly supported and worked with the military dictatorship of President Pervez Musharaf, incidentally, a Mohajir himself born in India. Its current leader, Altaf Hussain is in hiding in England where he conducts the affair of the party from his London based office. | ||
Recently, several Prominent Pakistani politicians | Recently, several Prominent Pakistani politicians traveled to England to press the British government to arrest and charge the leader of this party and expressed confusion as to why England was allowing a known terrorist to live in their country. The mohajir community is a diverse group consisting of many ethnic groups tied together by a common language of Urdu. It should be noted that many have successfully integrated into Pakistani society and publicly oppose the views and tactics of their co-linguists who they see as having been exploited by the criminal underworld and India's intelligence agencies. The Mohajirs overall, still have considerable rights in the country of Pakistan especially when compared to other refugee population such as the that of the Afghans, Iranians and Kashmiri's. They still enjoy considerable influence particularly vis-a-vis the media and print, and also in business and trade. The current president of Pakistan General Parvez Musharaf happens to be a mohajir as well as Prime Minister & Governor of Sindh. | ||
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