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During the 1970s, Mohajir students, among
whom were Altaf Hussain, Imran Farooq and Farooq Sattar, founded
the Mohajir Student Federation (MSF) to defend the interests of the
Mohajirs against the rise of Sindhi nationalism (Malik, p.46).
Hussain and his colleges also founded, in 1978, the All-Pakistan
Mohajir Student Organization (APMSO) at the Karachi University
(McDonald, p.14).
The Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) was
officially created in March 1984 (Malik, p.46; Amin, p.280; Ahmed),
although one source indicates that the movement started in 1986,
the date from which the MQM's activities began to flourish
(Degenhardt, p.265). The MQM stemmed from a group of Karachi
University students and started to predominate on the political
scene of urban Sindh after a large gathering on the Karachi campus
in August 1986 (Lamb). MQM headquarters are located in a Mohajir
district of Karachi and the movement is led since its creation by
Altaf Hussain (Far East, p.850). The MQM's President is Azim
Ahmad Tariq and its Secretary General Imran Farooq (Far
East, p.850).
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Lamb, Chritina
"Kalashnikov Rule Maintains the Ethnic
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Malik, Iftikhar
Ethnicity and Political Ethos in
Sindh: A Case-Study of the Muhajireen of Karachi, Toronto:
Centre des études sud-asiatiques de l'Université de
Toronto, texte présenté à la conférence
du Centre des études sud-asiatiques tenue le 8
décembre 1989.
Mc Donald, Hamish
"A New Ethnic Force Flexes its Muscles",
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