Karachi Society...

Karachi has a very fragmented society with many ethnic divisions within it including Punjabis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, balochies,Pathans being the ones in majority and in Karachi Sindhis are in majority. There’s a lot of ethnocentrism among each of these ethnic groups. There have been many riots in Karachi among the muhajirs and pathans, and sunnis and shias (the 2 religious sects of Islam). Karachi’s society can be noticed to have become more violent over the years; it’s also affected by terrorist attacks. The society of Karachi can be seen be divided largely in different classes like upper class, middle class and lower class and each these classes are divided further into more classes. These class divisions in the society have created the feeling of inferiority and superiority in the population which will never let the people unite. Now that Pakistan is being ruled by corrupt politicians it can be noticed that the rich are becoming richer and poor are becoming poorer. So the same can be noticed in Karachi and also the number of unemployed and poor people has increased. Also the poor people cannot afford good education and most of them cannot even get the basic education. The condition of government schools in Karachi is so bad it seems as if no one ever goes there, and most of the government schools don’t even have teachers. There is also lack of security in Karachi. Everyday there are many cases of mobile snatching or car snatching at gun point, which again increases terror in the citizens.

Despite all these flaws in Karachi society we can take pride in those citizens who are working for the betterment of this city, the youth of this city seems to be very patriotic and comes together as ‘one’ when there city or country needs help.

Alizeh Gohar

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