Exclusive to OpEdNews: OpEdNews Op Eds 5/16/2014 at 15:16:34 Pakistan Supreme Court case highlights plight of stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh By Abdus-Sattar Ghazali (about the author) Permalink (Page 2 of 2 pages) Related Topic(s): Bangladesh; Biharis; India; Pakistan; Pakistan Muslim League; Pakistan Peoples Party; Petition; Stranded Pakistanis; Suffering; Supreme Court, Add Tags Add to My Group(s) View Ratings | Rate It Become a Fan (4 fans) opednews Wars and conflicts have displaced millions of people around the world, but those who flee such conflicts normally receive international attention and extensive media coverage. Internecine fighting among Afghan groups or conflicts in the Horn of Africa have drawn world reaction with aid agencies and UNHCR scrambling to help them. In the case of the stranded Pakistanis, if anybody knows, nobody has bothered to help alleviate their sufferings. In due course most of the people of Pakistan also forgot about these stranded Pakistanis who were being projected as patriots during the 1971 war and its immediate aftermath. These patriots of 1971 are now considered as pariahs by Pakistan that has stopped owning them as it fears that, on migration, they would settle in Sindh province and join the ethnic political ranks of Mohajirs (the Urdu speaking people who migrated from India to Pakistan after independence in 1947.) The stranded Pakistanis or Biharis are trapped between the conflicting histories and ideologies of the South Asian sub-continent. Read also: What led to the break-up of Pakistan? ghazali.net/book1/chapter_6.htm
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