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Karachi is a town where the mohajirs dominate. Mohajirs, meaning emigrants, are the ethnic group of Muslim Urdu-speakers who fled India at the time of Independence in 1947. They are, by and large, well educated and professional, and dominate too in the Sindh Province of Pakistan, one of the regions that Pakistan is divided up into. They were never fully accepted in Pakistan as true 'sons of the soil' and because they suffered discrimination, many of them formed themselves into a political party, the MQM, to argue for equal rights in education and employment. There are now MQM members of the Pakistani Parliament. Interestingly, former president Pervez Musharraf is a mohajir, from Karachi. The popular MQM leader is Altaf Hussain who is exiled in London, England.