Its rival MQM, which represents the descendants of Muslims who fled today's India after partition in 1947, has long kept a political stranglehold on the city, where this ethnic group outnumbers all others.
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After India's partition in 1947, when Chittagong became part of what was then East Pakistan, reputable local citizens were allowed to become members.
According to them, the partition of India took place on the basis of religion - Hindus and Muslims.
His trader father, Naraindas Hiranandani, migrated to Singapore in 1947 from the Sindh Province during the partition of India.
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Most likely this is due to delayed remorse over Britain's blundering policies that led to the partition of India in 1947.
The Kapoors moved to Mumbai in the 1930s, and their occasional visits to Peshawar ended completely after the partition of India in 1947, he says.
The MQM (Muttahida Qaumi Movement) is supported mainly by Muslim Urdu-speaking people whose families moved to Sindh province at the time of the partition of India in 1947.
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Born in Patna in eastern India a year before partition, he reached Lahore as a teenager (after bouncing around the newly created Pakistan), when his father retired there as deputy inspector general of police.
The Kashmir problem is part of the aftermath of the British partition of colonial India.
MQM, which draws support from those, or their kin, who left India at the time of partition in 1947.
The MQM is based in Sindh province, with a membership mostly comprising the descendants of Urdu-speaking migrants to Pakistan at the time of the partition of British India in 1947.
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While making a radio series on the trauma of the partition of British India, and the resulting violence amid which India and Pakistan gained independence, Andrew visited an ashram, a place of retreat, and by chance met a group of women widowed at that time, who have been living in institutions ever since.
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He tried the patience of more practical and straightforwardly ambitious politicians like Nehru, for example by proposing Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's would-be leader, as India's first prime minister, to avert partition.
After all, it was British colonial rulers who, at partition in 1947, drew the boundary line between India and Pakistan that the two nations have battled over ever since.
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