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Sindhis are predominantly Muslim, but have a minority Hindu population, making up the largest Hindu minority population in Pakistan. [19] Sindhi Muslim culture is highly influenced by Sufi doctrines and principles and some of the popular cultural icons of Sindh are Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Jhulelal and Sachal Sarmast. [20]
[49] [50] because over the past few years, laws governing the rights of religious minorities in Pakistan have changed from neutral to explicitly discriminatory. [51] A 2014 report by the Movement for Solidarity and Peace (MSP) says about 1,000 women in Pakistan are forcibly converted to Islam every year (700 Christian and 300 Hindu ).
The ethnic groups in Karachi includes all the ethnic groups in Pakistan. Main ethnic group " Muhajirs " are in simple majority in Karachi with 50.60% of its population while Pathans are in second with 13.52 and Sindhi are in third number with only 11.12% according to 2023 Pakistani census.
The Urdu term muhājir (Urdu: مہاجر) comes from the Arabic muhājir (Arabic: مهاجر), meaning an "immigrant", [13] [14] [15] or "emigrant". [16] This term is associated in early Islamic history to the migration of Muslims and connotes ‘separation, migration, flight, specifically the flight of the Prophet from Mecca to Medina’.
Urdu-speaking people ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Pakistan" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total. ... Religious Minorities in ...
[5] [6] With an estimated national population of 252 million in 2024, [5] ethnic Punjabis thus number approximately 112.8 million in Pakistan; [a] [54] this makes Punjabis the largest ethnic group in Pakistan by population. [5] [6] Religious homogeneity remains elusive as a predominant Sunni population with Shia, Ahmadiyya and Christian ...
Native speakers of Urdu are spread across South Asia. [note 1] [11] [12] The vast majority of them are Muslims of the Hindi–Urdu Belt of northern India, [note 2] [13] [14] [15] followed by the Deccani people of the Deccan plateau in south-central India (who speak Deccani Urdu), and most of the Muhajir people of Pakistan.
Urdu is spoken by 6.55% of the total population, majority of whom are Muslims.People who speak Urdu as their mother tongue mostly hail from the districts of Hyderabad, Karimnagar, Mahbubnagar, Adilabad, Nizamabad, Warangal and Khammam in the Telangana region and Kurnool, Ananthapur, Prakasam of Andhra Pradesh, which were part of the erstwhile Hyderabad state.