While representing rural Sindh, the PPP has never been able to get an electoral majority in Karachi but continues ruling from there. Karachi is the most ethnically diverse city of Pakistan but surprisingly, unlike other provincial capitals like Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta where Punjabis, Pakhtuns and Baloch people are in a majority or have sizeable population, Karachi as the capital of Sindh has a Sindhi-speaking population of only 10%. The decision to declare Kemari as another district without seeking consensus from major stakeholders like the City government, Sindh Assembly and political parties having sizeable electoral strength in Karachi led to a severe backlash as the MQM, the MQM-P, the PTI and the PSP, along with Jamaat-i-Islami, termed the decision arbitrary and reflecting ethnic bias of rural dominated PPP. On August 20, the Sindh cabinet announced that Kemari will be carved out from District West of Karachi and declared it as the city’s seventh district.
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