ABSTRACT
This chapter will address the issues and problems of the province of Sindh by discussing the background of the people and the system of governance. In present-day Pakistan, Sindh poses the gravest danger to national unity and integration; indeed, the lawlessness and resultant suffering of the people of that region is one of its most tragic realities. More significantly, the problems confronting the province are of an unusual character. As the subsequent section will elaborate, ever since independence, Sindh has been facing a conflict between its indigenous peoples – the Sindhis – on the one hand, and the migrants, particularly the Muhajirs, on the other. In recent years, both Sindhis and Muhajirs have put forward claims of substantial discrimination and persecution by the majority Punjabis, who now dominate the federal government, the bureaucracy and the military.
