Sentence examples for muhajir from inspiring English sources

Followers of the MQM, a party dedicated to Karachi's Urdu-speaking muhajir community, were in the thick of the killing.

(The rise of militant ethnic politics in Sindh that began in the 1980s notably the clashes between native Sindhis and organized members of the muhajir community likely can be traced to that decision).

Karachi, though in Sindh, is predominantly an Urdu-speaking city settled by Punjabis and muhajir, immigrants from India who arrived in Pakistan after partition of the subcontinent in 1947.

The Sindhi population feared that their language and culture would be overrun by the language and culture of the predominantly Urdu-speaking muhajir community, and that fear led to what became known as the language riots of 1972 and to the national government's decision to grant special status to the Sindhi language.

Musharraf and many of his newly appointed senior aides are muhajir — immigrants who fled to Pakistan from India after Partition, in 1947 — but they are in charge of an Army that traditionally has been dominated by officers from the Punjab region.

Shahzad, whose parents migrated from India after Partition, making him a muhajir — Urdu for "immigrant" — was an affable outsider within Pakistan's journalistic circles.

But Mr al-Muhajir cannot be tried by one of these, because they can only be used for non-Americans.

The suspect, an American citizen, Abdullah al-Muhajir, had been detained in May; he was declared an enemy combatant and sent to an American naval base.

And under what legal authority precisely is the alleged al-Qaeda bomber being held?After Mr al-Muhajir was arrested on May 8th in Chicago, he seems to have been brought before a federal judge and given a lawyer as a "material witness" to a grand jury investigation into the September 11th attacks.

Keeping nuclear, chemical and germ weapons out of their hands has therefore been a priority.The arrest of Abdullah al-Muhajir on suspicion of plotting to build and set off in America a radiological device a "dirty bomb" that uses radioactive materials packed around a conventional explosive core is an indication of how hard that fight will be.Why a radiological bomb?

Hours after it was announced on June 10th that Abdullah al-Muhajir had been transferred to military custody, the president eloquently declared that the "rule of law" and "limits on the power of the state", were "non-negotiable demands of human dignity" in America's battle against terrorists.