Mohajirs are refugeed immigrants who came to Pakistan from India in the wake of the violence that followed the independence of Pakistan in 1947. The alleged name to be given to the proposed breakaway state was "Jinnahpur", named after Mohammed Ali Jinnah. In 1992, the Pakistani military claimed it had found maps of the proposed Jinnahpur state in the offices of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement, despite the party's strong denial of the authenticity of the maps. Despite the party's strong commitment to the Pakistani state, at that time government of Nawaz Sharif chose to use it as the basis for the military operation against the MQM, known as Operation Clean-up.However, many residents of Karachi have heard MQM workers supporting India and abusing Pakistan. In August 2009, two senior military officers at the time of the operation claimed that the maps had been fabricated. According to them the Jinnahpur maps were false allegations and an attempt to divide the nation. Their stance was immediately challenged by Major Nadeem Dar, then an ISI officer, who claimed to have recovered maps and related documents personally after raiding MQM headquarter and sent them to Major Haroon and Major Nadeem
The Muhajir Sooba is a political movement which seeks to represent the Muhajir people of Sindh. This concept floated as a political bargaining tool by the leader of Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Altaf Hussain for the creation of a Muhajir province for the Muhajir-majority areas of Sindh, which would be independent from Sindh government. The political deprivations of MQM became the major causes leading towards the demand of a separate province. Mahajir people are held back not giving government jobs or any part on policy making. Most of the mahajir areas are ignored for any development, infrastructure. Various other names have been suggested by Altaf Hussain to refer to proposed new province such as Sindh 1 and Sindh 2. The Pakistan Peoples Party, as well as PTI leader Imran Khan and other major political parties of Pakistan, opposed the creation of a separate province.
