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[The Pakistan Policy Blog] Like a Broken Record: Selig Harrison on Ethnic Discord in Pakistan: The reality is that Pakistan’s elite is more ethnically representative than Harrison allows.  There is a strong national presence of Pathans in the military, Urdu-speaking muhajirs in the bureacracy, Memons in commerce, and Sindhi political elites (Bhuttos, Legharis, Soomros).  The average Pakistani, irrespective of ethnicity, remains poor, underserved, and disenfranchsized.  Yes, allocation of development funds have tilted toward Punjab, but at the same time, the political elite in Balochistan and Sindh have done a poorer job at serving their constituencies.  Baloch sardars have suppressed their pions; the gas concessions they receive don’t trickle down to their peasants–Pakistan’s least educated and most underserved.  Similarly, elites from Sindh, including those from Larkana, have done little toward improving the lot of their peasantry.  After all, if their pions become educated and leave the plantation, who’ll tend to the fields?  Who will elect them to the National Assembly en masse?  And so while ethnic nationalism in Pakistan is a product of real divisions and inequity, it is also a tool leveraged by one faction of elites to maximally extract concessions (power, wealth) from another faction of elites–all for personal gain. 

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