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   ocr: Punjabis account for 56% of the population; Sindhis, Pathans and Baluch are also prominent. "Mohajirs" Urdu-spealdng immigrants from India at the time of partition - predominate in Karichi and Hyderabad, Sind's main urban centers. Punjabi dominance ofthe army and bureaucracy, and the central government's distance from the smaller provinces, has spawned many separatist and autonomy movements. Pathans have trequently threatened to establish a. homeland with ethnic lanstolk over the border in Atghanistan. Tensions between the Baluch and Pathan refugees from Atghanistan sporadically erupt into vio ...