Burmee Colony

The Burmee Colony (often referred to as Burmi Colony, Burma Colony^[1][2]) (Urdu: برمی کالونی) () is one of the neighbourhoods of Landhi Subdivisions in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.^[3][4][5]

Burmee Colony برمی کالونی
Neighbourhood
Country	Pakistan
Province	Sindh
City	Karachi
Town	Landhi Town

Burmee Colony is a Rohingya-majority neighbourhood in Karachi. Burmee Colony ("Burma Colony" locality) is one of the two main Rohingya settlements in Karachi.^[6] The other one is Arkanabad in Karachi.^[2][7][1] Arkanabad is named after Rakhine State, Myanmar (also known as Arakan, Burma)^[8]

Rohingya Muslims (Urdu: روہنگیا مسلمان), an ethnic group native to Rakhine State, Myanmar (also known as Arakan, Burma), who have fled their homeland because of the persecution of Muslims by the Burmese government and Buddhist majority.^[8]

Population

According to community leaders and social scientists, there are over 1.6 million Bengalis and up to 400,000 Rohingyas living in Karachi.^[9]

Demography

There are several ethnic groups residing in this colony including Urdu-speaking people, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, Memons, Bohras, Ismailis and Christians.^[3][4][5]

Rohingya/Burmese Muslims

Hundreds of thousands over the past several years Rohingya Muslims (often referred to as Burmese) have made Karachi their home.^[6][10]

This neighborhood is named after the Muslim Rohingyas refugees who hail from Myanmar (formerly Burma).^[3][4][5]

Large scale Rohingya migration to Karachi made Karachi one of the largest population centres of Rohingyas in the world after Myanmar.^[11]

According to community leaders and social scientists, there are over 1.6 million Bengalis and up to 400,000 Rohingyas living in Karachi, which is the highest number after Myanmar and now Bangladesh.^[9][6]

See also

• Rohingya people in Pakistan

References

1. Agency, Anadolu (2019-08-25). "Karachi's Rohingyas strive for success instead of identity". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
2. "Rohingya Muslims in Pakistan decry global silence". The Express Tribune. 2020-08-23. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
3. Landhi Town - Government of Karachi Archived February 19, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
4. Hasan, Shazia (2017-09-16). "Rohingyas of Karachi struggle to deal with identity crisis". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
5. https://www.ecp.gov.pk/Documents/Delimitation2013/Sindh%20Province.PDF ^{[bare URL PDF] [dead link]}
6. "Rohingya in Karachi: Striving for success". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
7. "Rohingya in Karachi: Striving for success". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
8. Flood, Derek Henry (12 May 2008). "From South to South: Refugees as Migrants: The Rohingya in Pakistan". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
9. Rehman, Zia Ur (9 August 2015). "Bengali and Rohingya leaders gearing up for LG polls". thenews.com.pk. Karachi. Archived from the original on 14 August 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
10. Agency, Anadolu (2019-08-25). "Karachi's Rohingyas strive for success instead of identity". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
11. Rehman, Zia Ur (23 February 2015). "Identity issue haunts Karachi's Rohingya population". Dawn. Retrieved 26 December 2016. Their large-scale migration had made Karachi one of the largest Rohingya population centres outside Myanmar but afterwards the situation started turning against them.

External links

• Karachi Website Archived 2002-03-25 at the Wayback Machine.