Burmese people in Pakistan
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 200,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Karachi | |
| Languages | |
| Rohingya · Burmese · Chittagonian · Urdu · English and other Myanmar languages | |
| Religion | |
| Islam · Buddhism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Burmese diaspora |
Pakistan Burmese (Urdu: پاکستانی برمی ) are a Muslim community based in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. They are Rohingya Muslims (Urdu: روہنگیا مسلمان) from Rakhine State in Burma, who have fled their homeland of Arakan State under the Persecution of Muslims citizens by the Burmese junta and Buddhist majority. According to varied Pakistani government sources and the Arakan Historical Society, there are some 200,000 Rohingya refugees residing in Pakistan. All of them have made a perilous journey across Bangladesh and India and have settled in Karachi. The Rohingya Muslim in Karachi have now obtained Pakistani citizenship. A report on human trafficking stated that Burmese people make up fourteen percent of Karachi's undocumented immigrants. Large scale Rohingya migration to Karachi made Karachi one of the largest population centres of Rohingyas in the world after Myanmar. In the recent years, scores of Burmese women seeking employment have entered the country. Different resources cite the number of these women to be in the thousands.
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