After the military takeover in 1999 by Pervez Musharraf, the muhajirs backed Pervez Musharraf strongly till his resignation in 2008. During Musharraf's era, many muhajirs lent their support to Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal and this caused a decline in the vote banks of other parties especially the MQM, which in 2002 Pakistani general election won 13 NA seats and 15% of the total vote in Sindh. But after Musharraf's fall from power, MQM again started to dominate Muhajir politics, and this became apparent when MQM swept 2008 Pakistani general election and 2013 Pakistani general election in Karachi and won 19 NA seats and 18 NA seats respectively. MQM cotinued to dominate the political scene of Karachi and Hyderabad until 2016 when it broke up into four factions and collapsed.
