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When I look at South-East Asian Muslim majority countries like Indonesia and Malyasia, I don't see as much communality as I find in the Indo-Bangladesh-Pakistan subcontinent. I think that - this must be due to the birth-defect of Pakistan. Pakistan was created based on communality, and the very existence of this country depended on the communality. Unfortunately, Bangladeshis had to inherit that creed during the Pakistani regime. It will take a long time to get rid of that mindset. I know younger generations in Bangladesh are much more secular than their parents; that's a good thing.
But, for Pakistan there is no light in the horizon; it's still dwelling in the darkness. I hope Allama Mashriqi's vision will give tem the much needed light.
Jiten Roy
--- On Wed, 4/11/12, manz195 <manz195@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: manz195 <manz195@yahoo.com>
Subject: [mukto-mona] Allama "Mashriqi's role eulogized"
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Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 2:00 PM
(Pakistan Observer, a daily from Islamabad, dated April 09, 2012. Scholar & historian Nasim Yousaf views published)
Mashriqi's role eulogized
Nazir Siyal
Larkana—Khaksar Tehreek, Chief Allama Mashriqi played a major role in bringing freedom to the Indian of sub-continent and served his nation with the utmost devotion and in return sought no monetary gains or public office.
While expressing his views by an intellectual scholar and historian Nasim Yousaf has warned the people of sub-continent that they should learn the lessons from the mistakes of the past. He also repeated the words of Allama Mashriqi, ascertained the hidden truth about the indo-pak history. He stressed the people of sub-continent that remember, history is unforgiving to nations that mutilate their past.
He urged that wake-up and realizes why India was divided. Pakistan and India's history is written under the influence of the All-India Muslim League and the Indian National Congress respectively; it is nothing but a pack of utter lies he told.
The All-India Muslim League's slogans of Hindu domination and Islam in danger in a united India were not based in reality he said, added the Two-Nation Theory was publicized to spread communalism and to seek political agendas. Many people might be surprised to hear that the Muslim League's victory in the 1946 elections was on the crutches of the powerful Government bureaucracy he told.
He further said those of you who have not read history should know that partition brought miseries that are rarely seen in history and millions of innocent Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs were brutally slaughtered. My heart bleeds when I think of the suffering of helpless individuals and the females who, at the time of the partition of India, were ruthlessly raped he expressed.
They became victims of the confrontational and selfish politics of the All-India Muslim League and Indian National Congress. It is unfortunate that a holocaust of this magnitude continues to be dismissed for political reasons he said.
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