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Kathmandu Saturday July 01, 2000 Ahsad 17, 2057.
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Concocted advice
In an article titled "ISI Gameplan and
Nepal-India ties" published in the June 27 issue of your esteemed newspaper, Mr
Prakash A Raj has concocted an alleged advice given by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah to
the Muslims of East Bengal to migrate to Assam before the partition.
I would like to point out that Mr Raj has not
only distorted facts and history but also M Jinnah’s personality. Quaid-e-Azam
Muhammad Ali Jinnah never incited any individual or group of people to migrate. His
personality and political thought was borne in the speech he delivered to the Constituent
Assembly of Pakistan on August 11, 1947, when he said "in course of time Hindus would
cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense,
because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as
citizens of the state."
M Jamshaid Iftikhar
Deputy Chief of Mission
Embassy of Pakistan |
