By Sohail Parwaz
Jinnah’s aim was to get more rights for
Muslims. While giving his 14 points Jinnah stated that it was the “parting of
ways” and that he did not want and would not have anything to do with the
Indian National Congress in the future. The keen observers and seasoned
analysts of that era drew impartial comparison between Mr. Jinnah’s fourteen
points and Nehru’s report of 1928 and considered them as a political gap
between the Muslims and the Hindus in India. Those who are losing their breath
to prove Mr. Jinnah as a secular should bother themselves to study the history
because, when Muhammad Ali Jinnah presented his fourteen points, the aim behind
these points was to safeguard the political rights of Muslims through a
constitutional reform plan. The seven out of fourteen points of Quaid-e-Azam
were directly in support of constitutional reforms and indirectly were
supportive to the Muslims’ interest, while five points were unswervingly
insisting for the Muslim rights.
One
fails to understand that if Mr. Jinnah had long for secular stance and motives
then why on earth (and in the
Subcontinent) the Hindus disregarded them and why Mr. Nehru hatefully called
them as Jinnah’s “14 ridiculous points”? Anyone can always take a look on those
particular and forceful five points those were supporting the Muslim interests.
Those five points were; In the Central Legislature, Muslim representation
shall not be less than one third, secondly, any territorial distribution that
might at any time be necessary shall not in any way affect the Muslim majority,
thirdly, provision should be made in the constitution giving Muslims an
adequate share, along with the other Indians, in all the services of the state
and in local self-governing bodies having due regard to the requirements of
efficiency, fourthly, the constitution should embody adequate safeguards for
the protection of Muslim culture and for the protection and promotion of Muslim
education, language, religion, personal laws and Muslim charitable institutions
and for their due share in the grants-in-aid given by the state and by local
self-governing bodies and lastly, no cabinet, either central or provincial, should
be formed without there being a proportion of at least one-third Muslim
ministers.
This
all premise has been made just to let people know that what is going around
them in the beloved motherland in the name of politics, democracy and the
freedom of speech. Since last few years a deliberate campaign has been launched
to distort the historic facts about the creation of Pakistan. Every now and
then, a new issue is purposely raised; sometime about the State’s religion and
at other occasion doubts about the integrity and loyalty of the Quaid’s
colleagues. Sometimes ago a seasoned politician of Shehla Raza’s stature also
showed ignorance regarding the independence movement. The lady happens to be a
member of Sindh assembly; the august house of a province that played a great
role in the war of independence. The painful thing is that the deliberate
maligning campaign has now extended to the social media hangouts. There is clip
available on video channels where idiot, like late Hakim Ali Zardari father of
Asif Ali Zardari used derogatory remarks for late Quaid e Azam.
Sindh
was an important center of accomplishments during the Khilafat Movement. The
Hijrat Tehrik also started in
Sindh, when many Sindhi Muslims sold their properties and migrated to
Afghanistan. This was the contribution of Sindhis for Islam and Pakistan and
now it’s painful to admit that in the same very Sindh anti state propaganda is
nurturing and people are brain washed that the very slogan of
Pakistan movement “Pakistan Ka Matlab Kia? La
ilahaa illAllah” was not associated
with Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and was never a part of the drive and to
support their point in a Muslim State closed holiday is announced on a Hindu
festival in the same very Sindh province.
Agreed
that the Quaid assured the minorities the full religious liberties as it should
be in any Islamic state but he never talked of allowing them to extend their
stick to a point from where the ‘Muslim Nose’ started. Hence, one fails to
understands that how could he be termed as a leader with the secular state?
Audio of Quaid-e-Azam’s historical speech in Urdu is very much on the record
where he moved the crowd when said while mincing the words that, “Humaen Pakistan ko qayim
rakhnay kay leaye abhi aur qurbani dayni ho gee. Muslmaan museebat maen
ghabraya nahi kerta”.
This
misleading propaganda is actively done by a political party which has already
become a comical circus, hence, is in a nosedive due to their out of time
immature acts like wasting money on the events similar to Sindh festival and
amidst this the party’s indifference to hunger and poverty of the inopportune
Sindhis of draughty Tharparker has added salt to the injuries. When a large
number of starved children were dying due to lack of food and water, PPP was
busy with the festivals and sumptuous luncheons.
Its high time that someone should put a ruthless stop at this
muck and discourage this image tarnishing and history fabricating campaign,
forthwith. Sindh is the other name of Pakistan and lets not allow the idiots to
take this honour from Sindh.
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