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Vol. 4 Num 88 Sat. August 23, 2003  
   
Letters to Editor


The Two-nation Theory


I read the column of Mr. Kuldip Nayar- published in your esteemed daily on August 11on the subject.

The Two-Nation Theory brought the partition of India. No power could stop Mohammad Ali Jinnah on the creation of Pakistan. Although he was offered the first premiership of undivided India not only by the Congress, Mahatma Gandhi, even by Lord Mount Batten, the last Viceroy of India, Mr. Jinnah was uncompromising to his stand. Finally Pakistan was born on Aug 14, 1947.

On Aug 11, 1947 Mr. Jinnah delivered a master piece speech in the Pak Parliament in Karachi "You will find that in the 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 sate."

In this sub-continent Muslims were comparatively more poor and weak. Mr. Jinnah wanted a separate platform enabling them to live together with Hindus on equal footing. Now same situation prevailing in the Western Europe.

West European Nations fought centuries against each other. Now they have separate flags but same currency, no restriction on movement from one place to another place. No restriction on business or in employment. People have all the liberty. Mr. Nayar has correctly narrated that in the Two-nation Theory proposed that the Muslim majority areas would together form Pakistan and rest would be India. What happened afterwards is India conquered Hyderabad the biggest state on Sept 11,1948, the day Mohd Ali Jinnah died. India conquered Junagarh and sent her troops to Kashmir, the Muslim majority state.

UNO brought a resolution to hold plebiscite in Kashmir. India refused to honour her own commitment as soon as Indian soldiers were settled in Kashmir. Thereafter arms race continued.

As a result, this sub-continent today has proportionately more illiterate and half-fed people than what it had in 1947, plus riot, killings, rapes and what not.

We could not build what Western Europe did. We miserably failed to understand what the big powers want. They are here for their own interest, own benefit; they have no ethics, and they force us to forget our ethics.

If Mr. Nayar feels that Mr. Jinnah's Aug 11speech has a correct sense of direction for Hindu-Muslim unity then I must say still there is a time for India to honour her own commitment on plebiscite issue in Kashmir, the core issue, and that may bring long lasting peace and harmony in the sub-continent.