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kill old Arab goddesses Manaat and Laat. They run between two hills, Marru
and Safaa, because that is what Ibrahim’s slave-girl Hajran did in search of water
when she was about to deliver a baby. These are primitive Arab customs which
have nothing to do with Islam. The water of the Indus is not less holy than that of
the Arab well of Zam Zam.
The people here want to be buried in Arabia for a favourable position before
Allah on the Day of judgement. They do not know that some time after burial,
the Arabs take out their bodies and throw them into a cave. What kind of schools
and colleges can be established by people who have been burning libraries? Can
the people, who have been warring on music and dancing, ever do justice to
radio and television?
Pakistan is a denial of Indian geography and history. It goes against the grain of
Ashoka and Akbar. In any case, if the Arabs who speak the same language and
swear by the same Allah can have separate states, why cannot the Sindhis, the
Punjabis, the Baluchis and the Pakhtoons have separate, sovereign states of their
own? To keep them together against their wishes is to give them a common
funeral.
Pakistan is a sinful state, founded on the ashes of all sound principles. It is a
thieves’ kitchen. It is led by kafan-chors (people who would steal even coffins).
Even as a “bhangi” (scavenger) does not become “great” by being called mahtar,
this randi-khana [house of (political) prostitution] does not become “holy” by
just being named “Pakistan”. The Sindhis do not want to have anything to do
with such a state.
Next the “refugees”. They have come to Pakistan not because they could not live
in India. Crores of Muslims are living in India in peace and with honour. In UP,
the Muslims were 13 per cent of the population but they had 45 per cent of the
jobs. And yet they have come away in large numbers. They are adventurers, who
want even more here than they had in lndia. The Hindus left vast properties in
Sindh; all these have gone to the refugees. Even the Hindu properties sold to
Sindhi Muslims were declared “evacuee property” and handed over to refugees.
Many of these refugees had filed false claims; but all these were certified by their
fellow-refugees manning the evacuee property and rehabilitation departments.
It was these refugees who had murdered and looted the Hyderabad Hindus on
26 December, 1947 and the Karachi Hindus on 6 January, 1948. When Premier
Khuhro proceeded against the rioters, the refugee supremo, Liaqat Ali Khan,
turned against him.
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