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Montgomery has been named Sahiwal, and Lyallpur, Faisalabad to restore the
Punjabis’ self-respect.
This is an impossible state of affairs. The refugees must rediscover their roots in
Krishna and Kabir, and behave themselves --- if they want to live in Sindh.
As for the Punjabis in Pakistan, the less said the better. A popular saying in
Sindh is that one Punjabi is equal to two men and two Punjabis are much too
many. They treat all Pakistan as their colony. Pakistan has become Punjabistan.
They control the politics and the civil and military services. They are taking over
more and more land, industry and trade in Pakistan. The British seem to have
partitioned India to give the Punjabi Muslims all this territory for their
exploitation, in appreciation of their services in the two World Wars. To make
this exploitation easier, in 1954 they forced the merger of all the four provinces
into “One Unit”. Since the premiers of these provinces would not agree, they
were all dismissed.
As the hapless Sindhi officers were being transported en masse to Lahore, the
scene reminded everybody of the Jews being taken in captivity to Babylon after
the fall of Jerusalem.
At the time of the formation of One Unit, Sindh had a credit of 33 crore rupees ---
and Punjab a debit of 100 crore rupees. All these finances were merged --- and
Sindh was thus robbed of its surpluses.
More than ten years after Partition, the constitution of Pakistan was at last ready.
All that remained was the Governor General’s signature. But at this stage, this
Punjabi gentleman, Ghulam Mohammed, dissolved the Constituent Assembly
and installed a Bengali puppet, Mohammed Ali Bogra --- then doing duty as
ambassador in Washington --- as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
The dissolution of the Consembly was challenged in the Sindh High Court,
which pronounced it unconstitutional. But the Federal Court, controlled by the
Punjabis, upheld the dissolution.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a Sindhi, but he was also a puppet of Punjab. He came
up by flattering Iskander Mirza and Ayub Khan. He organized lavish shikar
parties for them on his vast estate. He compared Ayub to Lincoln and Lenin and
said that if Shah Abdul Latif, the great Sindhi poet, were alive, he would have
surely garlanded him. When Bhutto came to power, he became a terror. He
branded some of his critics with red-hot irons. He took out others in procession,
with their faces painted black. He got a district and sessions judge arrested
without warrant. When the Sindh Assembly declared Sindhi as the sole official
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