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Islamic Jihadthe Police Station was also shot at. Muslims also started attacking the Hindu villages in the outskirt of Delhi,burning them down. These unremitting provocations—in the context of what had transpired since the DirectAction and what was happening to the helpless Hindus (and Sikhs) on the Pakistan side—ended restraint ofthe Hindus of Delhi. They started attacking and murdering Muslims, who, although found armed, wereoutnumbered; their houses were sometimes burned down. Police had recovered from Muslim houses anumber of unlicensed guns, daggers and knives, 154 bombs, forty-five mortars, 1,950 rounds of rifleammunition, thirteen wireless transmitters, a number of hand-grenades, Sten-gun cartridges and chemicals.According to police records, 507 Muslims perished in the violence with seventy-six Hindu deaths; probablyequal numbers went unreported. 579Premeditated ethnic cleansing of Hindus and SikhsThe violence during the Partition forced nearly twenty million people to cross the border: Hindus and Sikhsfrom Pakistan to India and Muslims from India to Pakistan. The Muslim League, it appears, not only wanted aseparate homeland, they also wanted it purely for Muslims, cleansed of the infidels: Hindus and Sikhs. Theviolence they perpetrated during the course of the Partition, it appears, was a premeditated stratagem,carefully orchestrated by the Muslim League, to ethnically cleanse the non-Muslims from Pakistan. OnMuslim League’s incitement of the ethnic-cleansing of non-Muslims, the Times of London wrote, ‘League’sreckless propaganda causes Punjab tragedy.’ 580 The incitement and demagoguery of Jinnah and other topMuslim League leaders, argue Collins and Lapierre, convinced Muslims that ‘in Pakistan, the Land of thePure, Hindu moneylenders, shopkeepers and zamindars (Sikh landlords) would disappear… if Pakistan isours, so too are shops, farms, houses and factories of the Hindus and Sikhs.’ 581 Collins and Lapierre add: ‘Thecentral Post Office in Lahore was flooded with thousands of postcards addressed to the Hindus and Sikhs.They depicted men and women being raped and slaughtered. On the back was the message: ‘This is what ishappening to our Sikh and Hindu brothers and sisters at the hands of Muslims when they take over.’ Thesepostcards were part of a campaign of psychological warfare, conducted by the Muslim League, to createpanic among Sikhs and Hindus.’ 582 An officer sent a letter, dated 5 September 1947, from the LahoreGovernment House to Governor-General Jinnah, read: ‘‘I am telling everyone that I don’t care how the Sikhscross the border, the great thing is to get rid of them as soon as possible. There is still little sign of the300,000 Sikhs in Lyallpur moving, but in the end they too will have to go.’’ 583Whether in Calcutta, Noakhali or the Muslim-dominated Districts of present-day Pakistan, thepolice—dominated by or exclusively made up of Muslims—maintained indifference and even participated inthe vandalism, plunder, arson and killing. It is already noted of how Suhrawardy directed the police in theCalcutta riots. Regarding the abetment of the Bengal Muslim League government and the police in the DirectAction violence, the words of Sher-e-Bangla (Tiger of Bengal) AK Fazlul Huq, 584 the CM of undividedBengal (1937–43) and later briefly of East Pakistan (1954), are worth taking note here. In describing hiseyewitness account of the savagery in an address to the Bengal Legislative Assembly on 19 September 1946,he said: ‘‘It seemed …that some modern Nadir Shah had come upon Calcutta and had given up the city torapine, plunder and pillage. Sir, each time I tried to get in touch with police officers, I was told that I was tocontact the Control Room.’’ His desperate effort to contact the police and government officials wasunsuccessful. Of the government and police inaction, he added: 585579. Ibid, p. 242–85580. Times of London, 19 March 1947581. Collins L & Lapierre D (1975) Freedom at Midnight, Avon, New York, p. 330582. Ibid, p. 249583. Khosla, p. 314584. Fazlul Huq was kicked out of the Muslim League in 1940 for advocating for an undivided India.585. Ibid, p. 307181