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The common refrain you often hear from many Pakistani is "Pakistan ka matlab kya - La ilaha IllAllah" which of course suggests a country was set up for Islam. Nothing more could be further from the truth. I mostly go after busting myths created by Indian nationalists but I think it's time I had look at Pakistan also. I want to look at two so called historical facts as listed beloew;-
(1) Pakistan ka matlab kya - La ilaha IllAllah - Implying that Pakistan was made for Islam.
(2) Jinnah had dream of Pakistan and he worked toward that until he made it a reality.
The reality is if Pakistan was concieved by anybody that credit goes to Sir Allama Iqbal and if any is left over to Rehmat Ali for coming up with the name "Pakistan" abbreviated from the five Muslim dominant regions of South Asia. In 1930 Presidential Address he said:-
[3b] Personally, I would go farther than the demands embodied in it. I would like to see the Punjab, Afghania (North-West Frontier Province), Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.
Source > Presidential Address, annual session of the All-India MuslimLeague, Allahabad, December 1930, by Sir Muhammad Iqbal
[1] At this solemn hour in the history of India, when British and Indian delegates are laying the foundations of a Federal Constitution for that Sub-continent, we address this appeal to you, in the name of our common heritage, and on behalf of our thirty million Muslim brethern who live in PAKISTAN by which we mean the five Northern units of India viz: Punjab, North-West Frontier Province (Afghan Province), Kashmir, Sind, and Baluchistan. And we ask for your sympathy and support in our grim and fateful struggle against political crucifixion and national annihilation.
Source > Now or Never, by Chaudhary Rahmat Ali, 1933
It was these two men who had a end goal that was Pakistan as exists today. Jinnah never had end goal that involved creation of Pakistan as exists today. Jinnah was working toward parity. That is Jinnah wanted to set up consititutional structures that would end up creating balance within post British India and would prevent any one group dominating the others. The Pakistan idea was used by Jinnah as a stick to force through a constitutional framework that would in fact create balance between differant groups in British India.
I know this idea that Jinnah was working toward parity and not Pakistan must be like apostasy to some have read history from infant style books but this is fact. The Pakistan idea was used as a convenient blackmailing tool in negotiations but it did not represent Jinnah's target destination. Jinnah was a realist and constitutionalist who used his skills to try to garner a set up within India that would safegaurd Muslims. It was idealists like Sir Allama and Rehmat who dreamed of Pakistan.
This can be proven most by that fact that as late as 1946 only 12 months before Pakistan came into being Jinnah accepted the Cabinet Mission Plan of 16 May.
Promulgated on 16 May 1946, the plan to create a united dominion of India as a loose confederation of provinces came to be known by the date of its announcement:
Jinnah had in effect agreed to loose Union of India which would have had been composed of all the provinces of British India grouped in three distinct blocks with Union of India. The military, communication, foreign affairs would have been centra delegated to New Delhi with other functions with provinces and for any constitutional change the three blocks would have carried equal weight preventing any domination of minority groups. Below is the Union of India Jinnah agreed to to in 1946.
Furthermore the Cabinet Mission noted that -
7. We therefore considered whether a smaller sovereign Pakistan confined to the Muslim majority areas alone might be a possible basis of compromise. Such a Pakistan is regarded by the Muslim League as quite impracticable because it would entail the exclusion from Pakistan of (a) the whole of the Ambala and Jullundur Divisions in the Punjab; (b) the whole of Assam except the district of Sylhet: and (c) a large part of Western Bengal,
Source > Indian Independence: Transfer of Power Source 2
After the Cabinet Mission Plan was proposed it is fact that Jinnah agreed to it. Had it been left with what was agreed by Jinnah in 1946 there would no Pakistan and those who cry the fraud "Pakistan ka matlab kya - La ilaha IllAllah" would have to find something else to shout.
However only 12 months later. That is just one year after Jinnah agreed to the Cabinet Mission Plan 1946 one man stood firm and said "NO". That was the great man called Nehru. Abul Kalam Azad said of Nehru's refusal "one of those unfortunate events that changed the course of history". So ladies and gents I put to you plainly that it was the momentous "No" of Nehru when Jinnah had said "Yes" to the Cabinet Mission plan in 1946 that led to creation of Pakistan just one year later. Nehru's actions left no other trajectory for Jinnah. Nehru locked the only door leading to anything other than Pakistan. The only door left open by Nehru was Pakistan.
So I want everybody to join in me in the chorus of "Pakistan ka matlab kya - Nehru Jee".* In fact I suggest a statue of Nehru to be unveiled next to Minar e Pakistan as acknowledging that man who through his intansigence forced Jinnah to go for Pakistan.
Source > Understanding Partition: India Sundered, Muslims Fragmented - Yuvraj Krishan - Google Books
(1) Pakistan ka matlab kya - La ilaha IllAllah - Implying that Pakistan was made for Islam.
(2) Jinnah had dream of Pakistan and he worked toward that until he made it a reality.
The reality is if Pakistan was concieved by anybody that credit goes to Sir Allama Iqbal and if any is left over to Rehmat Ali for coming up with the name "Pakistan" abbreviated from the five Muslim dominant regions of South Asia. In 1930 Presidential Address he said:-
[3b] Personally, I would go farther than the demands embodied in it. I would like to see the Punjab, Afghania (North-West Frontier Province), Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.
Source > Presidential Address, annual session of the All-India MuslimLeague, Allahabad, December 1930, by Sir Muhammad Iqbal
[1] At this solemn hour in the history of India, when British and Indian delegates are laying the foundations of a Federal Constitution for that Sub-continent, we address this appeal to you, in the name of our common heritage, and on behalf of our thirty million Muslim brethern who live in PAKISTAN by which we mean the five Northern units of India viz: Punjab, North-West Frontier Province (Afghan Province), Kashmir, Sind, and Baluchistan. And we ask for your sympathy and support in our grim and fateful struggle against political crucifixion and national annihilation.
Source > Now or Never, by Chaudhary Rahmat Ali, 1933
It was these two men who had a end goal that was Pakistan as exists today. Jinnah never had end goal that involved creation of Pakistan as exists today. Jinnah was working toward parity. That is Jinnah wanted to set up consititutional structures that would end up creating balance within post British India and would prevent any one group dominating the others. The Pakistan idea was used by Jinnah as a stick to force through a constitutional framework that would in fact create balance between differant groups in British India.
I know this idea that Jinnah was working toward parity and not Pakistan must be like apostasy to some have read history from infant style books but this is fact. The Pakistan idea was used as a convenient blackmailing tool in negotiations but it did not represent Jinnah's target destination. Jinnah was a realist and constitutionalist who used his skills to try to garner a set up within India that would safegaurd Muslims. It was idealists like Sir Allama and Rehmat who dreamed of Pakistan.
This can be proven most by that fact that as late as 1946 only 12 months before Pakistan came into being Jinnah accepted the Cabinet Mission Plan of 16 May.
Promulgated on 16 May 1946, the plan to create a united dominion of India as a loose confederation of provinces came to be known by the date of its announcement:
- A united Dominion of India would be given independence.
- Muslim-majority provinces would be grouped -
- Sind, Punjab,Baluchistan and North-West Frontier Province would form group one, and
- Hindu-majority provinces in central and southern India would form group two.
- Bengal and Assam would form group three.
- The Central government, stationed in Delhi, would be empowered to handle nationwide affairs, such as defense, currency, and diplomacy, while the rest of powers and responsibility would belong to the provinces, coordinated by groups.
Jinnah had in effect agreed to loose Union of India which would have had been composed of all the provinces of British India grouped in three distinct blocks with Union of India. The military, communication, foreign affairs would have been centra delegated to New Delhi with other functions with provinces and for any constitutional change the three blocks would have carried equal weight preventing any domination of minority groups. Below is the Union of India Jinnah agreed to to in 1946.
Furthermore the Cabinet Mission noted that -
7. We therefore considered whether a smaller sovereign Pakistan confined to the Muslim majority areas alone might be a possible basis of compromise. Such a Pakistan is regarded by the Muslim League as quite impracticable because it would entail the exclusion from Pakistan of (a) the whole of the Ambala and Jullundur Divisions in the Punjab; (b) the whole of Assam except the district of Sylhet: and (c) a large part of Western Bengal,
Source > Indian Independence: Transfer of Power Source 2
After the Cabinet Mission Plan was proposed it is fact that Jinnah agreed to it. Had it been left with what was agreed by Jinnah in 1946 there would no Pakistan and those who cry the fraud "Pakistan ka matlab kya - La ilaha IllAllah" would have to find something else to shout.
However only 12 months later. That is just one year after Jinnah agreed to the Cabinet Mission Plan 1946 one man stood firm and said "NO". That was the great man called Nehru. Abul Kalam Azad said of Nehru's refusal "one of those unfortunate events that changed the course of history". So ladies and gents I put to you plainly that it was the momentous "No" of Nehru when Jinnah had said "Yes" to the Cabinet Mission plan in 1946 that led to creation of Pakistan just one year later. Nehru's actions left no other trajectory for Jinnah. Nehru locked the only door leading to anything other than Pakistan. The only door left open by Nehru was Pakistan.
So I want everybody to join in me in the chorus of "Pakistan ka matlab kya - Nehru Jee".* In fact I suggest a statue of Nehru to be unveiled next to Minar e Pakistan as acknowledging that man who through his intansigence forced Jinnah to go for Pakistan.
Source > Understanding Partition: India Sundered, Muslims Fragmented - Yuvraj Krishan - Google Books
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