Pakistan - News and Discussion 6

[acharya]

Rasheed Khan

Who are you? If you had not written your name I would have thought you are a Hindu. From what you say, I hope thoughtlessly, you are acting like an Indian agent because you are disseminating Indian propaganda.

Dr Momin Chowdhury of East Pakistan has published a book exposing how 30,000 became 3 million. Until Sheikh Mujib came to London after being freed from Jail in West Pakistan, where he was under trial for treachery (Agartalla Conspiracy), the numbers killed in East Pakistan, as stated in the press, was 30,000. Even 30,000 is not a small number and it has since been proved to be exaggerated but it did not suit the hyperbole addict Sheikh Mujib. So his aides increased the figure to 3 lakhs. Uneducated demagogue as was, he did not know that 3 million was ten times 3 lakhs. When he spoke to the press in London in his unintelligible English he said ‘3 million’. How can an India sponsored traitor be wrong? So, all books and writers in India quote him as the authority for that figure and it has remained stuck at 3 million.

Since Kerbala, war between Muslims – on whatever pretext – has been considered treacherous. But the war in Kashmir waged by the Mujahideen against Indian occupation is not a civil war. It is a legitimate war with a clear objective – liberation. It has a legitimate cause – India going back on its agreement to hold a plebiscite. The only civil war in Kashmir is between civilians – Hindus and their Muslim collaborators on the one side and true leaders of the people represented by Syed Ali Geelani and the APHC. As I have said before, political disagreement on the best way forward is the hallmark of democracy. But when resistance begin the fight against occupation, they need and deserve the support of the entire nation. That applies as much to Pakistan as to Jammu and Kashmir. After Jihad in Kashmir began, its detractors are traitors, nothing else. That is why I consider that the IKA and UKPNP etc – all the detractors of Jihad in Jammu and Kashmir – traitors who should be treated as such.

Brigadier ® Usman Khalid
Director London Institute of South Asia
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