Many who are in seventies and eighties feel nostalgic when articles such as mentioned above and written by Ms Zubeida Mustafa are read by them. I am in seventies and have witnessed the founding of our motherland, Pakistan, and also the splitting thereof in 1971 with anguish and anger due to injudicious policies of martial law governments. I am, as mentioned in Ms. Mustafa’s article, also chronicling “as I have lived” under the title of “A Common Man’s Auto-biography” enlisting momentous developments preceding and following the Partition of Indo-Pak sub-continent. We owe it to our posterity to remind them of the supreme sacrifices made in the process of the movement for the creation of our homeland, now being frittered away in mis-governance, fratricide in the name of religion and moral depravity. I fully agree with the views of Ms. Mustafa when she refers to writing memoirs: “That is how we learnt how they lived a century ago”. The teething problems in the making of our country were encountered by all denominations of Muslim steadfastly without grumbling for inflation or any other economic woes. There was no ethnic discord or religious discrimination or economic exploitation in the early days till the Military regime was foisted to abort the process of democratization of the country. What we sowed we would reap. The miscarriage of state-craft after the imposition of military government, unitary state in the form of One Unit, shifting of capital, parity to East Pakistan and successive Martial Law regimes stunted the democratic flowering of our homeland. I would advise “the old guard” still surviving to document the incipient days when the movement for Pakistan was being waged in India with Aligarh University providing ammunition (Per Quaid’s word) and Muslim making physical and mental sacrifices as they migrated from the minority provinces to Pakistan in utter disregard of deprivation of assets left behind. How Pakistanis irrespective of any past baggage or ethnicity or sectarian prejudices served the country with scarce resources but with dedication, commitment and self-effacing endeavuors…….and without grumbling. (Abdul Saeed Khan Ghori) Senior Advocate, Supreme court of Pakistan. Mobile No. 0333-2135612
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:42:19 +0000
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