Partition of Pakistan and Hindustan.

Partition of Pakistan and Hindustan.


Due to partition of Two countries, there are hardly any minorities left in West Pakistan, and already five million inhabitants, including Buddhists and Christians have been forced out of East Pakistan. Discrimination is excersied against minorities in employment, business and rent remittances as a matter of policy, and their immovable properties are requisitioned or acquired by force. They are also subjected to a systematic and discriminatory denial in passport and visa facilities.

No member of a minority can hold the highest office in Pakistan under its present constitution. No Hindu has held any portfolio in the Central Government during the past years, much less responsible appointments in the Police or defence services. No Hindu has held the office of a Chief Justice or a Judge or similar other positions. . Yet there are some eight to Ten million Hindus in Pakistan.

The two nation theory is applied in practice with a vengeance. In other words minorities are suspect. The vicious theory is also being applied to reduce the population of East Pakistan to silence its leaders claim for a special position in Pakistan based on its larger population.

A minority journal “Amar Desh” of East Pakistan in its issue of 3rd September 1964 commented with despair:

If 80 percent people of any country tell the remaining 20 percent that they are a separate nation and they have no ideological or philosophical affinity with them, what is left for the minority but to accept it and organize itself seperayely ? After living together for several years, to-day it is being discovered a new that Hindus and Muslims are separate and under no circumstances can they be identified each other. After the establishment of Pakistan , the minority of community had demanded to be known simply as Pakistan citizens and had wanted only citizenship, constitutional rights and National integration. It has supported joint elections even at its own cost. But today it has become clear that it is impossible to build up a unified nation in Pakistan.

This would suggest that only a Muslim can be a National of Pakistan. Some of them are pushed into Assam, and also to Burma and when evicted by the Government concerned are dubbed as Indian Nationals. The Indian census figures show that they there was overall increase in the percentage of Muslims population in India. Not only could there be no question of Muslims leaving India. Muslims from Pakistan had infact been infiltrating into the surrounding Indian States of West Bengal, Assam and Tirpura in large numbers.


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Nehru-Liaquat Agreement.

Nehru-Liaquat Agreement.

THE Nehru-Liaquat agreement on 8th April 1950 made an important provision about minorities in Pakistan and Hindustan. Article ‘A’ of the Agreement stated as under:-

The Government of India and Pakistan solemnly agree that each shall ensure to the minorities throughout its territory complete equality of citizenship, irrespective of religion, a full sense of security in respect of live, culture, property and personal honour, freedom of movement within each country and freedom of occupation, speech and worship, subject to law and morality. Members of the minority shall have equal opportunity with members of majority community to participate in the public life of the country. Both Governments declare there rights to be fundamental and undertake to enforce them effectively.

The prime Minister of India has drawn attention to the effect that these rights are guaranteed to all minorities in India by its constitution. The Prime Minister of Pakistan has pointed out that similar provision exists in the Objectives Resolution adopted by
The constituent Assembly of Pakistan.

No one can pretend that in India there are no regrettable communal incidents since the Agreement was signed. What can be claimed is that, in spite of poisonous propaganda by the Muslim League prior to the partition and by Pakistan after it. The Government of India and the state governments have tried their best to adhere to the principle and purposes of secular democracy. The policy has been acclaimed by many independent
Authorities including several Islamic states.

In Pakistan on the other hand, the treatment of minorities leaves them as only second-class citizens, serving as targets for periodic, officially stimulated mass attacks on their life, honour and property. Thousands of communal incidents have taken place in the two wings of Pakistan on most of which Government of India and the state Governments concerned have had to lodge protests with Pakistan authorities though in vain.

The squeeze is put on helpless minorities to force them to flee to India and in the process to seize their property, to molest their women and subject them to forced conversion.
There are hardly any minorities left in West Pakistan, and, already, nearly five million inhabitants, including Buddhists and Christians have been forced out of East Pakistan. Discrimination is exercised against minorities in employment, business and rent remittances and their immovable properties are requisitioned or acquired by force. They are also subjected to a systematic and discriminatory denial of Pass Port and Visa facilities.



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Hindustan and Pakistan Differences.[Part-II]

Hindustan and Pakistan Differences.
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India accepted an agreement in January 1949, which provided for private sale and exchange of urban immovable property between Hindustan and Pakistan. No sooner was agreement signed; Pakistan leaders and News papers opened a barrage of propaganda to undermine it. The government of Pakistan followed up with an ordinance making it obligatory for any visitor to Pakistan to obtain an income-tax clearance certificate before leaving Pakistan unless his period of stay was less than 15 days at a time and less than 60 days in a year.

In the above circumstances that no displaced person could hope to sell or exchange his urban immovable property at a fair price. The government of Pakistan while supporting the proposal for private sale and exchange of property, in fact rendered it impossible for anyone to arrange sale or exchange without inviting insolvency.

In April 1956, Pakistan proposed a spot verification of claims by a Pakistan team for immovable property of the value of Rs.50 lakhs and above submitted by Muslim evacuees from India. Two years later it was agreed at a conference that claims for urban immovable property of the value of Rs. 5 lakhs and above should be verified by joint teams of Hindustan and Pakistan. The proposal, which Pakistan had made on its own initiative, was however not implemented by its government.

As regards agricultural lands, the principal of government –to-government has been accepted by a joint committee of the two countries. A problem of enormous magnitude and complexity involving hundreds of thousands of houses, shops, factories, workshops and institutions of all kinds, besides million of acres of agricultural land, could be solved only at government level.

The value of urban evacuee property in India does not exceed 20 percent of the value of the corresponding property left in Pakistan. India suggested that properties up to a certain valuation might be exchanged on government-to-government level, properties above that valuation being left open for private sale and exchange.

In 1953, India expressed its willingness to consider the Pakistan suggestion of private sale and exchange, provided the government of Pakistan was prepared to offer a reasonable solution for the properties which would remain undisposed of by private sale and exchange. To Hindustan’s regret, Pakistan refused even to discuss this and other implications of the proposal for private sale and exchange.

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Hindustan and Pakistan Differences.

Hindustan and Pakistan Differences.

At the time of partition, as regards Kashmir, the attitude of Pakistan betrayed a series of contradictions. The ruler’s right to accede to India or Pakistan subject to the geographical compulsions and wishes of the people was upheld by Jinnah in a number of statements. But in the Kashmir case he dismissed the right of the plea that the ruler was a Hindu. The majority of the people being Muslim, they were assumed to have an objective other than that of losing their identity in Pakistan.

For several years the ruler of Kashmir Sheik Abdullah was described as a “quisling”. It is equally fashionable in Pakistan to enforce the martial law at home, to suppress liberty, to deny basic rights to its inhabitants and to control over Press.

The leaders of Pakistan make professions of peace and train professional “liberators” the wars upon Kashmir and other parts of India. When Pakistan claims to Kashmir on the grounds of religion prove of little avail they shift the basis of their territorial demands to the requirements of Pakistan’s communication, economy and defence

Another problem which has bedeviled relations between the two countries is evacuee property. During partition millions of people migrated from West Pakistan to India and from North India to West Pakistan, not to mention many more who were forced to India from East Pakistan. The migrants from West Pakistan were mostly land owners, entrepreneurs in business and industry, and members of various professions like Law, Medicine and Teaching. Those who left India for Pakistan belonged mainly to the poorer classes, being tillers of the soil, artisans, labourers and petty shop keepers..

The value of evacuee urban property left by Hindus and Sikhs in West Pakistan amounts to over several billion dollars against less than Rs.100 Crores worth of property left behind by Muslim migrants to Pakistan.


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Hindu Desam

Hindu Desam




JaiHind! Vande Matharam!!

The fundamental unity of Hindustan was achieved by religious, cultural and economic interests. All sectarian or racial difference was merged in the national sentiment. Therefore the natural divisions of Hindustan have not destroyed the fundamental unity of the country. Unity amidst diversity has been a unique feature of the Hindustan culture. “Hindu Desam” as an Institution that will benefit mankind not only in India but also in rest of the world.

Hindustan and Pakistan.

Before Independence, Jinnah replied to a foreign correspondent “The last thing in attaining freedom for Pakistan, I seek is bloodshed. Although if driven to it, no Muslim is afraid to defend himself. “After some years Sir Sikander Hayat Khan, the Chief Minister of the Punjab had expressed his fear that if Pakistan if created would mean a massacre. His fear proved to be only true and a lot of massacre engulfed Muslims, Hindus and others.

Apparently the dream of Homeland for Muslims had little faith in their political liberty. As the First Governor-General of Pakistan, Jinnah assumed powers under the 9th schedule rather than part II of the 1935 Act, “Which gave him at once dictatorial powers unknown to any constitutional Governor-General representing the King.” The only freedom which politicians enjoyed in the Jinnah’s Pakistan was the freedom to malign India, and to nurse and propagate the illusion of an India determined to destroy Pakistan. The same propaganda is now continued in Pakistan.

In Pakistan which rose out of sea of blood, all absolute power was concentrated in the hands of one individual. Such was the structure of Jinnah’s thought and actions which laid the foundation of Pakistan and inevitably, furnished the Blue print for Pakistan policy towards India and its relations with other countries. At the root of his thinking lay the assumption that there was nothing in common between Hindus and Muslims. If such a view were accepted, the gulf between India and Pakistan could never be bridged.

Another problem which arose between Hindustan and Pakistan concerned the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Going against his own pronouncements that accession was a matter for the ruler to decide. Jinnah claimed Jammu and Kashmir on the basis of religion. Jinnah was in a hurry and he began to put political and economic pressure on the state to bend its people to his own will. When this failed he organized a tribal invasion of state in the course of which the people of the state were subjected to wholesale loot, arson and slaughter. Threatened with another failure Pakistan put its regular forces in Kashmir. When faced with the complete failure of its forces by the advancing Indian Army. Pakistan accepted the cease fire.

Pakistan then agreed to the wishes of the people being ascertained by a plebiscite on the condition of prior vacation of its aggression and proceeded to obstruct, in every possible way, the implementation of U.N.Commission’s resolutions on the subject. In order to achieve its objective of seizing Kashmir by force of arms, Pakistan joined Western military blocs and signed a military aid agreement with the U.S.A.

When this proved to be an illusion, Pakistan made common cause with the Peoples Republic of China. Thus having secured over the billion dollars worth of Tanks, jet fighters and sophisticated weapons from the U.S.A. and other western allies, and having received assurance of Chinese support, Pakistan tried massive armed infiltration into Kashmir in August 1965, followed by a full fledged invasion with armour and air force.




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