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I observed in 1947 (when the Pakistan Movement was
going on), Muslim youth used to walk on road with
banners like ‘Pakistan ka Matlab kya, La ilaha illallah!’
(What does Pakistan mean? It means there is ‘no god but
God’). ‘There is no god but God’ is the Islamic creed
which determines a person’s entry into Islam.

I was thinking that Muslims by singing these words had
promised: “O God! Give us Pakistan and we will spread
your word everywhere in the world!” This is what they
meant by the above slogan. But after the formation of
Pakistan, they started fighting amongst themselves.
Cricket has a term called ‘sledging’, and when two teams
are playing and one team is showing better performance,
then the losing team lashes out such provocative remarks
that the momentum of the winning team is compromised.
Similarly, this momentum after the creation of Pakistan
was hijacked by some untoward elements and they went
about indulging in negative talk – complaining and
speaking of oppression – that this became the common
line of thought. In other words, a ‘political sledging’ was
carried out and the people of Pakistan were trapped in by
these hijackers. As a result, the momentum of Pakistan
was devastated.

I once went to Iraq where a Pakistani Shiite was also
visiting. He was a senior person and had migrated from
Delhi to Pakistan. I said to him that you have seen both
pre-Partition Pakistan and post-Partition Pakistan. What
is your experience? He started weeping and said:

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