These days in some quarters in India there is a strong campaign mounted against free speech spoken especially in praise of Pakistan. I detest this because what is fact is fact and one must be bold enough to express this fact however much to the chagrin of the opponents of this fact.
Pakistan is a baby born in India thru the crisis and it was first conceived in the mind of the great Urdu Poet Iqbal who proposed especial separate homeland for the Indian Muslims whose life safety he always feared. Taking cue of this proposal, Mohammed Ali Jinnah went ahead to induct this into his political agenda because Jinnah felt Hindus in India will never allow Muslims to grow as full citizens of free India. This I disagree. If Jinnah did not work for the partition of India to create Pakistan, today Jinnah’s community would have been in majority in India in which case they could easily maintain upper hand in India where ugly incidents like Ayodya would not have taken place in the first place.
The way Jews and Muslims in the Middle East will never become friends, in the same way Hindus and Muslims in India will never become one though they may for political gains say different. For me this is a hard fact which I admit very firmly. Even though Indian Muslim being more secular may accept Hindus as his brother but never a Pakistani Muslim because Pakistani Muslims in general have hatred for Indian Hindus who are blamed for the partition time atrocities against Muslims as if they are innocent.
The second point of hatred for India by Pakistanis is due to the creation of Bangladesh thru the most deadly war India waged against Pakistan. Thru this war India dismembered Pakistan and created Bangladesh. This was the greatest humiliation for the entire Pakistani psyche which they will never forget and will never forgive India. Because of this, Pakistan is promoting insurgency in Kashmir which will never end.
What I admire in Pakistanis is that they are ferocious patriotic people and more capable to sacrifice for the development of their country. When Pakistan was formed, there were no proper facilities to do the office work in many places but to overcome this deficiency the Pakistanis were doing their work by sitting under the shade of the trees and to save money instead of using Pins and Clips they were using Thorns from the trees.
The other miracle they made was the creation of Atom Bomb inspite of having so many obstacles and difficulties. When Zulficar Ali Bhutto said “if necessary we will make maximum sacrifice and eat even grass but definitely go for the manufacture of Atom Bomb”. And they succeeded.
A.Veronica Fernandes.