Express Tribune: By Ajmal Kamal: Before coming to the last — and the most masterful — deletion from Saadat Hasan Manto’s Urdu short story Naya Qanoon at the hands of the great men editing educational texts for our textbook board, I would like to speak about a comment my last column received on its web version. A reader of my column had this to say about it:
“It’s an old style of analysis in which writers consciously forget some obvious mistakes while praising some incident or personality. In the good old days, in their anti-colonial writings many progressives as well as secular intellectuals praised Hindu, Muslim and Sikh fundamentalists in their so-called anti-imperialist drive. In this article, the writer praised Sir Zafrullah Khan in such a way too. Any ordinary student of history knows why Zafrullah was made the foreign minister. Not because of his minority position but due to his influence and close relations with 10 Downing Street. In the early 1930s, when Mian Sir Fazli Hussain had come back to Punjab, he proposed Zafrullah’s name to be chosen to sit at a place where British-Indian policy was framed. If one reads the autobiography of Sir Zafrullah,Tahdees-e-Nimat, one can map his fundamentalist position too. He recorded an incident when, as foreign minister, he was in France to open Pakistan’s embassy and after the meeting he laid the founding stone of the French branch of Jamaat Ahmadiya. I do not want to add here the controversial incident of the funeral prayers of Jinnah yet, it is a known fact that Sir Zafrullah was a religious fundamentalist. I have read his speech in defence of Liaquat Ali Khan’s Objectives Resolution, which is also a proof of my claim.”
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I met one renowned retired high court judge in Lahore Bar recently. He told me “Do you know who gave us Lahore where we are sitting today, we are grateful to Sir Zafrullah Khan who gave us Lahore. At the time of independence The English gave included Calcutta and Lahore in India. Then Zafarullah Khan who was very close to Tory Government high ups and was nicknamed as “intelligent Zafrullah” used his connections and convinced the English and got inclusion of Lahore in Pakistan but with its extended Wahga borders, so we must not forget the history, the mullahs are trying to damage”. The mullahs have divided the country’s unity into secterianism destroying the fabric of unity and strength of Pakistan as if Pakistan was created for Sunnis or Shias only and not for Pakistanis. The rights of citizens must not at any stage compromised with their religious beliefs, once done the homes, streets, towns and cities will be divided into so many which the mullah has succeeded in with the power greedy “Muhsin Kush” friend killer Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and “mullah in uniform” Gen Ziaul Haq who are championed the divisions and sectarianism thereby destroying the unity and discipline. God save Pakistan and the world from adeemussama mullahs.
Yes Sir Zafrullah khan spoke in favor of Liaqua’s
objective resolution. Iskandar Mirza objected to the word ALLAH Used to please Mullas. He said every one knows this is the country created for Muslims of the sub-continent. This Word will haunt
us. Do not give in to Mulla’s. He replied I have to
strengthen my hands. How visionary Iskindar Mirza was