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I am nearing the completion of two-year research for a book on Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, with the entire timeline of events covered. If you got a question/argument which you feel is important, do drop a word in comments/DM/f2f over cups of tea (it will be of immense help to me).
Iqbal, the poet, had become greatly disappointed about #Kashmir when he visited the place in 1921.
کشمیری کہ با بندگی خو گرفتہ
Kashmiri, he lamented, has become accustomed to slavery.
Then a decade later, Iqbal saw hope - in one man.
Nawab being nawab!
Ali Akbar Shah, president of the Sindh Muslim League, led a Sindhi deputation to Nawab Liaquat Ali Khan to urge protection of Sindhi culture. Liaquat responded, “what is Sindhi culture, except driving donkeys & camels?”
Allama Iqbal had deep reverence for Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, as the poet here clearly stated: "he has completely removed from Muslims of #Kashmir the fear ..."
The tragedy of Muslims of subcontinent is that leaders like Basha Khan were thrown into oblivion by the empires and their mercenaries.
“پاکستان تو انگریز نے پنجاب کے سرمایہ دار اور جاگیردار اور فوج کے لئیے بنایا تھا۔”
باچا خان بابا
اللہ میری تقصیر معاف فرماۓ، مجھ پہ ایسا زمانہِ جاہلیت بھی گزرا ہے جب میں خان عبدالغفار خان کو غلط سمجھتا تھا۔ لیکن اللہ کا کرم ہے کہ مرنے سے پہلے میں نے اپنی اصلاح کر لی۔
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Wow! This is some revelation, and so much important for those in Kashmir who have taken stories of princes and fairies and lalalands as their history. This state was never a state, it was always a wadera-land.
The elected Chief Minister of a province being rendered a missing person brings me back to the first missing person of this country, our founding father, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
He demoted a General, for merely having a political opinion, namely Ayub Khan, and posted him to the East Pakistan Rifles, barring him from any further promotion.
On 14 June 1948, the Quaid addressed the Quetta Staff College and said, and I quote, “Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people.” He knew what they were up to and the harm they would do to his country.
It didn’t sit well with the armed forces. A month later, Quaid-e-Azam was abducted and taken to Ziarat against his will.
Ziarat has a 4,000-year-old history, yet in those 4,000 years, it received its first patient. There exists no sanatorium, no hospital, not even a dispensary, to this day. Even today, we cannot easily visit it. It is still kept primitive.
The Quaid was cut off from the world there, just as Imran Khan is today, and so is Sohail Afridi. He, too, was placed in “protective custody.” This nation never saw him again.
All of Pakistan’s problems will vanish the day we recover the first missing person, our Quaid, who was left to die, and the day the Generals accept their fate as servants of the people, bow their heads, and salute the civilian.
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The tribes of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Kashmir and Jinnah's solution: if they don't obey, both India and Pakistan would attack the tribes in Kashmir. Dateline: 1 Nov, 1947.
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Where is the proof (citations, please) that Iqbal invited Jinnah to return from London in 1933. All that is available suggests Qadiyani leader Abdur Rahim Dard (March 33) & Nawab Liaquat Ali Khan (July 33) made the invitations (not Iqbal). Can anyone cite a primary reference?
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In 1938, Nehru met Iqbal at Javed Manzil, Lahore.
"What is there in common between Jinnah and you?" Iqbal told Nehru.
"He (Jinnah) is a siyasat-daan, you (Nehru) are a muhib-e-watan."
What is epistemic evasion? It means avoiding, deflecting, or circumventing evidence that would require you to reconsider a belief, often by shifting the discussion to an irrelevant objection, technicality, loophole, or entirely different issue.
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Iqbal conceived the idea of National Conference in 1934. The earliest available disclosure is when Abdullah reached out to Bazaz, disclosing he was doing so as "strongly advised" by Iqbal. So this isn't a later construct. It was, however, deliberately omitted in most narratives.
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Muslim Conference's 1935 session is key to understanding how Iqbal's 1934 advice shaped the formation of National Conference. The outreach began here, led by party president Ch. Abbas & Gen. Sec. Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. Nehru wasnt in scene. He 1st met Abdullah in Oct 1937.
Excerpt from Chaudhary Ghulam Abbas' speech, 25-27th Oct, 1935, at fourth annual session of Muslim Conference, setting the stage for the process that eventually culminated with the organisation's renaming as National Conference. Iqbal meeting, quoted by Mujahid, took place in 34.
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A lot of people are asking this question, so responding out of courtesy. The process to launch a nation-wide, broad-based movement began as early as 1934, & culminated in 1939. The resolution for name-change was introduced in March 1938, when Iqbal (died April 1938) was alive.
