“I have sinned” & “The Enemy is dead”- Someone had misguided Jinnah’s followers
Agha Inamullah Khan
The new baby home alone, seeking votes of Sindhis but pleasing establishment , PTI minister Mr. Ali Zaidi claims too many Sindhis are already working in Sindh, hence jobs have to be given to those from Punjab and KPK. Brilliant!! How many Sindhi have quota in Punjab, KPK and elsewhere.
July 2nd, 1997
It was unusual to hear
sound of brooms sweeping to clean the dust off the road around 3.00 PM. I was
supervising masons for repair on roof top and tilted to look down. My neighbor
waved at me and said, “Switch on TV for the news, and kindly get this debris
lifted from your door, guests will be pouring in”. I wondered why! What was the
occasion? It was soon aired on TV, “Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s old
companion; Agha Ghulam Nabi passed on at the age of 86”.
1842 AD
General Charles Napier, a soldier from
well to do family was serving in British Army. In 1842 he was commander of the
East India Company’s Bombay Presidency army, when he invaded Sindh to defeat
Muslim rulers here and he further advanced against the orders, and conquered
entire province, and then informed his superiors by sending single-word
dispatch; “Peccavi”, meaning in Latin, “I have sinned”. His conquest of Sindh was seen as paraphernalia of imperial legend. Sindh was a
wealthy province then for its textile industry and trade relations with Far
East and Balkans as it is eyed upon to this day for its enormous mineral wealth, agriculture and rich cultural heritage & hill stations for tourism.
Napier made this
Bungalow in Sukkur his Headquarters while touring upper Sindh. He was convinced
that Talpur Rulers were not loyal to British Raj. The 1832 Treaty had opened
Indus river for trade but not for military purposes. That famous single
word Telegram,"Peccavi" by Charles Napier was sent from this Bunglow,
when in 1843, he provoked resistance to crush the Amirs forces in the battle of
Miani in 1843 outside Hyderabad (1)
27th April,
2020
Geo Private TV Channel
has been labeled Treacherous for the news it airs, and its owner Mir.
Shakil-ur. Rehman is behind bars. I came across the news on social media,
regarding an app to write in Sindhi language font on I-Phone. Geo has gone
viral reporting to avoid using Sindhi font on I-Phone as it damages software.Why do they hate Sindh so
much? It feeds whole of Pakistan. Be it water from Sindhu (Indus) river, its
oil & gas reserves and other mineral wealth like coal, gypsum, granite,
silicon and many other precious elements. Especially Urdu Media, does not miss
a single chance and is always ready to cause damage to interests of Sindh, be
its geo-political, its people, culture and even language to eliminate it to
facilitate their settlement and claim separate province, a replica of same
model what Israel does to Palestinians
in Gaza or India in occupied Kashmir. They have not spared a single chance to grab
its land in the need for creation of 5th province. Mohajirs
(Refugees) since first Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaqat Ali Khan’s regime,
Afghans since cold war and many from different provinces head Sindh to earn
their daily bread and we have been very accommodative since day one
instinctively as an act of kindness, generosity and hospitality. But none has
bothered to merge in its culture or shown any glimpse of love for the house
that feeds them. In fact since decades have conspired to expel the hosts and
occupy resources as if they are the ones who have woven the very yarn of its
millennia old geo-cultural fabric that actually has its link to Babylon in
Mesopotamia, in ancient Iraq and Egyptian civilization. Except few old settlers; clans from progeny
of Arabas, Afghans and Georgians, who settled few centuries ago speak
Sindhi as their mother tongue.
MQM, the establishment’s
synthetically prepared militant organization which demanded 5th
province to crush MRD (Movement to Restore Democracy) that was formed against
oppression of General Zia-ul Huq, the army dictator who hanged elected Prime
Minister of Pakistan; originally from Larkana in Sindh where Sindh traces its
roots back to 5000 years BC one of the earliest settlements on earth to live in
organized cities. MQM in Sindh has committed crimes no different than what ISIS
did in Iraq & Syria
What a shame Refugees
still as they call themselves under banner of MQM demanding expulsion of Sindhi
students from Karachi University and colleges.
Izhar ul Hassan blaming
Sindhi brought and spread Corona Virus pandemic to Karachi and not their churning,
stinking mouths with nicotine Paan and spitting so frequently in public places.
Most of Urdu speaking community brain washed to feel Sindhi are illiterate. In
fact it is these Sindhi who were on front line in making of Pakistan and not
the body bags you count and yell of in genocide that resulted due to partition
of sub-continent and emergence of Pakistan. The pogrom was actually armed and
financed by Royal British House. By the way where were Burmese, Pona wala, Moti
wala, Rampuris, this wala that wala, falana bhai and Dhimka bhai when war with
British was on?
Urdu speaking
intellectuals on other hand demanding Karachi as separate land , time after time
since Liaqat Ali Khan, who wanted refugees settlements because he did not have
vote bank here, but Jinnah did being a Sindhi and born in rural Sindh. Do they have any shame! Why are they
embarrassed to speak Sindhi? It has been
routine now be it ARY, GEO, CHANNEL 24, 92, BOL, SAMA, Urdu media is always
ready to bash Sindh. Just recently GEO identified an issue and went viral on
social media advising users to avoid using Sindhi font on your IPhone, claiming
that it damages its software. Strange! Most of 52 letters in Sindhi come from
Arabic. Wonder why no such complaint from Gulf countries.
27 April 1948
Fateful day for Sindh
On this day the premier
of Sindh, Ayoub Khuhro, was dismissed by Jinnah, accusing him of bad
governance, misconduct and corruption. He was a bulwark against the nefarious
design of Liaqat Ali Khan to settle nine lakhs refugees in Sindh and takeover Karachi.
At that time the population of Karachi was three lakhs. Khuro wanted to accept
only one lakh refugees. He feared that huge influx of refugees would alter the
demography of Sindh permanently as well as would jeopardize the sovereignty and
political stability of Sindh.
Before the dismal of
Khuhro’s Government, the Sindh Assembly passed a unanimous resolution (including
Hindu and Muslim members of the assembly) on 11 Feb, 1948 opposing the takeover
of Karachi by the central government.
This day sealed the fate
of Sindh because Khuhro bravely fought for the sovereignty of Sindh. And he was
replaced by Pir Illahi Bux who handed over the city to the central government
and facilitated the settlement of refugees in Sindh, which was against the
rights of Sindh.
The above un -distorted
facts of -history uncover the truth how aliens conspired against the people of
Sindh and weakened their unalienable right over sovereignty of Sindh.
(Reference: What's app post shared by Dr. Farid- Son in law of Shaikh Ayaz)
27th April,
2020
Mother sadly died on January 17, 2019. She loved chatting with me sharing her brought up in what was very politically active scenario before partition and after making of Pakistan. She was already 9 years old in the year Pakistan emerged on world’s map. For years I have pondered
what made the man say, “The enemy is dead”, when he worked so closely with him on
so many fronts for the cause of separate homeland for Muslims. Who sacrificed
his academic career in Aligarh and came back to his native village to organize
and activate Muslim League in Sindh. My mother quoted,” he came in and shocked
everyone. Not with the news that Jinnah is dead, because we had already heard
on radio and were sad and waiting for him to share his grief as him being his
faithful follower but he shocked us all when he said, “ The enemy is dead”. My
mother said," we could not digest this is coming from a man who worked for
Jinnah to organize Muslim League in Sindh. The man who agreed to say yes to his
family to be married only on one
condition that it will be a small occasion and the money spared should be given
to him so he could call upon a labor convention in his native village Sultankot to full
fill promise he made to Jinnah. And he stood by it. Ibrahim Munshi quotes in his book “Akhund
Hindustan", that it was first time a freedom song of an independent homeland for Muslims
was sung in that convention in 1936 in Sultankot. The very same man Agha Ghulam Nabi who, after making out a call for
Jihad endorsed through Mufti Sahibdad Jamali from his village to march to fight, and help liberate the
Babari Masjid of Sindh in 1938, shocked his family stating, “The Enemy is dead.
For years I pondered why? There must have been a misunderstanding. Who could
have pumped that sort of venom in him? He was close to Prime Minister Liaqat
Ali Khan as well, and Begum Rana the first lady often visited their home, mom
told in in rented residence behind Jinnah’s shrine. I have pondered over it for
years. I got my answer when I came across a what’s app post shared by son in
law of renowned revolutionary poet of Sindh, Shaikh Ayaz, popular for his sonic
“
Sindhri ty Ser kair na Dindo, sahando kari mayar o yar”. Agha Ghulam
Nabi had soon realized that he was misguided, most probably by anti- Pakistan
elements within the Muslim League. Hence he continued his support to Jinnah’s
sister, Ms. Fatima Jinnah and was sent to Jail by Gen. Ayoub Khan's EBDO (Elected Bodies Disqualification Order of 1959). No politician was to address a meeting, issue a statement or hold a press conference of political nature. We now know
the real enemy but our case rests in the court of Almighty, and we are waiting
for Imam to declare land of Sufi's to be Medina-al- Sani, but we surely will miss revolutionist like Agha Ghulam Nabi
Reference:
1. Jars of Clay, Pauline Brown (2006) pages 15,16
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