An honest expression
I read the article 'The past is still present' by M B Naqvi published in DS on 17 December .The perspicacious write up is very successful to depict the puritanical exploitation in ruthless ruling by autocratic martial rules endorsed and patrionised by feudal lords in West Pakistan who stampeded every right of East Pakistanis in those pre-independent days. He goes against two-nation theory while telling 'It stands proven that Islam, Islam alone, can't sustain a modern state, especially if it comprises two geographically separate zones.'
The writer has welter of chagrin. Ah! the irony of it all. West Pakistanis are paying the price. Democracy once subverted in early 1950s has never returned either in original or present Pakistan. This Pakistan is under a military government in its fifty-eighth year. A confession made by him, Pakistanis are paying the price with their own slavery for keeping the east Bangalis slaves for 24 years.
The sagacity of the Pakistani columnist rendered in his expression is no doubt laudable. But what about the defeated Pakistani remnants in Bangladesh who loathed Bangladesh's creation and still want to supersede 16 December by 14 August? What will be their eye-opener? What will make them sober up?
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