Travels in Pakistan

Jinnah's speech that Urdu and only Urdu should be the national language of Pakistan and that speech started a controversy. Then hatred and a deep mistrust of Urdu speaking people formed afterwards. And the most surprising part is that Mr. Jinnah's mother tongue was not Urdu! He was born in Gujarat and so he was a Gujarati. He couldn't read or write Urdu. His statement started a storm of protest in East Bengal. One day, when a peaceful demonstration was passing near the Dacca Medical College, the demonstrators were fired upon and as a result three innocent people were killed. A procession in Jessore was fired upon as well and many people were killed there. These were peaceful demonstrations and they were demanding that Bengali should be the national language. Was this a crime? Who ordered that lethal force be used? I don't think any Bihari was involved in these heinous crimes. At no time there was an Urdu era in East Bengal. Urdu was a foreign language and it had no base in East Bengal. There were no Urdu newspapers that were printed in East Bengal.

How many Urdu speaking or non-Bengalees were there? There was the union of Egypt with Syria and when they didn't like it they parted peacefully. The fate of the people who migrated from India to East Pakistan was worse.