THE ASPIRATIONS OF SINDHIS
Dr. Jai Maharaj
[ From: Jhoole Lal'u <united...@eml.cc>
[ Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005
Sindhis are predominantly sufis who believe in harmony
and tolerance in the matter of religion. Before the
partition of India, the majority of Sindhis consistently
voted against candidates supporting Pakistan. Although
the British colonialists used their considerable power
and influence to support the pro-Pakistan candidates in
1946, such candidates succeeded in obtaining only about
40% of the popular vote.
By gerrymandering the electorate, the colonialists
managed the election of a majority in the Sindh Assembly
which favored joining Pakistan. The Sindhi vote for
Pakistan was also facilitated by the now famous 'Lahore
Resolution' passed by the Muslim League -- this
resolution promised "autonomy and sovereignty of
constituent units" and "protection of religious
minorities". Sindhis have strongly resented Pakistan,
whose policies since inception have been the very anti-
thesis of both these principles.
The Current Situation
Pakistan today is held together by a powerful military
which directly consumes 70% of the its budget after debt
payments. The military has gained strength by
opportunistically aligning itself with the United States,
China and Saudi Arabia. It has directly ruled the country
for most of its history and has cultivated relations with
the fundamentalist Islamist clergy to strengthen its hold
on power. In fact, the military is a bastion of Islamists
who are influenced by fundamentalist movements such as
Wahabism and Deobandism -- the same movements which hold
sway among large numbers of Pakistani Punjabis.
In fact, the Pakistan military is a key source of
instability in the region. Internally, it has repeatedly
destabilized elected governments. It was the primary
supporter of the Taliban in Afghanistan, responsible for
bringing them into power. Recently, an American official
was quoted as saying that the U.S. did not realize how
critical the Pakistanis were in propping up the Taliban -
- when that support was finally withdrawn four weeks
after the start of the American bombing, the Taliban
regime collapsed. ISI, Pakistan military's intelligence
service is believed to have been deeply involved in
heroin smuggling operations -- with such operations
providing the bulk of its operating budget. And the ISI
continues to sponsor terrorism against neighboring India.
(Remarks by G. C. Asnani: I am a Sindhi Hindu, born in
Sindh in 1922. I know the developments in Sindh before
Partition. I am now a refugee from Sindh. The Muslims of
Sindh voted for Partition of the Country, Sindh to become
a component of Pakistan. It is not correct to blame the
Britishers for Partition of the Country. Around 1843, the
Hindu Seth Naoomal invited the Britishers to attack Sindh
and liberate the Sindhi Hindus from the tyranny of Muslim
rule in Sindh. Let the younger generation not get
misguided. I know how Mr. G. M. Syed and Mr. Khuhro were
threatening Sindhi Hindus about the conditions which will
follow after the Independence and Partition of India. It
has so happened that Muslims of Sindh did not get after
Partition what they had hoped to get from Partition of
India. Non-Sindhi Muslims have taken over what Sindhi
Muslims had hoped to take over after Sindhi Hindus had
left Sindh.)
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"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not so send
peace, but a sword.
"For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the
daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in
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"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
- Matthew 10:34-36.
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