26 December 2004	Sunday	13 Ziqa'ad 1425

HYDERABAD, Dec 25: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has said history of Pakistan has been distorted and today's younger generation does not know that Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Khan Liaquat Ali Khan and Fatima Jinnah had been overtly or covertly murdered.

Speaking telephonically from London at an Eid Millan party organized at the Latifabad's nursery park on Friday night, he said another luminary of the Pakistan movement, Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, had been expelled from the house allotted to him by the government and Shireen Jinnah, another sister of the Quaid-i-Azam, had been humiliated in courts by then rulers for claiming inheritance after Fatima Jinnah's death.

He claimed that Pakistan had been created by forefathers of Urdu-speaking people and no one else had any role in the independence movement. He said those who were calling him traitors had acted as informers of the British against freedom fighters during the 1857 movement.

He claimed that it was wrong that Sheikh Mujeebur Rehman was set up by India to disintegrate the country and observed that in fact army generals and politicians had dismembered the country but branded Mujeebur Rehman and the Awami League as traitors.

Lashing out at nationalist forces of Sindh for opposing his call to open the Munabao-Khokhrapar border, he said they were on the payroll of the establishment and were opposing the proposal without any reason. He said Urdu-speaking people of India could be settled in Sindh by entering from the Wagah border, instead of the Khokhrapar route. He maintained the opening of the border would lead to prosperity in the area and people would get jobs but the nationalists did not want economic boost in the area. He said the opening of the route would also enable divided families to visit their relatives.

He claimed that those who went to India through the Wagah border were subjected to humiliation and they had to bribe officials.

The Muttahida chief also rapped intellectuals of Punjab for writing articles in Urdu dailies against him for raising voice against the two-nation theory and for rights of Sindh.

He condemned those columnists who had allegedly written one-sided articles against the Urdu language and the MQM. He warned editors of these newspapers to ensure 'right of reply' otherwise their newspapers would not be published and circulated in Sindh.

He said the conspiracy of nationalist forces and the establishment to pit Sindhis and Urdu-speaking people against each other would be foiled because they were untied now.