MUNSHIGANJ (Khulna): The Central Communications Minister, Khan A. Sabur, on Thursday [Aug 17] appealed to the younger generation to build up Pakistan on the solid foundation of Muslim nationalism.

He said the protagonists of Bengali nationalism were preaching their “isms” with a view to let an alien culture creep into Pakistan.

Addressing a public meeting at Munshiganj, he said that some people were preaching the gospel of sovereign Bengal or Greater Bengal and Bengali nationalism having the encouragement of India behind them.

These people are out to observe birth and death anniversaries of Rabindranath Tagore who contributed nothing to the Muslim cause, he said.

Khan A. Sabur, sounding a note of warning, said that they would never succeed in their attempts.

The Minister said, “We are one nation; we fought, we achieved and we will die for it.” He declared there was no scope for thinking on the lines of Bengalism, Pathanism and Punjabism. He asked the people to nourish the ideology of Pakistan.

Published in Dawn, August 20th, 2017