APROPOS the letter ‘Quaid was right’ (Dec 24). I would proudly say our great leader Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was absolutely right for advocating the two-nation theory.

Those Muslims who were against Jinnah’s movement for a separate Muslim state are now realising their mistake. In brief, he united a scattered mass into a cohesive block with one flag and one voice in a state where they could achieve political, economic and religious independence by ridding themselves of Hindu dominance.

Those who realise this truth include Mehbooba Mufti, a former chief minister of India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, who recently tweeted: ‘Decision of Jammu and Kashmir leadership to reject two-nation theory in 1947 and align with India has backfired’.

First, the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A and now a unilateral controversial Citizenship Amendment Act — blatant anti-Muslim moves — by the extremist Hindu government of BJP are leading to the rebirth of Quaid’s two-nation theory in India.

Such malicious shenanigans on basis of religion make India an apartheid state like Israel. India’s akhand Bharat expansionism move seems to be replicating Israel’s Zionism.

In 1971, after the fall of Dhaka, Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi jubilantly boasted when she said: “Today, we have sunk Jinnah’s two-nation theory’ in the Bay of Bengal”.

But, contrary to her whim, history has come full circle. The current nationwide protestations and riots across India post-CAA and one evident remorse of Indian Muslims over their opposition to Jinnah’s theory tell us that our Quaid was right.

Zahid Ali Zohri
Nagar, Gilgit-Baltistan

Published in Dawn, January 1st, 2020