(EDITORIAL) This day six years ago, the leaders of the Muslim nation assembled in open session on the platform of the All-India Muslim League and proclaimed to the world the charter of Muslim freedom. Muslims are not addicted to verbosity and a brief resolution served … But the Pakistan concept is … is as old as the advent of Islam in India… .

Here in India, since the decline of Muslim rule … Muslims fought and struggled to overthrow alien domination over them, but superior might prevailed. Then the British forged for them additional chains of economic and cultural slavery. A stroke of a pen — abolition of Persian as the court language — killed their culture … Another stroke of the pen — the Resumption Proceedings — made the wealthiest among them into beggars… .

Published in Dawn, March 23rd, 2021