(EDITORIAL) Since Lord Wavell’s broadcast “appealing” to the Muslim League to revise its decision not to co-operate in the interim Government and in the working out of the Cabinet Mission’s long-term Plan, he has been asked by the Qaed-e-Azam to reduce his indefinite assurances to concrete proposals. To this request there has so far been no response. On the contrary, the view is being canvassed by Congress-inspired propaganda that the Viceroy has not further moves to make, but the onus is on the Muslim League. …The repeated criticism that although all the legitimate apprehensions of the Muslim League “have now been met” the League still remains unmoved in its decision of non-co-operation, calls, however, for an answer.

…Neither on the long-term Plan nor on the question of the interim Government has the Viceroy or the Congress said anything since the League’s Bombay decision which can be construed as an inviolable guarantee that (1) the fundamental basis of the long-term Plan, conceding to the Muslims limited Pakistan in their two majority zones, will not be departed from and (2) the status of the Muslim League will be adequately recognised in the interim Government….

Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2021