KARACHI: “Thank God, Pakistan is a reality and Sind has joined Pakistan today [June 26]. The days are not far off when the Musalmans may regain their lost empire in all its splendour …” said Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah, Premier of Sind, in an interview to the OPI after the Sind Assembly had passed a resolution decided to join the Pakistan Constituent Assembly.

He added, “I take this opportunity to appeal to the minorities of Pakistan generally, and of Sind specially, to think of themselves as full-fledged citizens of the Pakistan State, co-operate with the majority community in building up the economy and the future structure thereof and to discard those of their leaders who for their own … ends are exploiting the sentiments of masses and creating a bogus stunt of the minority being oppressed and suppressed by the majority. Of course, now a section of the minorities in Sind is beginning to realise that their age-long policy of disrupting the Muslims and thereby ruling over them will no longer be a paying business. They are now too ready to offer their co-operation to us but this friendly gesture must be on an All-India basis and not in Sind only.”

Published in Dawn, June 28th, 2022