SIMLA 1935
STARTING FROM 5TH AND 8TH BENGAL LIGHT CAVALRY IN PUNJAB AFTER 1849 AND WITH GREAT GRAND FATHER AGHA FAIZ BAKSH AS AN INSPECTOR AT CHAUNTRA AND JAATLI AND AT GUJJAR KHAN.
NOTABLE FRIENDS OF MATERNAL AND PATERNAL GRAND FATHER WERE RAJA KHUDADAD FATHER OF GENERALS JAMAL AND KAMAL AND SARDAR AZEEM OF JHELUM AND OFF COURSE BRIGADIER GULZAR OF JHELUM.
AN UNCLE AND NASIR NAWAZ JANJUA WERE CLASS FELLOWS AT SAINT MARYS MURREE ROAD AND BOTH JOINED FIRST ENTRY OF CADET COLLEGE HASSAN ABDAL WITH BOTH BECOMING CADET CAPTAINS OF FIRST ENTRY.NASIR NAWAZ ROSE TO BRIGADIERS RANK.
SULTAN KHAN IN THE CENTRE WHEN HE HAD NOT BECOME A TABLIGHI.AS DEPUTY CHIEF ACCOUNTS OFFICER AMERICAN WAR PURCHASES NEW ELHI 1946
MOHAMMAD SULTAN KHAN A SHINWARI FROM SIKANDARA RAO.HE WAS A CONTEMPORARY AND CLOSE FRIEND OF SARDAR AZIM FROM JHELUM.HIS OTHER CONTEMPORARIES WERE MAJOR GENERAL HAQ NAWAZ A DIE HARD TABLIGHI AS SULTAN KHAN BECAME AFTER 1960.A SAD ENDING TO AN INTERESTING MANS LIFE.
GRAND FATHER BORN AT DINGA WHILE HIS FATHER WAS IN CHARGE OF PART OF UPPER JHELUM CANAL DIGGING ,WITH CLOSE FRIEND AND ALIG BRIGADIER GULZAR AT GRAND FATHERS HOUSE DARYA GANJ RAWALPINDI EARLY 1950S.A REUNION OF MAO COLLEGE ALIGARH OLD BOYS.ALSO IN THE PICTURE ARE COLONEL SALAM.
GRAND FATHER WITH CLOSE FRIEND AND ALIG BRIGADIER GULZAR AT GRAND FATHERS HOUSE DARYA GANJ RAWALPINDI EARLY 1950S.A REUNION OF MAO COLLEGE ALIGARH OLD BOYS.ALSO IN THE PICTURE ARE COLONEL SALAM.
GRAND FATHER ON RETIREMENT AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY MINISTRY OF DEFENCE RAWALPINDI IN 1954.SEATED NEXT TO HIM IS HOWELL .STANDING SEVENTH FROM LEFT IS TARIQ AMIN CONTEMPORARY OF NASIR NAWAZ JANJUA AND LATER BATCH OF 1964 OF THE NOTORIOUS CSP.
Debates about Creation of Pakistan
Posted: Nov 29, 2009 Sun 10:58 am Views: 12 Interacts: 0
Not only the Punjab landed class and the Sindh landed class feared congress but also the UP Muslims could not compete with Hindus in competitive examinations.Initially the main exponents of Muslim Separatism were UP Muslims.Later the Punjab feudals and the Sindh feudals embraced this idea.
This political theme is exhaustively proved by Francis Robinson in his brilliant book Muslim Separatism in UP.
Interestingly no Nawab of real standing migrated from UP to Pakistan.Only Nawabzadas i.e the younger sons migrated to Pakistan because thry did not inherit land because of law of primogeniture.
The Congress also did not want a very large Muslim minority in India and Nehru and Patel pursued this as a strategy.
Jaswant Singh has repeated many old themes just in order to gain political mileage.After all the Muslim vote counts in a very large number of constituencies in India.
the fact is that the British were supporting Muslims with quotas.Out of 87 Muslims who joined ICS till 1940 or so only 27 passed the exam while some 58 were nominees or best failures.
The UP Muslims favoured separatism because they could not compete with the Hindus.This was the basis.The Bombay Muslims favoured Pakistan and Adamjee supported Muslim LEAGUE because they could not compete with Hindu business.
It has become fashionable to idolise creation of Pakistan.
While idealism played a role most idealists were dead after 1857.Killed in battles with British.
Social and material factors played a great role.This theme has been examined in great detail by Francis Robinson in his book Muslim Separatism in UP printed by OUP India.
Riaz Haq , you need to read amore about the history of partition.
My grandfather was member of students union MAO College Aligarh in 1918 alongwith Zakir Hussain later president India.His brothers were also at MAO College Aligarh along with Ghulam Mohammad later Governor General,Liaquat Ali Khan and Malik Umar Hayat .Grandfathers brother retired as an SP of Police before partition.
The UP Muslims favoured separatism because they could not compete with the Hindus.This was the basis.The Bombay Muslims favoured Pakistan and Adamjee supported Muslim LEAGUE because they could not compete with Hindu business.
I am glad to say that my family owed nothing to Pakistan .My maternal grandfather was a Deputy Secretray Ministry of Finance many years before partition and paternal grand father was assistant secretary ministry of defence in 1940s .
The house of paternal grand father built on Faiz Road Delhi while he was Assistant Secretary of Defence in 1940s on Faiz Road named after his father in Delhis Qaaraul Bagh is , as Indians know an expensive property today.
Grandfathers youngest brother was a doctor with King Nadir Shah and Zahir Shah from 1929 to 1943 and a major in the Indian Army Medical Corps in 1945.
Two uncles were in top 3 in CSP Examination in 1950s and 1960s on Punjab quota which demands far more competition.
Another relative was the first Muslim to become an Irrigation secretary in Punjab,the first Muslim before partition.The land that the family had in 1898 in Lyallpur was less than what we had in 1947. His portrait still hangs in Punjab Civil Secretariat.
This is not to negate Pakistan which is a reality .This is just to merely state that social factors play a major role in politics
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Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." –
Albert Einstein !!!
