09-22-2006, 06:59 AM
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Second thoughts, Schuaeb ? ...
appologies for not checking this space, didn't realise the ball was in my court.
To pick up from where we left, now you are just twisting my words,..
1) It is a fact that the British Empire gave way its colonies as an after effect of WW2, having depleted in terms of manpower and resources. The Crown promised British India,. a quick independence in case the colonies fought along side the Allies. A promise it full filled.
It is also a fact that had WW2 not been there, we would still have independence perhaps a decade or two later,. perhaps not in this civilised manner.. perhaps a war ? a second war of independence, perhaps of what happened in Algeria with France or the Dutch in Indonesia.
But to put it all on our ex colonial masters plate is just not doing justice to the strife of Indian and Pakistani freedom fighters,.. If there was no question put forth there would have been no answer !!
2) I have not defeated the two nation theory by saying that Pakistan was created for the Muslims of North West India and Bengal, this is what the father of the 'Two nation theory' believed, Sir Dr. Allama Iqbal in his Presidential address (of the All India Muslim League) at Allahabad on 29 December 1930 , and I quote
<b><i>I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single state. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated Northwest Indian Muslim state appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of Northwest India."</i></b>
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Iqbal#Revival_of_Islamic_polity
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Second thoughts, Schuaeb ? ...
appologies for not checking this space, didn't realise the ball was in my court.
To pick up from where we left, now you are just twisting my words,..
1) It is a fact that the British Empire gave way its colonies as an after effect of WW2, having depleted in terms of manpower and resources. The Crown promised British India,. a quick independence in case the colonies fought along side the Allies. A promise it full filled.
It is also a fact that had WW2 not been there, we would still have independence perhaps a decade or two later,. perhaps not in this civilised manner.. perhaps a war ? a second war of independence, perhaps of what happened in Algeria with France or the Dutch in Indonesia.
But to put it all on our ex colonial masters plate is just not doing justice to the strife of Indian and Pakistani freedom fighters,.. If there was no question put forth there would have been no answer !!
2) I have not defeated the two nation theory by saying that Pakistan was created for the Muslims of North West India and Bengal, this is what the father of the 'Two nation theory' believed, Sir Dr. Allama Iqbal in his Presidential address (of the All India Muslim League) at Allahabad on 29 December 1930 , and I quote
<b><i>I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single state. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated Northwest Indian Muslim state appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of Northwest India."</i></b>
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Iqbal#Revival_of_Islamic_polity
