Table Of ContentESTABLISHED IN 1973
Vol. XIX 1991 No. 4
CONTENTS
1. SAVES IND-HSAVE SINDHNIA TION
MOHAMMAD IBRAHIJMO YO
2. BANANAE PIDEMIICN S IND-H IMPORTEDD ISEASE
OR DELIBERATSEA BOTAGE
M.H .P ANHWAR
3. ADDRESSA T THEF UNERALO F
PROFESSORD R.T OIVO PIHKANEN
BY SAYIDG HULAM MUSTAFAS HAH
4. PRESSA ND TERRORIS-M EDITORIALS
PRINTEBDU TU NPUBLISHEADN D UNREAD,
INTELLECTUAASLP HYXIATION
STARR EPORT
5. PRECISIONISR ONY
SYEDAA ISHAJ AVERY
6. NATIONAELD UCATIOCNO NFERENCE-1989M ARCH
SAYIDG HULAMM USTAFAS HAH
7. TRAGEDYO F INDO-PAKISTWAANT ERSA NDT HE
ROBBERYO F INDUSW ATERS-SOME IMPORTANT
DOCUMENTS
SAYIDG HULAM MUSTAFAS HAH
8. THEG REATA RTE DUCATIODNE BATE·
MARGARETM OORMAN
9. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
A) A MINISTESRL IPOSR LIES-F:. A LI-K ARACHI
B) THEI RONG ATESO F KARACHI
- A.R EHMAN- HYDERABAD
C) MAD ARABS HAIKH-SA . REHMAN- HYDERABAD
D) KASHMIRA GAIN -AR.E HMAN- HYDERABAD
E) SINDHO NE MILLIOYNE ARSA GO
- GOHARA LIS HEIKH-H YDERABAD.
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Star Edito;ials
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SAY IDG HULAMM USTA FA SHAH
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MOHAMMEDI j3RAHI]M O YO
MRS.M OEENAH IDAAYT ALLAH
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SINDHQ UART·l;:RLY .
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ESTABLISHED IN 1973
Vol. XIX 1991 No. 4
CONTENTS
1. SAVE SINDH-SAVE SINDHI NATION
MOHAMMAD IBRAHIM JOYO
IT _. - i I
2. BANANA EPIDEMIC IN SINDH·-::1MPORTED DISEASE
.
OR DELIBERATE SABOTAGE
M. H, PANHWAR
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3'. AJ DDRES-.S'. AT T� Hfl E FU(N ERAL O) 1"F
PROFESSOR DR. TOIVO Plt-JKANE�
_,
BY SAVIO GHULAM MUSTAFA SHAH
4.· PRESS AND TERRORISM -EDITORIALS
l?R!NTED sur· U�PUB�ISHED AND UNREAD,
'') INTELLECTUAL ASPHYXIATION .
STAR REPORT
5. PR.ECISIONS IRONY
SYEDA AISHA JAVERY
NATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE-1989 MARCH
6.
SAVIO GHULAM MUSTAFA SHAH
7. TRAGEDY PF INDO:PAKISTAN WATERS AND THE
ROBBERY OF INDUS WATERS-SOME IMPORTANT
DOCUMENTS .
SAVIO GHULAM MUSTAFA SHAH
'Ii
8. THE GREATARTEDUCATION DEB'ATE
MARGARET MOORMAN
,._t
9, {,ElTERS TO THE �DITOR: -
A). A MINl�TJ:R SLIPS 013 LIES-F. ALI -KARACHI·
B) THEJRON GATES OF KARACHI
"::-A. Rl;:HMAN -HYDERABAD
C), MAD ARAB SHAIKHS -A� REHMAN -HYDERABAD
-D) KASHMIR hGAIN ..,.-A. REHMAN -HYDERABAD·
E) SJNDi-J QNE MllJJON YEARS AGO
..-GO HAR AU SHEIKH' -HYDERABAD,
PAKISTAN'S ONLY INDEPENDENT ENGLISH
JOURNAL OF STANDARD AND SCHOLARSHIP.
This was a moment of ecstasy and dfi�is!..;SWegha'd�swayed her
A �A
lissom fornl: towards him- g ��A�'P�Y� �r����t�; ��Rpen�td his
arms and gnpped her �µd�s.ne-l.\(1;1��1!v� .��t,e��L��: fran�e.1 He almost
broke her ribs as he crushed her.:sknder1figure·against·hjs own iron
frame and kissed her eyes her mouth, her throat and her hair. He was
mad at· that mcfmeflt,-mad -w'.i1Rf Ptfi)t8iJS" 1-it[sAtfftct'8;qthat bSpell
Possession C!fp�3roviiip e2y15f'�,,16J Lj)iQ1�6rt{Jfo� ciiegfi They stood
engulfed m' - th· e. wh1' rlw'm. d �o·t fI P.nf�u:Tm(r{aGn� I\p·a J,sA�:.l.J,C? I Jli. � J8 �. I 7llfi� ental and
intense, the strongest force the world has known, since the scales
·
fell off eyes· of the first man and the fitst�woinan1;Jli1llre1days:when
the fig 'leaf covered the require�eIJ.tsf01conventionalifyC;
. SrhlAell ·'.w 1�a:;s1:' m. - -e..:-x·t. re·.-m.-�-li)'<;- 1..q �t� £1f>0.S�11J/!J.1,;JQuITUJT�I1 Jt/�·c'.'lo'.)f; ,rp�_�.� s1. on. She
displayed her beautiful eyes lachymore and calm, she let her head
incline towards-'liim':1I=I.er boayracguiescent, ¥.nooacot:rwann colour
had dy-edf�ailhtH�lo&lf2��f?Tife{:�ft 1fr�b'at' 1k$afitr 0'6s�fh�4f�r lips were
parted, her breast rose and fell., tumultuqusly.?:. -rI·t.i; :s:leMemI IXed1 ";le very nerve
m• that lovfiguere lwasy cra ,,v<:m;:;" 1'\g"1 Ato I GrUethu rnllr, i't o hrt!v>m .\.J I1 tr P.1s.G finally the
body which triumphed:.":-:....: hen1e:y�es1c.\¥aiv.ed; 1a11.dr�all�d in ��umb
eloquence "come and take me." 1'1AMFl:J·:�·r•l • .�fli\;-•) ·: " ·
She was petrfldeyresc sea?even ;thHtign �he�clothes looked
simplicity lftsgir: ·:Eifeijtlittrg��hw�ith� he�r :?M����1jW·(iMrinq�y
��1�)a���gSf.�l>,U�l!fn���afe
beauty. The artist who llad had some
. sleeBl��s,,:J,Ijgpt_s.;,.aRd.;vy.(}!; Jrojh_Q.��.cJ;A�c.f.Q.pJ ihe!i,��9.il�.9 looked so
simple ....f!.tev:en:a11steredt·,:w.as1th�veny:\per_ fectioneof good taste -
she looked so swee��et--·so ·proudJ.antt3so: feminine? Hers was
brilliant and comafaiifilng histidity�� I.it 1.1\� i'
·
1 SINDH.QUARTERL Y
SAVE SINDH ,
SAVE THE SINDHI NATION
Mohammed Ibrahim Joyo
The fand of Sindh through the ages is a 'known part of mother
earth, and is, therefore, geographical reality. The Sindhi people,
taking their name and that of their language from this ancient land,
and livfog there all along.in majority, are a member'Of the fraternity
of peoples ;similarly placed elsewhere on earth, and are, therefore,
just as those ·others, a national and.historical reality. Every other
group of people - ethnic, religious or any - have to accept and
live in reconciliation with their minority status in Sindh, even as
similar minority groups do in other countries throughout the wc)i:ld,
tenjoying, of course, therr basic right to equal citizenship and full
·protection of their cultural rights.
' I'
The Ail-India Muslim League's Paki.sfap.'R.esolutron of March .
1940, later made a part of the League's Constitution; and ihe Quaid
e-Azam's August 11, 1947 inaugural address ·10 t�e .Pakistan:
Constituent Assembly, re-defining 'nation'" and 'nationalism' in ;
secular terms, and lils. clear pronouncements\ and most solemn''.
assurances on the. place and statu's, particularly of the Hindu anq
Muslim' minorities .irt t�e two post:..partition "countries" of the·
fodian sub':.continent, specjfically recognized a�.c! e9nfirmed the
p
abqve.stated osition of autonomy and sovereignty of t�e ,Sindhi
people as also of the other constituent peoples in their traditional
homeland� in P�stan. ,Indeed, as regards this 9asic position of
autonomy and sovereignty in the conceived political set-up vis-a-vis
the component territories and their: peoples in Pakistan, there were
and could never be any two opinions:
,,,
And wl�at splendid vistas, indeed, of p&ace-, -harmony ana
1
prosperity, and also of the best possible ne!ghbourliness, could have
opened up before peoples..lhus., freed from the prison'-house ·of
n�ti�ns· that the British Indian Empire had latterly ,grown into, had
SINDH QUARTERLY 2
that position of promised autoqomy and sovereignty been afforded
to peoples in Pakistan, and also, in the rest pQhe sub-continent as
was very much validly called for there too! But that, sofuehow, was
not to be to start with, with the resul.t that bnth the countries have
had to face a highly determined, almost an endemic, national
upsurge of their· peoples, which so gravely threatens tod•tY their
stability and eyen very existence as states.,
, I �
The Britjsh' intruderL- merchah�t, soldier- and priest 011
- ·
arrival. on the Indian sub-fOnt1 inent found 'it br?ken intq ,piece:s a§
always happens when empires break :and religions putrefy. ,
, �
Tne sub-continent of India, with vast .territories· "'ana
bewildering variety of colour fllld cree.d, language and cuJture, could�
from the start, hold together as one,, �mly as an Empi�e l;'he,
. •
Maurya Empire (about 320-184 B.C.), to great part of the sub
a
continent, associated with the .names of Chandragupta and Ash0ka,
the _great, was one. such Empire. The Gupta Empire (abopt A.D.
320-500), linked with the name of VJkramaditya and .other& <;>( his
great dynasty, was the second such Empire. And th� Mugha�
Empire. (in greater part of the period.A.D. 152p-�857) was the third
·
one of the kind. Th� Britons arriving at. the �cene in thy)8th
century,, with all the vigour and self-confidence of.national renewal
attained through the fir�t ev�r industrial r.evo. lutiQn ofEqrope, �et
out emulating their immediate predecessqrs, the. MQghuls,. in
buiJding the empire for th�mselves,· and su. c.c;�eded in. their tas� to a
degree f� _great�r than any previously, attained.
As modern people and pragmatic administrators: ,tbe, British
Imperial rulers floated po�itical organizatio_!'ls among various strata.
of their subject' P.eople in India; to serve as shock.-ab,sorb�rs, .tr�cers
and even as tools of execution of their political policies and
programmes. The Indian National Congress was p�rh�ps, the first
sucl} organization, followed some years later by the All-Inc:Ua
.Muslim League. Operating aga!nst the paporama o[an Empire
-·
so vast yet so monofithic and �ompact - ihese oi'g�nizatiops,. in
p
time, started dreaming of their own political e� 'ires, a�d lo<;:>king,
3
enon in�its own."w·ay-;0"upon th� mitional question. in-•Iiltfra with a
'totalitarian' eye. For the Congress· it w.as the ·question of 'Ind!_an�,'
andJor the Muslim League that of 'Muslim' ·nation. Tirey-failed to
see.that, by_ their time, in the/'little1Europe1' .as Napoleon Bonapa:rte'
had called India while dreaming oL playing th·e· role· of ,.ff
rev.olutionary Alexander in the East .(as he thought he had done in
rop :n1 �h�n
Eu e), �the�· 9at�bn's. ore �eal, th�1 h ,sh and blooa one�: the1
�
m�r� nebular Indian �d-.Muslim natio.ns,_ had come up on the scene
�
demanding freedom) and deserving re ogriition. Both the Copgi:ess
add .League, Ji9wyver, in this respect toq, were not th,at 1JPµ¢n__,
.
ignorant �ither.
_,,-�Part ��oip t9e !eader�pip 6f�Cbmmu:n'ist:party �6.f In9ia who,
ttying i9 soµn� more palatable, shouted ad-infinitum �he wo.rd�
'.nationalities'* 'patfon'alities'., Maulana Ob�idqlfah SinQhi', 'having;
�
��,sply returned from hi$" de�ply �Q.etrating travyls in th,e '.�o�i7t
Union.and �is yea:s.of exil.� Jn tlie }lighly,nation_-rr1in�ecJ.$audi
Arabia, called the peoples� 9f, fodia - the .Bengaljs, ·aujratis;,
� �
peharis,, I(ashmirjs,,,Tamils, Pun1�b'is� Fukhtoons, Bafochee�
h
Sindhis etc., a�-ful fledged nations: Qua. id-'i-A�a.m bimself:"9ame.
,yecy near to recogqiZi�g tJie· reality of natiqnsJ� �he �u�-.!;oilijn��tf
when he addressed 'the famous March 1940 sessfon of .Alf..:.. India
f\l<. J ul slim .Ll �e a•g ue �Lta hore. In his pr�sidential astdr�� ss, f�(eL rrinI g to.. •
"the most leading state�men o( Great Brit�in 'havi.ng .a_sseited and
·
�xpry�sed. a-hotpheat th pe.as sage of, tjme will hl!rmon�s�. �ti�
•
inconsistent elemeinn Itndsia 11; he.1�aid: ;"Wbat- the uJ1i\ah
�g ovepi,, ment q( Jn\ dfoira, ly?e�Os had.', fa,i l�d, t! o� ..j iii.a � c�l )l 1..� vtf�an_riqt))x
.
realized b,y thimep "' osition-of;, a Central 'Federil Goyern...,, merit'. Itls
�i n1 co�ceiv�1 ble tha�ht� f• i, ao.r.t' l}t "1e ·• )Y.�� �if. ;at,g• ,c>; v• e• i;mpep,s.q� t .
pohstituted qan .ever pommaryd a. )Villaindµ Jgoy .�1 'obediei;ice
fhroughour the sub-contiQent by i?qdou� ,rzµtionr;zliti�� excep_t ·by
means of armed force Behind it.: .... :. ......... 'The problfn eInmdia is
not of an inter-.commtt"JZ al character bq",.t mariifestly of, ,an, inter ..
{!� •a t•feq.J ntrzl o,n� et, andt' n• :� mI �st..- �• �� f�. i:e�•t• rd as.-. s.uchl .7-� .-r11 ' ·;···�Jl (.,lf� t�I yI. :J?n• t�•1 ��
Dovernmaeren retall y earnest and smcere tose cure p.eace .and
m
µ Q q
�happiness of the people�of tffe ;s b-C !}tinefff, t,Oh�e!'q,oyu r se: p�ri.
� ��
to us. all ik)to allow the major l)a�{o(is .separ te �hoµJ�lands.
'
dividing India into autonomous natidn'al stales:" · � � 3
SINDH QUARTERLY 4
The ·Pakistan Resolution adopted by the All-India Muslim.
League session, the next day, which stipulated the retention and
enjoyment 'Of autonomous and sovereign ·Status by the constituent
units of the two states in Pakistan,. reflected these definite, wise and
truthful views. of Mr. Jinnah.
�
I� his fiext presid�nti'al address to die All-India· Muslim
League session at Madras ih April 1941, Quaid�i-Azam made his
concept of the national question in ·India even clearer. Framing'the
qµestio� to the huge audience of over 100,000 persons: "Can such a
s}rste1n (of one central government in India) ever work or succeed
when you have two different nations - indeed more than two
totally difef rent na#ons -in this sub-continent?" he said: "In this
land of yours (meanivg the Madras �rovince), there is �nother
rtation, the Dravidians. This land is really Drav.idastao:. .. The .Only
way for you is to come into your own, live your Qwh life according
to your own culrure and according to your own lang,uage - thank
God that Hindi did not go very far here-and your.own history is
·to go ahea.d with your ideal. I have every sympathy for you and I
shall do all I caq to supJ,Jort you to establish Dravidastan. The seven .
percent of Mus!ims wfll stretcl! their hand of friendship to you and
. live with you. on 'lines Qf equality, justice.and fairplay ... " (While. at
this, one could '·almost feel tempted 'to ask the question: Did not the
case ofDravidasfan as pleaded here by Mr. Jinnah, apply exa· ctly to:
.the �a�e of Sindti vis-a-vis Pakistan a,s proposed - only
substituting the Muslim minority in Dravidastan by the Hindu
minority in Siildh? Tbe only point of depart�re or differel}ce' from
the. similitude of two cases that comes to the mind is that .Sirtdh, as
a nation, was. being offered autonomous and sovereign status i�
Pakistan, while the fate of Dravidastan was not then so definite in
the Indian Union - but there too when time for Dravidian peopie'
came they probably got,by far a better deal!).
'At the' end c;>f June,,1947,. only one and a half months prior to
the birth· of Pakistan, a question was placed before th� Legislative
Assembly of Sindh, under Britisq Government Plan for the final
transfer o(power �o the peoples oflndia: "Whether the Constitution
�
·.of the future· state of Sindh sho l be fr� ed.
� �
SINOR QlJAR'faJ.U.. Y:
(�) In fhe (then) ef(ist\ng €Hindustan)' ·C�m.stinuional
Assembly,,
. �-
or--(b) lo 'a new and separate.· (Pakistsm), CoPstinHiQoal:
Assembly. · ,., ' · _ .
. " 7 • �
And the then Legislapve Ass.embly of Sindb fonnally-opt�d
J ,
for the second alterQative..
, , , . " . �
· On· that occasion, I had;ad.... �d res¥s ed- ,.-a-\ n o..,p eft� n -lett�t, d•a ted.. Jlu ne 2-S,1'
1947, to the Sindh Assembly members, and aO:idng other-.things,
had conveyed them my sentiments thus: ' · 1
'
" .... Hi�torically, we .the .people of SiQdh will be withln our
righ'ts if w� now resumed our sovereign status antl independe�t
existence as a people, which we" lost to the British Power, only
·
.about 100 years ago:...... ·
-
- r - -�
" .....T he' con·gress and the league to .which you all, am¢ng
,
1
yourselves, prefer loyalty, both ·having n<>w .agreed to the latter·
proposition, and those of. you with pronounced leanings for
Pakistan now commanding a clew-majority in tbe assembly, your
g
decision in regard, to tlr� alternatives· offered:. hf a fore one
CO\lclusio.n. Any other decision of yours w'ould. indeed lie
'tantamount to thwarting the mantlate of your electorates.... )
. " ..... Hon: Sirs, it should not b'e necessary for any .one now.fo.
remind 'YOU of the fact that the irresistible popular urge to freedom
from foreign yoke was based on even greater and in_tenser aspiration·
'for a better, 1a happie,r and a nobler life. UptilYnow, the,peopl� were
being made to believe that such a life was denied to them and, in its
place, a life of excruciating poverty and 'l111-round degradation was·
ordained· upon them either by the Imperialist Englishman or,1among
themselves1 by the 'accursed' Hindu or the 'malecha' Musalman.
Such ·easy &capegoats and convenient bogeys would no. more -be
available anywhere ·now for· diverting the people's attention :from
their real problems and for blunting their will to apply appropriate
·
methods to solve the· same. The Imperialist Englishman is teady to
quit as soon as you think it safe ,to tell him to do so. The 'Hindu
versus the M. uslim' problem should a'.t least now exist no· more� as
. .
SINDH QlJ�TERLY' 6
.
. .
. wliat waslsaitl'tb be tfie-.solutitin -of it ·has afreadyl been appli�d. Any
.
more attempts at playing the Hindu against di� Musalman or toe'
Musihnart -ag: a'ins· t -the <Hindu, 'here,. or' anywfiere else, wHether by
way of self-protective camouflage or of aggressive exhibitionfs nt
would only be inviting an unprecedented disaster in the yet un�ettled
affajf's'of the-two youhg sfates'6f Pakistan and Hinausfan� Time ha�
now come when not only the sincerity df'the'1 hitherto ·mere
professions should Jinq its tangible pr9ofs�in copcrety a�tions, but
when utmosdp)agination, �ncf stat�sivansh!p-q{ a sterliqg·ch�ciGt�t
will have to be shown by all thqs�}n whose hi\n9� fate has, fg; tb�r
present, plac�� tJ1e de�tinj�s��,f �ur peopl�.
, J �,
J 1 "�Hgn: Strs, ,the in.articulate masses of your people,.under the�e
cirGymst�nces, e�pe-ct of youAba_t you. wouJcf be good enough" to
charge, on their behalf, your four representativ.es.onJhe Constituent
Assembly with a clear cut mandate on the lines urged upon above.
May the :trust and -faith of �y�our pe.ople in you beget, in an equal
Il!��sµre,, symp�t1y1 , love and soJicitilde· fo� .th�m in<��our minds!·�-,
.;-. "' ....... • r ,...., .r-.fl ... ..J>. t> 11
What could be wortP. pa.rtk:ular note. in. the contexLof the·
·-_ 1
que�tign PU! t9 the)�indh Asse.11.1bly memb.ersjn Juµe 1947, even as
la!e a�, �oday: O;e._, gver f6qr decades after Jh� ,event)' is that,,
excepting tlJe SJn9h.Legislatiye Ass�mblya�.a.iwhole, and members
of West Punjab and East Bengal Assemblies, and of .the Quetta
Municipality JlJJd�some leading Sardars of B�lochista'.n (the Province
.Qf N.;W.F.J\ an�Hh�·djstljpt_ of Sylh�t_irtAsaam:w.ere off�redthe·
<;hoj�� s�p�a.tely· by ple�bis.Git�), no such questiorr was-,put fo any
Qther pr�vjnc� qr·:3:fea Qr p�_opJe JnJhe. Suo-Contiqe._nt. A.11.au_ then.tic:
memb�r" of :M.Q.IyL in .Sindh is -.on recor.d to have .claimed
sometim� ·11a,c� tliat_all the Muslims in lndiahav.e a"righi to enter:
Pakist�!J."·a. .of claimJ'.f��ciJi.zeoship.·. The Jegal a.nd, constitutionah
position, howev�J� ·tJ,itn.s;ou_hto"""be that none·from-outsideJ>akistan,
{I{, :£>
Q,q,t �yen-a_ :re(Qg<;e" from� ri,t�. �:'.else,wher.e, 110.t to-say a Muhajir
(imll}igrJint), has !lhY claim:·��sii�h a, right. That was exactly why
�9on.. a_fter th� first \inforesed'n waves ·of evaouees· from Indi?-'and
Pakista,n ;i_ftex; AugµsrJ4. 1.947-subsided, ·th� two prime ministers;
of t\l.e tWQ-c;oqntries, NebIJ.l and.LiaqatAli, struck'a·pact on .March
-
S,_ 195Q.,t.<;>.::it.he �ffecti Jh�.r th�v.c. _eJortb.'.Jh� people (M�slims or
