Dear Mr Salauddin: These
are my comments on the socalled forecast made by
late Maulana Azad that have been "revealed" by
Arif Mohammad Khan of Madhiyia Pardesh (former
Central Provinces during British India).
A fomer colleague from Ahmedabad also sent me
the same story and in its comments someone had
described the late Maulana as a Nostradamus and
my comments disputing this attribute is made not
to belittle the great scholar-politician of
yester-years but to set the
record straight and discourage the likes of Arif
Khan who has since Indira Gandhi's era try to
carve a place for himself in the Indian
politics.
I hope you will circulate my observations in
your next
bulletin. Regards, Mehmud Ahmed - Brampton-ON
December 19th, 2009 at 5:38
am
Whether Maulana Azad was a Nostradamus or not is
not the question. The important points in this
socalled interview dug out by Arif Khan are:
1. What was the age of Shorish Kashmiri at that
time? Was he old enough to gain the confidence
of Maulana Azad?
2. Did Chattan exist in 1946 – a period when
Pakistan was just a demand and the formation of
a South Asian confederation of three federating
units was on the cards.
3. In 1946 Shorish, in his teens was a paid
worker of the Majlis Ahrar and accompanied
Attaullah Shah Bokhari and Sheikh Hissamuddin on
campaigns against the All India Muslim Leagues.
I met him when he came to my
home-town of Dera Ismail Khan to work in support
of Syed Makhdoom Shah Banori,
a candidate of the Congress on one of the two
seats Frontier Province had in the Central
Legislature.
I became a regular paid-reader of Chattan when
it started publication from the Vera Hotel,
McLeod Road, Lahore soon after partition. I do
not want to go into details as how Shorish
managed to occupy an evacuee property as it is
irrelevent to what Arif Khan has claimed. The
files
of the weekly magazine are still available in
Lahore Public Library and can be scanned to
ascertain the truth. Mehmud Ahmed
(Brampton-Ontario- Canada)
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