পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড).pdf/৬১৮

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582 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম সংবাদপত্র তারিখ Arab Writer Exposes Bangladesh News letter 7 July, 1971 “Jinnah’s Heaven London : No. 8 ARAB WRITER EXPOSES JINNAH'S HEAVEN” The leading Arab newspaper of Beirut “Al Shaab” (9 June) carried the following front-pate column by one of the most respected Arab-world writers, Muhammad Nakkash. “Had the late Mohammed Ali Jinnah come to life and seen what is happening in Pakistan today and in what way his great dream is coming true, would he be proud and happy or regret what he had done? Five million Pakistanis from East Bengal have fled from Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s heaven after seeing it change into hell for them they have fled to West Bengal in India. They preferred an enemy country to theirs... They preferred displacement, living in tents or in the open rather than remaining in their homes. They even preferred hunger and cholera to death in the hands of their co-citizens... and the enemy opened its arms to them. This is some of the fruits reaped by Muslims out of a Muslim country improvised for them by Mohammed Ali Jinnah and his supporters. It is the embodiment of evidence that the element of religion cannot be a base for foundation of a state. It is geography (land and neighbors), language and a suitable regime which are the strongest foundations. Pakistani Bengalis found refuge and shelter at the hands of India Bengalis while they found fire and gunshots from their co-citizens (West Punjabis). What is the fault of East Pakistani people? The President of Pakistan told them to have elections and they did. He himself was supervising the elections. The elections, which were extremely honest and democratic, resulted in the victory of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his party. There were two democratic alternatives to take place: whether to transfer Pakistan into a Federal Union in which the eastern section would be headed by Sheikh Mujib as Prime Minister and the western section by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who won the elections there; or Pakistan to remain in its former form and the winner of the majority of votes in parliament (who is Sheikh Mujib) to become Prime Minister. Neither of the two alternatives was followed. Those who had power in their grip in West Pakistan have instead resorted to force of arms instead of will, and thus there was catastrophe. The pretext was that the Army was to crush the secessionists. In fact, East Pakistan did not incline towards secession except when it was proved to her that the regime in the country did not depend on the will of the people but on the will of domineering group living one thousand miles away. Who approved of living within such a country? Whatever the case may be, it has been certified that Pakistan’s entity in the form wanted by its founders and supporters is not fit to remain. It is an artificial construction and any artificial thing is doomed to vanish.”