Hamid Mir
A friend asked in a very painful way why are you opposing new provinces? Khaksar replied that I am not opposing new provinces but am only requesting that new provinces be formed in accordance with sub-clause 4 of Article 239 of the 1973 Constitution. The assembly of the province in which the decision is made in favour of a new province must have a new province. The friend said in a very unwise way that whoever opposes new provinces will suffer a lot. Then this old friend laughed and said that if we find a way out through a new constitutional amendment, then you will not object? I also laughed and said that brother, who am I to object? You can change the constitution as you wish. My friend is frank and coincidentally is also a minister of the Muslim League-N. He said that we do not take any decision of our own free will, whatever we do, we do it in the national interest. The matter is over.
A few days later, while I was still alive, I simply requested in a vlog that new provinces should be created in Pakistan, but not to take away their identity from Sindh and Punjab, because the word Pakistan represents Punjab, Afghanistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Kashmir, Sindh and Balochistan. In response to my polite request, some patriots sarcastically asked, who told you that the word Pakistan represents four provinces? When Pakistan was formed, East Bengal was also included in Pakistan, so why was Bengal not represented in the word Pakistan? Only those who are completely unaware of history but consider themselves to be wise can raise such a question. By the way, the word Pakistan was first used by a Kashmiri journalist Ghulam Hassan Shah Kazmi, who applied to the Deputy Commissioner Abbottabad for the publication of the weekly Pakistan in 1928, but the word was first used as a separate state by the name of “Pakistan” by Chaudhry Rehmat Ali in 1933 when he wrote a pamphlet on behalf of the Pakistan Movement titled now or never – this word was originally pakstan, it did not have an “i” in it, later the “i” was added to represent Islam and it became Pakistan. Chaudhry Rehmat Ali included the entire Punjab including Delhi in “Pakistan”, i.e. the land of the Holy.
He also included Afghanistan, i.e. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir, Sindh and Balochistan, in this new country. He had proposed a separate country for Bengal and Assam called “Bangistan”. The resolution passed by the All-India Muslim League in its annual session held in Lahore on March 23, 1940, did not include the word Pakistan, but this resolution demanded the establishment of “states” rather than just one state comprising the Muslim majority areas of North-West India and East India. The All-India Muslim League was against the partition of Bengal and Punjab. When the Muslim League became convinced that Bengal would be partitioned due to the alliance between the British government and the Congress, a resolution was passed in Delhi in 1946 in which the Prime Minister of United Bengal, Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, announced the inclusion of Bengal in Pakistan. It was this Suhrawardy who was declared a traitor by Field Marshal Ayub Khan in 1962 and imprisoned. In 1947, East Bengal became a part of Pakistan, but in 1971 it separated from Pakistan and became Bangladesh.
My only request is that the Sindh Assembly in 1943 and the Punjab Assembly on June 23,1947 gave decisions in favour of Pakistan. If new provinces are to be created, then they must be created, but do not take away the identity of those provinces that decided in favour of Pakistan. Do not give the example of India in favour of new provinces, where there were 9 states in 1947 and today there are 28 states and 8 federally administered units. There is a huge difference between the population of India and the population of Pakistan. Even today, the population of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is 240 million, which is equal to the total population of Pakistan. The population of Bihar is 130 million and the population of Maharashtra is 120 million.
In comparison, the population of the largest province of Pakistan, Punjab, is over 120 million and the population of Sindh is around 60 million. The situation in the two provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan is already bad and now there is chaos in Azad Kashmir as well. No such step should be taken that will allow Pakistan’s enemies to take advantage of this and get busy in stoking the fire of hatred in Sindh as well. The Pakistan that Chaudhry Rehmat Ali proposed included Indian Punjab. The plan for “Bangistan” that he presented included the Indian state of West Bengal and Assam. Don’t forget that Sindh is still included in the national anthem of India. This anthem was written in 1911 and the plan for Akhand Bharat is even older than that. The intentions of Hindu extremists are not hidden. Against these intentions, Chaudhry Rehmat Ali presented a plan for not only Pakistan but also ten new Muslim states including Bangistan. He also gave the idea of a Pakistani Commonwealth consisting of these ten Muslim states, which was actually a violation of the plan for “Akhand Bharat”. Chaudhry Rehmat Ali had strong objections to the establishment of Pakistan in 1947 without East Punjab, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir, although Quaid-e-Azam had achieved this fragmented Pakistan with great difficulty. Chaudhry Rehmat Ali was more of a thinker than a politician. In 1947, his plan was not difficult or impossible to implement, but in the light of the treatment of Muslims in India today, Indian Muslims can revisit Chaudhry Rehmat Ali’s thought. Chaudhry Rehmat Ali presented a written plan for ten new Muslim states, including Pakistan and Bangladesh, between 1943 and 1946. I have read all this material very carefully. He presented the plan of Hyderabadistan for the Muslims of Agra, Oudh and other areas, Farooqistan for the Muslims of Bihar and Orissa, Siddiquistan for the Muslims of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, Moinistan for the Muslims of Rajasthan, Osmanistan for the Muslims of Deccan, Mapalistan for the people of Malabar and Madras, Safistan for the Muslims of Eastern Sri Lanka and Nisaristan for the Muslims of Western Sri Lanka. He included Patiala, Nabha and Faridkot in a separate Sikh state and named it “Sakhiya” or Sukhistan and also gave “Hindustan” to Hindus which included Hindu majority areas between Delhi and the Yamuna River. Chaudhry Rehmat Ali wanted to thwart the plans of Akhand Bharat and Ram Raj by establishing a commonwealth of ten new Muslim states in South Asia. Some people today would call his thinking unrealistic, but he was actually resisting the Akhand Bharat plan, the map of which is displayed in the Indian Parliament today. According to the thinking of the RSS, the Modi government wants to conquer the entire South Asia including Pakistan and Bangladesh and forcibly convert the Muslims, Christians and Sikhs here into Hindus. You must create new provinces in Pakistan but be careful of the enemy’s plans who will try to take advantage by making you fight among yourselves.
