manlion
SENIOR MEMBER
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2013
- Messages
- 7,568
- Reaction score
- -3
Srinagar: Farooq Abdullah, leader of a party that had rejected the two-nation theory and facilitated Kashmir's accession to India, has said the current situation proves that Muhammad Ali Jinnah was right when he partitioned the country.
The three-time chief minister and National Conference president said Mahatma Gandhi had offered Jinnah the post of India's Prime Minister to avert the Partition.
"But Qaid-e-Azam (Jinnah) said in front of everybody, 'Today you will make me Prime Minister but since you have the majority, you can topple me tomorrow'," Farooq told reporters here on Sunday.
"(Jinnah then said) a moth-eaten Pakistan is better for me than to become Prime Minister of a country which you don't trust. Today it (his decision) is turning out to be right (because of) the way the country is being taken in a different direction."
He added: "We never thought (it could happen). It never entered our minds that they would change a secular country in such a way. I think it will be very dangerous for them."
Farooq had been asked about the Dalai Lama's comment that making Jinnah the Prime Minister could have averted the Partition. He contradicted the Buddhist leader and said Jinnah had indeed been offered the post but had declined it.
Farooq said he craved a "true Pakistan and a friendly Pakistan".
"I expect Pakistan (to be) free of terrorism, develop towards the future, and strengthen Saarc," he said, referring to the recent elections in the neighbouring country where Imran Khan is expected to form the government.
He said that if Pakistan gave up terrorism, the whole world including India would cooperate with it.
Farooq vowed to defend Article 35A of the Constitution, which gives certain privileges to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, to his grave. He said any move to tinker with the article would make the situation in the state too hot for the Centre to handle.
Farooq had stirred a controversy in March when he said Jinnah had not initially wanted a separate country but was forced to demand one after Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Azad and Vallabhbhai Patel refused to accept minority status for Muslims and Sikhs.
Separatist leader Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai recently said that Indian Muslims were paying a price for ditching Jinnah, for they were always being asked to prove their loyalty.
Farooq vowed to defend Article 35A of the Constitution, which gives certain privileges to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, to his grave. He said any move to tinker with the article would make the situation in the state too hot
https://www.telegraphindia.com/indi...nnah-right-farooq-252127#.W3Jo_TtcKdU.twitter
The three-time chief minister and National Conference president said Mahatma Gandhi had offered Jinnah the post of India's Prime Minister to avert the Partition.
"But Qaid-e-Azam (Jinnah) said in front of everybody, 'Today you will make me Prime Minister but since you have the majority, you can topple me tomorrow'," Farooq told reporters here on Sunday.
"(Jinnah then said) a moth-eaten Pakistan is better for me than to become Prime Minister of a country which you don't trust. Today it (his decision) is turning out to be right (because of) the way the country is being taken in a different direction."
He added: "We never thought (it could happen). It never entered our minds that they would change a secular country in such a way. I think it will be very dangerous for them."
Farooq had been asked about the Dalai Lama's comment that making Jinnah the Prime Minister could have averted the Partition. He contradicted the Buddhist leader and said Jinnah had indeed been offered the post but had declined it.
Farooq said he craved a "true Pakistan and a friendly Pakistan".
"I expect Pakistan (to be) free of terrorism, develop towards the future, and strengthen Saarc," he said, referring to the recent elections in the neighbouring country where Imran Khan is expected to form the government.
He said that if Pakistan gave up terrorism, the whole world including India would cooperate with it.
Farooq vowed to defend Article 35A of the Constitution, which gives certain privileges to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, to his grave. He said any move to tinker with the article would make the situation in the state too hot for the Centre to handle.
Farooq had stirred a controversy in March when he said Jinnah had not initially wanted a separate country but was forced to demand one after Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Azad and Vallabhbhai Patel refused to accept minority status for Muslims and Sikhs.
Separatist leader Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai recently said that Indian Muslims were paying a price for ditching Jinnah, for they were always being asked to prove their loyalty.
Farooq vowed to defend Article 35A of the Constitution, which gives certain privileges to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, to his grave. He said any move to tinker with the article would make the situation in the state too hot
https://www.telegraphindia.com/indi...nnah-right-farooq-252127#.W3Jo_TtcKdU.twitter
