Talk:Muhammad Ali Jinnah's 11th August speech

How did Jinnah spell his first name?

I have proved it several times on this website, and here is the evidence again:

Here is a link which has a scanned copy of a post card he sent out to commemorate the Karbala tragedy's 1300 years. http://www.ya-hussain.com/int_col1/others/1942imgs/majin.htm Teabing-Leigh 07:34, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Which part is disputed

Instead of vandalising the article, I request Nobleeagle show us which part of the article is "disputed" ? Because as it stands the article is completely historically true. I am about to quote references.

Hindus

There were many things wrong with the statement that I edited out. Here are the facts

1. Jinnah's first law minister was a Hindu i.e. Jogindranath Mandal and Jinnah, by all accounts, did not envisage an exchange of population. On the contrary he made every effort to keep them in Pakistan. After him several things happened, but this article deals with his speech and vision- which we believe if implemented could have stopped the exodus of Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan.

2. Hindu Majority Areas of Punjab were already vested from Pakistan a Congress' insistence. The number of Hindus who left Pakistani Punjab was far less (3.2 million) than the number of Muslims (5.5 million) who left Indian Punjab.

3. Jinnah's Pakistan in 1947 consisted of East and West Pakistan. The erstwhile East Pakistan which is today the Peoples' Republic of Bangladesh has close to 14% Hindus.

4. The census of 1981 and 1997 - coming as they did after the Islamisation of Pakistan- have been widely discredited. Large pockets of Hindus live in Sindh which go unrecorded. Even so assume that Hindus are less than 1% even goes against simple mathematics ... reported Hindu population is 2.8-3 million. Total estimated population of post 1971 Pakistan 155 million. Hence even officially the number is higher than 1%.

5. Finally, Pakistan was not proclaimed Islamic Republic in 1947. Pakistan under Jinnah was the Dominion of Pakistan. Pakistan was proclaimed Islamic Republic in 1956 but was otherwise an ordinary - I daresay- secular state because it did not have a state religion. It was in 1973 that Pakistan became an Islamic state with state religion Islam and in 1984 that it obtained an exclusivist character.