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Jamaat-i-Islami criticises Jinnah for Partition

The Jamaat-i-Islami which had opposed the creation of Pakistan on the grounds that it would divide the Muslims of the sub-continent seems to have revived their stand after half a century.

Addressing students in Loralia in Baluchistan one of its senior leader, Seyed Izatullah Shah, said that at the time of partition Jinnah ''treacherously'' left behind more than half the Muslim population of the sub-continent in India.

A few years ago, Awami National Party leader, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, had stirred up a hornet's nest by stating that Jinnah had divided the Muslims in the subcontinent in three parts.

A book in Urdu Kath Putli and Their Toadies (puppet and their toadies) recently published in England by a Pakistani national Mohammad Anwar Khan, questions why Pakistan was created in 1947 and what stable political system was given to the Pakistani people? ''This system is neither Islamic nor democratic. Then what did Jinnah create 50 years ago?'' the book asks

Anwar Khan states that Jinnah considered the Kashmir question a simple one because he thought that all Muslims should come to Pakistan and all Hindus should go to India. This meant he did not consider Muslims left behind in India as Muslims. These Muslims included Maulana Hussain Ahmed Madni, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Sheikh Abdullah. But Jinnah, who drank, ate pork and did not say his prayers, could not be described as a Mulsim, Khan says.

Urdu daily Khabrain had described Anwar Khan as another Salman Rushdie.

In Hyderabad, Awami Tehrik's chief Rasul Bux Paleejo said Jinnah first raised the slogan of the two-nation theory to divide India and then dropped it after the creation of Pakistan.

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