Naked Lies & misleading facts: Haroon Rashid about Bhutto & Mairaj Controversy

Naked Lies & misleading facts

Haroon Rashid quote wrong facts about Bhutto & Mairaj Controversy

Playing & twisting with facts is an old common disease and Urdu/Hindi media is full of such things. Just read a current example and unlearn about such things. M M Khan criticized Bhutto, he was sent to jail during Bhutto period but he did not support neither infamous PNA or unconstitutional rule of Zia. Haroon Rashid type people cannot understand this. 

Here is the link of article written by Haroon Rashid in Dunya Newspaper at First August this year. You can read it yourself by clicking HERE

I am writing a detail article about Mairaj Mohammad Khan and meeting his friends too but meanwhile I gathered his video interviews and statements at my Blog. Those who want to know about him can visit it by clicking the below link.

Mairaj Mohammad Khan: we still miss a rational analysis which is part of the problem. 

He had resigned from the post of a Minister and gave his resignation to his leader and PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto at 10th October 1972. As you will watch in his interview, his resignation was accepted ar October 22 same year. But H Rashid linked it with infamous and misleading PNA movement. It is not the only wrong fact in his article. He gave figures of killings that looks like a usual desk work often found in such twisted writings. He wrote that 329 people were killed by the State or ruling government during PNA movement Not a single idependent writer ever claimed it. He again misleadingly narrated a lie that 200 workers were killed in Colony Textile Mill incident. That incident took place in Jan 1978 not in Bhutto times when Haroon Rashid's beloved dictator was ruler. 

"The 13, 000 workers at Multan’s Colony Textile Mills felt threatened by the official encouragement of the bosses. Since the toppling of the Bhutto government they had not received their bonus even though the mills’ production and profits were growing. Incidentally, Mughees A. Sheikh, the mill owner, had a cordial relationship with General Zia, a relationship cultivated when the latter was Corps Commander in Multan. It was perhaps because of this cordial relationship with the country’s anti-worker dictator that the millowner ignored the workers’ demands with poise.

The workers were demands were arrogantly disregarded. They went on strike on December 29, 1977. The management invited the union leadership for the negotiations. The People’s Labour Union having won the referendum, enjoyed CBA-status. On January 2, 1978 talks were held between the union representatives, Labour Department officials, martial law authorities, and the local administration.  The mills’ administration and the union had almost reached an agreement on the question of bonus but the payment of wages for the strike days remained disputed. The management was adamant that the strike was illegal and workers would not be paid for the time lost in the strike.

While negotiations were still in process, agitated workers began to gather on the mill’s premises for an informational meeting in the vicinity of the mill owner’s residence. The police were already present and ordered the workers to immediately disperse. The workers refused to budge. The police resorted to a baton charge but the workers resisted instead of escaping the scene.

As most of the workers were residing in the workers’ colony on the premises, their families joined the police confrontation too. Then the police opened fire on the unarmed workers. According to official and newspaper reports, 14 workers were killed. The PPP-organ daily Mussawat reported 22 deaths. " (Ref)