Left Narrative & Rise of extremism: Radio talk by Comrade Shaukat Ch @MastFM103/Lok Lhar

Left Narrative & Rise of extremism: Radio talk by Comrade Shaukat Ch @MastFM103/Lok Lhar

When and how we adopted extremism at State level? How PPP of ZAB, founded at Lhore, failed that plan of Gen. Yhya to impose Jamat e Islami in 1970 yet that lobby remained active and how state again drifted toward that plan during Gen Zia period is an important forgotten episode.
Comrade Shaukat Ch was born in Raja Bazar, Pindi in 1950 and did his matriculation in 1967 and joined NSF in college. He had joined Karchi based communist group of Comrade Tufail Abbas who was active in PIA and was close to Ait Marshal Asghar Khan & Noor Khan.
Shaukat Ch has exposed first State effort to misuse Islam at public level at a time when Pakistan had 22% non Muslims in the country. Gen. Sher Ali Patoddi was architect of that plan whose Anti India Pro religious fundamentalist cum Jihadi books had been published from US. How Bhutto along with some leftist groups (mainly Pro China) defeated that plan is a history. Numerous leftists like Sh Rashid, father of socialism, Sh Rafique, Mahmood Ali Kasuri, Khushid Hasan Mir etc were among those who had joined PPP while Professor group, MKP and Tufail Abbas groups supported it. Jamat e Islami and rightest fundamentalist lobby within and outside State was against Bhutto. yet some religious groups under Ghulam Ghus Hazarvi etc opposed jamat and their anti socialist propaganda. Pro Moscow leftist lobby ws against bhutto too and their leaders were Baluch, Pukhtoon nationalists and Karachi based jamal Naqvi group.
The plan was failed in 1970 but in 1977 it was restarted by the State and rest is history. Better read and listen yourself.

پنڈی جمے شوکت چوہدری ہوراں اوہ پاکستان وی ویکھیا ہے جتھے مذہبی انتہا پسندیاں دا نشان وی نہیں سی تے سکول وچ ہری چند دے بنائے چھولے ہر کوئی کھاندا سی۔ انہاں این ایس ایف تے طفیل عباس دے کیمونسٹ گروپ نال کم کیتا تے پیپلز پارٹی انہاں سامنے بنی تے اوس دور وچ ریاست جماعت اسلامی دی شکل وچ انتہا پسندیاں دا ’’جن‘‘ آپ بوتل توں کڈھ رہی سی۔ بھٹو تے اوس دے سجناں نے چوناں وچ جماعت نوں ہرا کے ایس بوتل دا ڈھکنا کھلن نہ دتا پر ضیا اوہ ڈھکن کھول دتا تے اج پورا ملک اوس نوں بھگت رہی ہے۔
شوکت ہوراں دی گل بات دے ٹوٹے پڑھو تے پورے پروگرام دا لنک تھلے ہے اوس نوں سنو۔
link of news regarding talk ,
http://www.wichaar.com/news/119/ARTICLE/34079/2018-12-06.html

Link of radio program video clip
https://youtu.be/wbxhAUgQoiI


Complete recording of radio talk with comrade Shaukat Chaudhry (recorded at MastFM103, at 22 November, 2018.
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0M2ZMMscp7W

The First Women VC of Pakistan died quietly , The Apathy by media & intellectuals

The First Women VC of Pakistan died quietly , The Apathy by media & intellectuals  

95 years old Dr Kaniz Yousaf quietly died last week in the Capital. Although she had promoted many students and many of them are at key posts silence on her death shows the apathy, prevalent in Capital especially.

Fixed Allama Iqbal date of birth
She was also a part of the core team along with Faiz Ahmad Faiz (as quoted by Nusrat Javed) that had fixed date of birth of poet philosopher Allama Iqbal (9^th November) in 1976.

Zia & mindset against Iqbal & Jinnah
But during General Zia’s dark times, the institute was ruined deliberately. As its head, Kaniz Yusuf had published a forgotten work of Syed Zaidi Alhuma, Quaid-e-Azam aur un kay Rufaqa, based on 13 rare interviews of personalities who had met the Quaid. But the establishment of Zia was against such material.

Lhore in 1940s, Lady Thakardas & liberal women
“Till mid-1940s, Punjabi Muslim families had started sending their girls to colleges and many of us did not wear burqa.”
She did her matriculation in 1941and had joined newly formed Islamia College Kopper road, Lahore where Principle was a talented Christian woman Thakar Das. Bano Qudssia was her college fellow who was a newly convert from Hinduism to Islam. Begum Altaf Guhar was among her teachers. Her ideals were out spoken & liberal Begum Jhan Ara Shah Nawaz & resilient Salma Tasadaq Husain. 

Link of Article Published in News On Sunday at Dec 2, 2018, click below 
An intellectual who stood her ground

Unheard and forgotten story of Partition & Single largest Punjabi Districts

Dr Yusuf was born in 1923 in Lahore near Qila Luchhman Singh (Kasurpura) behind Minar-e-Pakistan. Her grandfather Sufi Peer Bakhsh was a linguist and her father was a headmaster in Patti near Kasur (now in Firozpur, India). Till 1947 both Kasur and Patti were included in district Lahore. Firozpur was included among those half a dozen Punjabi districts where Muslims were in majority (above 44 per cent) and till August 14, 1947 they were adamant on being included in Pakistan but twisted Boundary Commission not only included them in India but also cut Patti from district Lahore.

Kaniz’s father could not think of such barbaric act and lost his memory. I interviewed Kaniz in 2006 for a left journal and she said “my father lived for 10 years with us after 1947 but he had no current memory. He remembered the holy Quran and events before 1947. He could not even recognise his son.” The story of those single largest Punjabi districts is almost missing in our stories about partition.

She liked the American lifestyle that was quite opposite to the colonial pride

About Bhutto and its times 

Equally critical of secular, progressive and religious groups, Kaniz admired Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his independent thinking. “America was against Bhutto from day one when Bhutto was foreign minister of Ayub.” When Bhutto had resigned from Ayub’s cabinet, she was among many young intellectuals who joined him. At that time, she was principal of Women’s College at Pindi.

It was Bhutto who had appointed a woman as Vice Chancellor of a University in Pakistan for the first time — that was Kaniz Yusuf from 1972 to 1976. She tried her best to lay foundation of a modern higher education institute in the newly-formed Quaid-e-Azam University. National Institute of Pakistan Studies (NIPS) is one fine example to understand true spirit of Pakistan Movement but thanks to twisted Islamisation of Zia, Pakistan drifted towards religious extremism. “Religious lobby has changed Iqbal and Jinnah as per their extremist interpretations.”

This institute (NIPS) is a true example of shattered dreams. 

Struggle & Suspicion 

“I took retirement from education department in April 1979, (the month Gen. Zia hanged Bhutto with help of courts) and went to London and in my absence a case was launched by dictator against me regarding Al Zulfiqar”. Like Pindi Conspiracy case, it was a usual trick to fix enemies in false conspiracy cases and spread rumors of compromises about accused people. 

Interview of Kaniz Yousaf for Awami Jumhori Forum 2006

Link of the interview

http://ajfpk.org/show-art.php?artid=&bname=AJF-29&type=Art%206&image_id=1

Thanks to her over ambitious but talented younger brother, she suffered a lot.

You may disagree with her but due to her struggle future historians & scholars will remember her

Raza Kazim Interview about conspiracy against Gen Zia & BBC twisted man

Raza Kazim Interview about conspiracy against Gen Zia & BBC twisted man

This is just a transitional phase in which a few of our generations will go down the drain. I have seen four generations, including my father’s, go down the drain and I have no expectations at all from the generation of today either and I have every reason to believe that the next generation will be the same as well. We’ve tried many things, most recently the ‘civil society’ but nothing really has worked. 

we were free to have a counsel of our own choice. I was admitted to Mayo Hospital Lahore during the case because I fainted many times during the proceedings after having lost 55 pounds during incarceration. I was there for at least 3-4 months and did not choose a counsel myself but my wife asked Aitzaz [Ahsan] and he went there twice. Two of the plotters became approvers, five were convicted and the rest, including myself, were acquitted.

How #BBC corespondent played the dirty game, expected from him due to his track record.
Mark Tully, the BBC star correspondent in the subcontinent has spent many years in the region. When I was in Attock, he came from India and met my wife. He was the source of this information as he told my wife that RAW had been involved in the later stages of funding. This information is also corroborated by Ali Mahmood’s wife Billo who herself told me that they had gone to Delhi for a wedding of a Sikh friend’s son and some of them had met Indira Gandhi, including Khar.

Read complete interview 
https://www.thefridaytimes.com/25022011/page16.shtml?fbclid=IwAR1PELmwHf_s1keTx4DgJVbBKQ7XzemX2Ivehwp3ppb-osTyrhykOq6Z4vM

Ranjit Singh & his political sensibility Part 2

Ranjit Singh & his Political Sensibility Part 2

In order to understand last 250 years history of Punjab, Sindh, KyberPK, FAtA, Kashmir, Hazara, Kabul, Jammu, Batistan & Baluchistan it is essential to revisit about Lhore Darbar & Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Without understanding trade, trade roots (both land & water), governance patrons, Who is who in Lhore Darbar, international powers of that period it is not possible to revisit our common past.

''لہور دربار'' کو قابو کرنے کی نئی مہمیں شروع ہوتی ہیں جس کی منصوبہ بندیوں میں دلی کے پرانے عربی کالج کا بھی کردار رہا جسے جدید سطح پر استوار کیا گیا تھا۔ 

یہی وجہ ہے کہ اس نے میکٹاف سے بڑے پولے منہ سے استفسار کیا، ''تمہارے خیال میں نپولین کو لہور دربار تک آتے آتے کتنا وقت لگے گا؟''۔ میکٹاف سمجھا کہ رنجیت نپولین کے خطرے والے جال میں آ گیا ہے، اس لیے تھوڑا نخرہ کر کے بولا کہ چھ مہینے میں۔ اس پر رنجیت سنگھ نے کہا پھر تو  فوری فکر کی کوئی بات نہیں۔ یہ ہشیار جواب سن کر میٹکاف چکرا گیا اور کلکتہ لکھے خط میں مہاراجہ کی سفارتی سمجھ بارے لکھا جو ریکارڈ کا حصہ ہے۔

تاہم رنجیت یہ جانتا تھا کہ اگر فوری خطرے یعنی انگریزوں کو، کسی ایک طے شدہ حد تک روک لیا جائے تو  وہ زیادہ محفوظ ہو جائے گا۔ جب 1809 میں میکٹاف رنجیت سے معاہدہ کرنے دلی سے آیا تھا تو رنجیت دریائے ستلج کے پار علاقوں میں سرگرم تھا۔

میکٹاف نے لکھا ہے کہ رنجیت کوئی بھی فیصلہ کرنے سے پہلے مشاورتی کونسل سے بات کرتا ہے جس میں فقیر عزیزالدین اور دھیان سنگھ جیسے زیرک وزیر شامل ہیں۔ اس نے یہ بھی اعتراف کیا کہ رنجیت مشاورتی کونسل کے مشورے پر اپنے فیصلے بدل بھی لیتا تھا۔

''میکٹاف مشن ٹو لاہور'' نامی کتاب میں لکھا ہے کہ دھیان سنگھ انگریزوں سے کسی بھی قسم کا معاہدہ کرنے کے خلاف ہے جبکہ فقیر ذرا دھیمے انداز میں بات کرتا ہے اور انگریزوں سے لین دین کو رد نہیں کرتا۔ رنجیت دونوں کے دلائل بڑے غور سے سنتا ہے اور ہر ایک سے بہت زیادہ سوال کرتا ہے۔

Link of complete Article part 2

http://sujag.org/lahore/feature/lahore-darbar-ranjeet-singh?fbclid=IwAR3xoSpygmHQJs3nK122M4W8pQ-I3pLBa8iiPpPSaePwuw8XYApvs0thsAY

Link of Part 1

https://punjabpunch.blogspot.com/2018/11/why-we-cannot-ignore-ranjit-singh-part-1.html

Why Left is confuse? & not ready to revisit? Senior Comrade Raja Velayat Radio talk (FM103)

Why Left is confuse? & not ready to revisit? Senior Comrade Raja Velayat Radio talk (FM103) 

Comrade Raja Velayat born in 1947, Lhore is now a days running Social Democratic Forum, as its founder yet he had joined left circle since 1950s because his father ,an officer at Railways, due to Jehlum background had relations with Comrade Mirza Ibrahim, famous Railway Union leader, also belonged to Puthohar region. Raja Velayat did his matriculation in 1964 and joined as activist in left circle in late 1960s.


Video Clip of Raja Velayat
https://youtu.be/7TtlDj-f9a0

کھبے دی سیاست دے وادھے، گھاٹے بارے گل بات لوڑی دی ہے کہ ایس توں بغیر اگے دا رستہ نہیں مل سکدا۔راجہ ولائیت نیپ بھاشانی، سوشلسٹ پارٹی توں بعد اج کل سوشل ڈیموکریٹک فورم بنائی بیٹھے نیں۔50 ورہیاں توں راجہ جی لیفٹ سیاست نال جڑے نیں۔تساں کجھ چوندیاں گلاں پڑھو تے پورے پروگرام دا لنک اخیر تے دتا ہے۔
http://www.wichaar.com/news/119/ARTICLE/34078/2018-11-23.html


Link of the complete Radio show recorded Lhore Studio MastFM103, at 15th November 2018 in Lok Lhar weekly Show
https://vocaroo.com/i/s07JnbbuhI8a

Why we cannot ignore Ranjit Singh? Part 1

Why we cannot ignore Ranjit Singh?

Colonizers failed to annex our lands yet after his death EIC of England annexed Qallat, Qandhar, Kabul, Sindh, Kashmir and finally the Punjab within 10 years.

When he founded his government, Lhore Darbar in 1799, English East India Company had annexed many lands from Bengal to Delhi yet due to power of Lhore Darbar colonizer could not annexed Sindh, Kabul, Balochistan, Kashmir & Punjab for more then 3 decades.

Colonizers largely played with numerous conflicts & contradictions smartly and many are still prevalent and its selective use is common among South Asians. Concocted Hindu period, Muslim period misleading narrative had been exposed by Romila Thapper well but regarding our lands they added Sikh period and also used Sikh Muslim, Punjabi Pathan contradictions. One example is 18 century history. To Non Muslims (Sikhs & Hindus) colonial narrative had coined the term Muslim Invaders and had declared Nadir Shah and Ahmad Shah Abdali etc among Muslim Invaders and to Muslims living in our lands they used terms like Sikh Rule, Sikha Shahi. Late 19th century colonial officers had dig more and smartly link it with Punjabi Pathan contradiction. For Pathns Ranjit was declared a Punjabi usurper & for Punjabis Ahmad Shah Abdali was declared a Pathan invader. In such smart moves, they wanted to forget Kabuli Mal like Hindu Punjabis who were with Ahmad Shah or Sultan Muhamad (elder brother of King Dost Muhammad, a Barakzai) who was with Ranjit. As Kashmir, KhyberPK, Balochistan, Sindh, Kabul and Punjab region was a Muslim dominated area so such narratives played vital role largely.

Read the first part
http://sujag.org/lahore/feature/raja-ranjeet-singh-punjab-british

13 نومبر 1780 کو جب رنجیت سنگھ پیدا ہوا تو کرناٹک جنگیں (1746 تا 1756) ہی نہیں بلکہ پلاسی (1757)، پانی پت (1761) اور بکسر (1764) کی جنگوں کے بعد انگریزی فوجیں جس دھرتی کا رخ کرتیں وہاں قبضہ جما لیتیں تھیں۔

مقامی طاقتیں یعنی مرہٹے، افغان، بنگالی، مدراسی سب اس گوری آندھی کے آگے بے بس ہو چکے تھے۔

اک موہوم سی آواز حیدر علی کی تھی جس نے جنوبی بند کے کچھ علاقوں میں عَلمِ بغاوت بلند رکھا۔ 1782 میں اس کے بعد اسی عَلم کو اس کے 31 سالہ بیٹے ٹیپو سلطان نے تھاما مگر 1799 میں وہ مارا گیا۔

یہی وہ سال ہے جب تخت لہور پر رنجیت براجمان ہوا اور اب اس عَلم کی نگہبانی اس کے ذمے تھی۔

یاد رہے یہ وہی دور تھا جب احمد شاہ ابدالی (سدوذئی) کے مرنے (1772) کے بعد قندہار (ابدالی کا دارلحکومت) بارک ذئیوں، سدوذئیوں، ہزاروں، قزلباشوں وغیرہ کی آپسی لڑائیوں کی وجہ سے محلاتی سازشوں کا شکار تھا اور عراق، آرمینیا اور آذربئیجان تک پھیلی ایرانی زند بادشاہت بھی زوال پذیر تھی۔

روسی، فرانسیسی اور انگریز اس پورے خطے کی طرف للچائی نظروں سے دیکھ رہے تھے تاہم پنجاب میں اک مردِ حر نے مورچہ پکا کر لیا۔

IQBAL by Sajjad Zaheer (1945) , Spiritual & popular voice of South Asian Muslims

IQBAL by Sajjad Zaheer (1945)

Spiritual & Popular voice of South Asian Muslims

This article was written by communist leader Sajjad Zaheer when he was editor of CPI magazine Qumi Jang and it was published in 22 April 1945. Interestingly Sajjad was first secretary general of CPP, nominated in side lines trickily of 2nd CPI Congress held at Calcutta Feb1948. He went to Lhore as central office of newly formed party was there. He returned to Bharat after release from infamous Pindi Conspiracy case. That case was planned against communists in March 1951, at the eve of first general election for Punjab assembly. Why establishment planned it? what were the motives? Now after 67 years one can said that there were multiple benefits internationally as well as locally linked with that plan i-e 

1- Ayub Khan fixed his enemies within Army especially those who were like young Turks not ready to become part of cold war, had reservations against cease fire at Kashmir Front in 1948 and had soft corner for those security men who defected during INA (1941-44) and Jhazi rebellion (1946).   

2- State gave impression of Communist threat to attract US attention in the time of infamous McCarthyism. At that time, especially after WW2, Cold War (Planned) had started between two camps and including Pakistan & Bharat many countries wanted to join US camp. So Pindi conspiracy was a planned fake case in that regard. 
3- After 1949 Chinese revolution there was a debate in Pakistan how to respond on it because Pakistan has a border with China too. Before Chinese revolution CPP had published a pamphlet in its favor but British trained bureaucracy banned it. As par 1933 intelligence record  (Published in India) British intelligence had fears of spreading rural base communism in South & South East Asia and wanted to stop it at any cost. Mian Iftiqar uddin was in Muslim league and he with many were lobbying for Pak China relations. So Pindi conspiracy case was used against China too. Yet in-spite of many odds Mian Sahib led a high powered Pakistani official  delegation at 3rd anniversary of Chinese revolution in 1952.

4- Establishment at that time took fatwas from Islamists to show how they could combat communism (an old British plan coined during 1920s as mentioned by Keith Jefferey) and started a campaign especially after Objective resolution (March 1949) and raised it during first session of Progressive Writers public meeting (Nov 1949). So it was first mulla establishment nexus much before Anti Ahmadi riots of 1953) that created ample spaces for religious extremism. Interestingly at that time Sir Zafrullah, an Ahmadi, was foreign minister but he did not react against that policy but in National assembly record his 12 pages long speech is present which he did in favor of Objective Resolution. He himself was anti communist. Those who were at forefront in misusing Islam against Communism included those religious intellectuals and journalists who had opposed idea of Pakistan till 1948 and one such example was editor weekly Chitan Shorash Kashmiri, guru of many journalists in Pakistan.

As Pakistani State had declared Iqbal as national thinker so many communists not only in Bharat but Pakistan especially from Karachi disowned Iqbal. 
Today an article published in Dawn The lost verse: Why is Iqbal going out of fashion? but writer failed to understand why some communists were against Iqbal and what was its background? He wrote
But what is most significant and ironic is that Pakistan’s leftist groups in their private moments appeared to be utterly enamoured of Iqbal’s verse, listening to it practically as a clandestine treasonable activity. They indulged in this activity despite their formal and vocal ideological rejection of Iqbal’s ‘philosophy’, whatever that is.
Although leftists like Zahir Kashmiri, Mian Iftiqar uddin, Safdar Mir, C R Aslam and more importantly Faiz did not oppose Iqbal but quote it.
Sajjad Zaheer article remind us that how due to bad policies of State they made Iqbal controversial largely. 

This article is recently published after many years of gape and prove of bankruptcy of reds too.

Rauf Malik autobiography Surkh Siasat published by jumhori publications and Admad Saleem edited book Hamri Tahreek e Azadi aur Takhliqi Amal published by Sang e meal reproduced it.