BJP Realises that they Cannot Ignore the Muslim Vote – Newsline

And with the Ayodhya and Kashmir issues on the boil – both seen intrinsically as much ideological issues as political ones – a Muslim from Uttar Pradesh who strikes a fine balance between his religious identity and his country with dexterity, and one who has the benefit of both, makes for good audio-visual interview material.

“India’s secularism is extremely strong. I Have lived in this country all my life. I have interacted with the people of the country …after all look at me and my constituency. Muslims constitute only 20 per cent of its population; the remainder are Hindus, but they voted for me.”

By Saira Irshad Khan

Source: Newsline February 2001

FAULTLINES EXPOSED 

·         Newsline interviewed Saleem Shervani an Indian member of the Parliament, incidentally a Muslim

 

·         Why should Newsline be interested in an Indian politician? A patriotic Pakistani newsman would like to see Shervani talk bad of India as the Indian journalists make Pakistanis say bad things about their country. But no, here the intention was to make India look good in the eyes of the Pakistanis – a project that the Newsline has taken upon itself.

 

·         Besides, it is part of Pakistan-merge-with-India campaign to talk positively about Indian secularism. It suits all the more if an Indian Muslim praises India…

Hasan Mujtaba of Newsline Destroys the Soul of Sindh

The Soul of Sindh

by Hasan Mujtaba

 

After quenching the thirst of the plains and the desert I am leaving

Oh Sindh, Goodbye to you,

Oh India, Goodbye to you,

Goodbye to you my life for there was a whole world compressed within you.

Source: Newsline January 1998

FAULTLINES EXPOSED

This is another example of subversive writings of our elite secular press:

·         It speaks of Sheikh Ayaz in secular frame who wrote against the creation of Pakistan as a conspiracy of the British. Reference his Sufaid Wehshi and his poem O baaghi

 

·         It also speaks of Ayaz as the “poet of the past, present, and future of Sindh.”

 

·         As a summation, it gives Ayaz’s farewell song which is pro-India:

 

“…I am leaving

Oh Sindh, goodbye to you

Oh India, goodbye to you”

 

Why would the Newsline publish material against Pakistan and project India?

 

Does it feel any responsibility toward their country?

 

Is Newsline fulfilling some obligation towards India that we Pakistanis don’t know of?

 

True, Ayaz has been writing such works but why did the Newsline withheld this information from its readers that in his late years he returned to Islam and felt sorry for his past life.