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Sohail Ahmad
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IN MAY 1950, PAKISTAN’S law minister, Jogendar Nath #Mandal, confidentially told an Indian reporter that most Hindus in the new country’s eastern wing felt they had no place in #Pakistan and were determined to leave. “I have asked them to wait for a few weeks more and (1/16) Image
that I too am prepared to accompany them to India,” he said, the only #Hindu member of Pakistan’s federal cabinet. “It is only a matter of time before the last Hindu reaches #India from East Bengal.” He lamented that “every #Muslim feels that there should be no Hindus (2/16)
left inside Pakistan,” and pointed out that after driving out the Hindus, Pakistan will not be able to live in peace with India.
#Mandal had been appointed to Pakistan’s first cabinet in 1947 by the country’s founder, Muhammad Ali #Jinnah, who, through the appointment, (3/16)
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