Liaquat Bagh – Express Urdu

One of our national misfortunes has also been the curriculum history that we teach our new generation, in which the facts and facts are not told, or in other words, the collective or national mistakes committed by us.

We don’t even mention them. When the situation is like this, how will we learn from our history or our mistakes, or our new generation? Therefore, in order to correct the Qibla of our history, it is the need of the hour to inform our nation and our generation about the real facts.

Otherwise, tomorrow the hidden facts will speak for themselves that history is very merciless and does not forgive anyone. How long will we hide our true and real history? Therefore cultural narcissism has to be abandoned and history written and taught under a self-made and thought-out plan has to be avoided.

Briefly, on the one hand, on March 23, 1940, the twenty-seventh session of the All India Muslim League was held in Lahore, and this historical resolution was passed in this session, in which the Muslim League set the political ideal of making the country of Indian Muslims free and independent for the future. declared the State in the following words: “This meeting of the All India Muslim League recommends that unless the following principles are included in the constitutional plan and implemented in the country.

Until that time it will not be acceptable to the Muslims.” On the one hand, on this day, March 23, there was a demand for this kind of independent and autonomous state for the Indian Muslims, but on the other hand, on the same date, March 23, 1973, the country was The opposition parties UDF (United Democratic Front) decided that a big rally should be organized in Rawalpindi because the present central government is discriminating against small provinces and this treatment is a People of a certain mindset are doing it for their own interests and it is being blamed on the province of Punjab.

Therefore, in order to remove this accusation and impression, the United Democratic Front decided that a huge meeting should be held in which the people should be told who is doing all this and who is being blamed. So all the parties should try to include more and more people in this meeting so that they can tell them and reveal to them the fact that what is happening or what is being done to you people is not Punjabi or Punjabi. Rather, you have your colleagues and sympathizers in Punjab as well. And U, D, F stands shoulder to shoulder with you.

Therefore, the leadership of each party had made such an arrangement that a large number of people would participate in this meeting. A huge procession from the former Frontier Province and the present Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under the leadership of the well-known revolutionary poet, writer and politician Ajmal Khattak departed from his province. It was Friday. Near the house of a leader belonging to the Muslim League, they were waiting for a volunteer to inform them when the procession reached and it was time for the meeting. The voice was heard.

As soon as he heard the sound of firing, Khan Abdul Wali Khan stood up and told his other colleagues that firing is taking place and we should immediately reach the assembly hall. Colleagues said that this is a welcome firing to the participants of the procession. Wali Khan said, “This is not our province, it is Punjab and now we have strictly banned aerial firing in our province as well.”

He said, “Listen, there are various sounds along with the firing.” Hearing this, everyone rushed towards Liaquat Bagh. Originally, a joint decision was made that the Jalsaiya prayer would be started after Friday, so the political activists who had come from Peshawar had reached the Jalsaiya Gah at that time. When the leaders reached there, there was a commotion, firing was going on from all sides and as they watched from the stage, the workers kept falling.

Firing was also taking place on the stage. When Wali Khan stood up, one of his companions called him, saying, Khan, sit down. Wali Khan replied that if Wali Khan sat down in this condition, then who will get up? However, a young man in another chair near them was shot in the chest and collapsed. Leaders encouraged colleagues from the stage. After the first round of firing was over, people saw that there was firing from a wall in front of them, so these people ran towards it.

The gun has been taken from him and he is tied to his turban, one of them saw that he had two guns, he was bringing two men tied. The comrades who came to the meeting came empty-handed because Wali Khan had told them not to bring weapons to Punjab because they will also take the weapons from you and they will not be able to reach the meeting. So they came empty-handed, but such bravery was rarely seen, not a single man moved from his place.

A young man came near Wali Khan, grabbed his shirt by his neck and choked his skirt and said, “You are the one who forbade us not to bring weapons with us, so now you have left us at the mercy of these wild dogs.” Wali Khan said young man, take courage and go help another injured comrade.

According to Wali Khan, “The entire leadership of UDF also reached during this time. First of all, Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi stood in front of me and said to me, ‘Khan Sahib, for God’s sake, you should sit down. If you become a target, that’s all.'” will end I said that bullets are firing everywhere, look at the field below, those who are dying are also human beings. announced, the participants of the meeting left with their dead and injured.

It was found that eighteen of the buses in which these people had come have been burnt and then when these people went out in search of their buses, they were arrested by the police and even some of the injured were arrested. Handcuffs were put on the injured lying on the hospital bed. The dead and injured were sent to their respective areas, but when the news spread in the province and the participants of the Jalsaiah could not reach their homes, people went to Rawalpindi in search of their relatives to find out about their death or life. Find out.

According to Wali Khan, “I was worried that once these funerals (dead bodies) reached their respective areas and the wounded also went back and after telling the whole story, Pakhtuns never stop taking revenge on anyone, their brothers. If you take revenge on your loved ones and relatives, how will you forgive others? Well, all of us workers stood up and participated in all the funerals and Fatiha readings, and visited all the injured.

A few colleagues and lawyers were sent to Rawalpindi to get information about these prisoners, injured and missing. Nasrullah Khan, Sardar Shaukat Hayat and others like that would establish a bond of brotherhood and sympathy with these Pakhtuns and the government had decided to add some fuel to this kind of fire and fan it so that it would burn. More flare ups. And I firmly believe that if I and other colleagues had not gone to sympathize with the affected people, visited them and recited Fatiha, had not taught them to act with patience, then the result could not have been any other than that between the provinces. The fight started. And some people wanted to make Punjabis and Pakhtuns enemies of each other at home.

Till that time we were wandering among the dead, wounded and prisoners, suddenly someone told us that the whereabouts of Ajmal Khattak Sahib is not known. We had received such reports that when the meeting at Pindi Liaquat Bagh was dispersed and the comrades were wandering around in search of their buses, the one who was alone among them was caught and killed by the people of the PPP. So then we started looking for Ajmal Khattak Sahib in Pindi, but later it came to know that he has left the country and reached Afghanistan.

The poet was a man, he was emotional, he could not bear the massacre of innocent people. Arbab Sikandar Khan Khalil told me that Ajmal Khattak told me that this country is no longer suitable for the noble people to live in. Hanif Rame had told this story that he was the Chief Minister of Punjab at that time.

He said that I proposed to the government that eighteen buses belonging to the poor and working people of Frontier Province were burnt, so we still claim that we are comrades of the workers, so if the government allows They will give ransom and compensation to these people, but unfortunately the government strongly opposed their words. The main purpose of such a long story is that we should inform our new generation about the real history of our country and avoid repeating the mistakes made by our rulers and powerful forces in the past and learn from them.