itle PARTITION: tape 7 Writer 255MODEM Mod Date & Time St 255MODEM Apr 02 15:03 R* TAPE 7 Professor JAMALUDDIN NAQVI interviewed in Karachi, 1 Oct 1995 born Allahabad, cl932—3; came to Pakistan 1949; joined Communist Party of Pakistan C1951; on politburo C1962-90, and acting secretary for years; jailed first in 1954, and on other occasions me 1980-86 in Jam Saki case; main party ideologue -left 1990 [seems to have been recorded with Dolby off] Side A > time in Allahabad; not pol active, thos sympathies with CP-aligned students' federation 20 > in 1949, left India with parents; active on left as student in Karachi 50 > first arrest, and involvement in party activity 80 > CPP organisation underground, and split with E. Pak party 110 > influence of Palme-Dutt and CPGB 'was v much in India, and those of our leaders who came from I had that influence, but with the div'n of the co in communal lines, things became very different; the most marked diff between I and Pak, maybe in some parts of Pak before partn there were areas where the CP was a mass force ... but what I have seen is only that there were some CP workers ... there was no red area, as you find in Cal'c and some other areas in India, so our party was not a mass based party that way'; and many of workers were in minority before partn, who migrated 135 > changing line in mass party v diff't, 'in Pak it was not that way ... our party 140 > party largely pro-Soviet, while Pak pro-Chinese 163 - 'quite a no of [CPP] imp leaders were muhajirs' 168 - 'in that early period, I'm sorry to say that we had no reins [with the CPI]; and sometimes when we were angry we used to joke in this way that prob our I cdes thoghte there is a sea after Amritsar and they don't care what is happ'g in this co' 175 - after partn, m'ment flourished most in Karachi - with many writers, student leaders and TUsts who were muhajirs; but had changed by 75 195 - [re CPI and Pak] 'I know that our party changed its line and earlier it forced many people tp join the ML; I don't say that was senseless ... but that is a period in which I was not active' 204 - hold of rel'n greater in areas which became Pak, perhaps hindered party 210 - CPP line on Pak, 'Pak is there ... and our duty is to forget this qn of whether Pak sd be there or not but work for the benefit of the people of Pak ... we used this word, that partn is a legacy of history* 243 - occasional differences with CPSU 260 > party view on Afghanistan (basically, pro-Soviet with reservations) 278 > imp of Jam Saki case, meant that 'best workers of the party were either in jail or out of the country', but generated publicity and goodwill for the party; and continuity of the party not broken; 'for the first time