PARTITION: Tape 27 Writer 255MODEM Mod Date & Time 255MODEM May 12 08:43 TAPE 27 Side A GHAZI SALAHUDDIN ... editorial director, Jang newspaper group, and former newspaper editor; bespectacled Muhajir intellectual and journalist; born in UP; 50+; interviewed in smart, book-lined new flat in Karachi - 5 Jan 1997 8 - born in Farukabad ? district of UP in 1938; but father in railways and posted in Bombay; later opted for Pak 50 - [moving to Pak] 'you cd look at the opp it provided ... it was a new co ... ' 65 - 'we left Bombay on 15 Aug 47, and I have memories of going in a taxi from our hse to the rail stn, and the way being blocked by proc'ns and celebr'ns all around'; went first to UP, then to Pak 72 - came to Pak in March 48; 'for those months we were in our home town, I have memories of being in terrible fear of being attacked; there was more fear than in act viol ... but then people used to stand guard all night ... young people ... with spears and sticks; there were rumours of which vill had been attacked, ... so that was a time of fear and uncertainty' 86 - came to Karachi in March 48 98 - father had been sched'd to take a train which was massacred - changed trains by chance 122 - part of mother's family still in UP 143 - 'there are times in history when it becomes a rev'ny surge in one direction, that no idividl they can stand [up to] ... the tide flows in one direction, and there's no stopping it' 150 - sailed from Bombay, and stayed with father's friend in Karachi, then got a small plot, then an unfinished hse for govt servants, then a squatter's settlement later regularised, 'then of course things began to improve' - and father got a job in private sector 164 - 'life was a struggle ... ' 175 - 'i think the Muh's saw themselves as makers of hist when Pak was being created, and they have become the victims of history; I think the reasons for supp'g the m'ment for Pak was difft in difft areas, and for Ms of diff't categories ... there were three diff't kinds of M': minority elite, oppressed majority, slight maj and not oppressed 182 > (goes thro pro-Pak motivation of these diff't groups: UP elite, Bengal and Punjab - latter being the last to join Pak movement) 209 - 'the v word muhajir has religious overtone ... when you become muh you do something that the holy prophet had done; and cos there was a vacuum in Sindh, these mhs occd govt position and had opp to grow; but the Sindhi popn, the host popn, there was linguistic and cult divide ... and ult when rel passions subsided, culture became a major issue; it's my belief that in normal times, culture is large than rel'n; it's lang, it's