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PARTITION: Tape 28 (cont)
Side A (continued)
Writer
255MODEM
Mod Date & Time
255MODEM May 12 12:57
ABDUS SATTAR AFGHANI
... gentle, bearded, and skull-capped; Jamaat Islami; former Mayor
of Karachi (1979); born in Karachi in 1930; from Afghan family
long settled in Karachi; int'd at JI office in Karachi - 5 Jan
1997
i/v starts at 135
145 - [ind day] 'I remember v much ... the anno of ind was
b'cast from Radio Pak, there was a rejoicing in the
entire city of K'chi; and every Pak'i, every M of Pak,
every non-M of Pak, they were happy cos now they are now
as an ind state, and we have no slavery here, we have
no Brit regime here ...'
168 - 'I heard from radio that anno of ind of Pakistan ... every
comm'y there were happy, and they were rejoicing' (was
27th day of Ramadan)
216 - 'in entire provice of Sindh [pre-47] was M majo prov; in
Karachi we had some edge on Hs; but in bus, industries,
govt service, they were in a big quantum in the hands of
H; ... they were highly educated people, and Ms were not
so educated ... pol we dominated thje province, but in
educan, trade, business, we were v backward'
235 - [Muhajirs] 'when they came here they stayed in old haji
camps here, schools were vacated, and even in the main
roads, in footpath, they had made their own hutments ..
this was a big problem in 47'
255 - 'I have seen with my own eyes in K;chi that hundreds and
thousands of ovens have been made in Kchi on pavements,
in mohallas, and they made bread, ... to that refugee
camp of N Delhi from Kchi ... refugee fund was raised by
the govt of Pak'
283 - [Muhs] 'they were in a bad condn. they were uprooted and
they had no source of income; they were unemployed
persons ... '
298 - 'in 1947, the popn of K was about 350,000; in the v
first census in 1951, popn was about 600,000 ... in
1961 about 1.3 m ... in [1971?] 2.6m ... I have told in
various conf'ces ... that K is the fastest growing city
of the world, there is no doubt ... in 1947 popn was
350,000 ... now the popn is 15m, near about ... local
popn after 10/20 yrs in the minority'
340 > Biharis started coming to Kchi in 46
366 - [Jinnah] 'he had God-gifted qualities which the leader of
a nation sd have ... he was a good orator'
to 405
Side B
24 > crisis affecting local Hindus in Jan 48
40 - they were requested not to go; 'many Hs are living here
now today'
75 - 'in my opinion Kchi - I talk esp of K - is a v friendly
city, cos in K there are in pre-partn, there are many
comm's which came from outside the prov and settled here; |
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