PARTITION: Tape 28 (further cont) Side B (continued) Writer Mod Date & Time 255MODEM 255MODEM May 13 14:33 BABAR AYAZ ... a journalist, now also a businessman and TV entrepreneur; ex-CPP; a 'muhajir' of sorts, from a Punjabi family which migrated to Pakistan from Bombay; self born in Pakistan; said in chat that muhajirs are increasingly viewing partition as a mistake - tho wouldn't commit himself that far on tape; big, voluble, very pleasant - interviwed at his TV production company's office in Karachi - ? 5/1/97 i/v starts at 343 346 - [partn a mistake] 'I think the muhs have started feeling this, on the basis that the new gener'n among the muh's - the one which has taken birth in Pak - they have started emphasising in an ethnic form, which shows they do not bel there is one nat'ty based on religion as their ancestors bel'd; the very fact that they bel in ethnicity negates what their ancestors bel'd, and what they sd they migrated for' 357 - 'I wd say by option I'm a Sindh, not a muh' 360 - 'I think one of the problems of Pak is that it has to correct its whole basis; ... it was a major misstaement when we sd 50 yrs ago that there can be a nation on the basis of religion; and the events of history has proved there cannot be a nation on the basis of religion' ** 367 - 'the fact that the younger gen'n has started talking in terms of ethnic issue, that muh's are a separate ethnic gp, shows that they are not contr'ng to the initial thinking of their ancestors that there is one ethnicity, one nation, on the basis of rel'n in this co; and for which their elders at least sd that they are migrating for - tho the basic reason was not that for migrating to Pak' 377 - 'in spite of all that, I think deep down they know that they wre the benfeficiaries of partn; deep down ... socially, econ'lly, no matter what they say, are better off than many other ethnic gps in Pak' 381 - 'when Pak was made, they were the ruling classes ... then grad'ly they became the junior partners of the Punj's; duriiig the mil govt, cos theft basis was Punj ' i and Pasht'n, they shared power mainly with the Pusht'ns .. and muhs started feeling that they were nowhere in the scene any more'; reaction against reduced access to govt jobs to 400 - ENDS