Nikema
January 10, 2012, 9:16pm
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Re: Pir Pagara passes away
Because I do not consider myself to know-it-all person and truely wanted to know about this person and his past, and thanks to Saleem’s and sachaydino’s reply below I have learned something about the guy.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaehi rajiun … It was a sad news.
No doubt Pir-Pagara was a good person surrounded by many corrupts and incompetent politicians. His father fought British and died fighting, hanged by British (not like others who became paid servants of British for allotment of lands and privileges). Hurs fought British for over 100 years, actually throughout Sindh was under British occupation, and never negotiated or surrendered. Just to make Hurs stop fighting, British took him hostage and moved him to UK where he stayed as hostage until early 1951 when Pakistan got him back (few years after independence). It was his men (Hurs) who are over million strong armed men fought Indian forces in 1965 and not only defended Sindh but occupied large tracks of Indian land. His men helped Pakistan fight off Indians in 1971 war too.
Anyhow, as the slogan ‘King is dead, long live the King’ … so can be said about Pir-Pagara … that is, ‘Pir-Pagara (Syed Mardan Shah) is dead, long live Pir-Pagara (Syed Sadruddin Shah … as I expect him to be next Pir-Pagara)’.
He was spokes person and loyal to dictators. Most of his life spent on conspiricies and coalition with intelligence agencies, ready to work against elected governments and also work as b-team planted by the army. Otherwise there is nothing outstanding he did in his whole life, which is praise worthy. He was biggest feudal lord and exploiter of poor farmers of his area.
May Allah forgive his sins and rest his soul in peace.