Re: Punjab and Freedom Struggle!
Liaqat Ali Khan was Urdu speaker from Karnal Ambala, an Urdu-speaking enclave in East Punjab.
Re: Punjab and Freedom Struggle!
Why should village folk be considered "Jahil" and "Ujad"? I think these are inappropriate statements. Both Sindhis and Punjabis are loving people; particularly those of villages are very affectionate. Political opinion should not be reduced to cultural mud-slinging.
Re: Punjab and Freedom Struggle!
Urdu-speaking enclave? Come up with something better than that please. 
Liaqat Ali Khan was a Rajput Punjabi, whose main language happened to be Urdu like a lot of Pakistan movment leaders. He like millions of Punjabi’s from East Punjab gave all they had to move to Pakistan.
Re: Punjab and Freedom Struggle!
I wish Liaqat Ali Khan was not killed by a Punjabi 'host'. A traitor.
The country would have been more educated and would not have gone stray.
Migrants were better qualified to run the country's institutions in early days. There are millions donated by them and there are examples of self sacrifice (working without salary or small salary) by Muhajirs.
They had one thing in their mind.....make the separate country's decision work and show anti-Pakistanis that we can live without outside support.
My dear learn to be thankful. But on the other hand who am I preaching.............one of the most unthankful person of the country....and anti-Pkaistani!!!
Then, the decision of making/building Islamabad. We took money from outside, we looted east Pakistan's revenue to build Islamabad and the debt continued to grow.
Next nationalization happened. Private sector was discouraged further and country continued to be run by illiterate beaurocrats/politicians and useless army.
Army, ready to be bought by outsiders, ready to exploiits own people. Unable to protect a big piece of land.
Re: Punjab and Freedom Struggle!
This is what Sindhis have been asking Muhajirs to be for the last 60 years. The result off course has been MQM and ethnic cleansing in Karachi.
Deedee has been fed this hate 3 times a day. He doesn’t think before spouting anti-Sindh and anti-Punjab slogans against ordinary folks of these provinces. How unfortunate. These guys come from outside and started an apartheid system.
Re: Punjab and Freedom Struggle!
there is no question about their love and simplicity.
They were not qualified to run the country’s machinary in early crucial days.
Look what happened when un-educated people started to run the country in the name of nationalization and quota system
Merit went into gutter and ‘brotherhood’ took over the institutions. Result we see these days.
Only one thing can keep Pakistan above many others is merit system and people who are selfless and devoted.
Re: Punjab and Freedom Struggle!
^^Quota system was brainchild of Liaqat Ali Khan to help create his urdu speaking Mullahtic electoral base in Karachi. The result was the total dominance of Jamatis and destruction of Sindhis in Karachi.
nationalization was brainchild of Dr. Mahboob ulhaq, implemented by Bhatoo MAToos the creater of Islamic Mullahtic Show-Shaw-lism (socialism). The result of terrible desctruction of our industry, banks, and big name school system.
Re: Punjab and Freedom Struggle!
Keep blaming Liaqat Ali khan even though he was shot dead long time ago?
No proof yet for his role in quota system.
Maybe his soul is putting gun to the head of beaurocrats ever since he died.
BTW Bhutto is long dead too.
So go find other excuses.
Re: Punjab and Freedom Struggle!
Liaqat Ali is dead but his policies have helped Urdu speaking secure 10% of upper level Federal jobs, and 25% of coroprate white collor jobs by 1993 (the last year I could find the federal data). What's your complain then.
Table I
Province/ BPS-3 to % BPS-17 to % Overall(%) Quota
Region BPS-16 BPS-22 (i.e its share)
Punjab 67.5 62.3 67.2 50
Sindh Urb 9.98 9.6 9.96 7.6
Sindh Rur 6.17 7.6 6.24 11.4
N.W.F.P 10.43 12.4 10.53 11.5
Balu'stan 2.69 3.0 2.71 3.5
NA/FATA 1.98 3.7 2.06 4.0
A.Kashmir 1.26 1.3 1.26 2.0
Table I. Province-wise civil servants in Federal departments as on 1-1-93.
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Table II
Province/ BPS-3 to % BPS-17 to % Overall(%) Quota
Region BPS-16 BPS-22 (i.e its share)
Punjab 48.26 49.8 48.63 50
Sindh Urb 23.32 27.1 24.20 7.6
Sindh Rur 8.79 8.2 8.65 11.4
N.W.F.P 12.7 10.0 12.09 11.5
Balu'stan 4.08 2.4 3.69 3.5
NA/FATA 0.87 1.2 0.94 4.0
A.Kashmir 1.98 1.3 1.82 2.0
Table II. Province-wise employees of autonomous bodies, semi autonomous
bodies and public corporations as 1-1-93.
Re: Punjab and Freedom Struggle!
Why Sind is only province divided into rural and urban?
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Yes these days non-punjabis are president and prime-minister but they were selected from outside forces.
Old but shows how country has been running..it is still newer than your info from early 1990's.
The NEWS International, Karachi
December 17, 1997
Central Punjab holds 41 key posts
Disparity may deepen deprivation in smaller provinces
News Intelligence Unit
By Kamran Khan
KARACHI: Less than four dozen individuals from Central Punjab, who had either lived or served in Lahore in the past 15 years, are currently holding the country's 41 most important official assignments -- a situation that is bound to aggravate the prevailing sense of deprivation not only in the three smaller provinces but also in Southern Punjab, according to an investigation by the News Intelligence Unit (NIU).
The situation took a delicate turn late on Monday night when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif stunned the federal cabinet by announcing that he had decided to nominate the former Supreme Court judge and a known Sharif family friend, Mr Justice (retd) Rafiq Ahmed Tarar, as the president of Pakistan. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took the decision to appoint a Central Punjabi president against strong recommendations from his cabinet members, parliamentary party members and even his younger brother, Shahbaz Sharif, urging him to pick a presidential candidate from smaller provinces, the sources said.
The NIU investigation found that before Senator Tarar's nomination as the president, at least 41 individuals -- mostly with permanent residences in Lahore -- were holding almost all of the, what an independent observer labelled as, "make-or-break appointments" in the country. The NIU study showed that though all of these appointments were not made by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, but under his nine-month-old administration the domination and influence of Central Punjabis over the government departments multiplied manifold.
With the election of Justice Rafiq Tarar as the president of Pakistan by the end of this month, the country would have a Lahore-based president, prime minister and chairman Senate. Although Justice Tarar hails from Wazirabad near Lahore, he has lived most of his life in Lahore and is believed to be a personal friend and constitutional and legal adviser to the Sharif family. Both Nawaz Sharif and Wasim Sajjad have lived their personal and professional lives in Lahore, where their families are permanently settled.
Seniority, merit and professionalism may have been the criterion, but the fact remains that all three present services chiefs incidentally have Central Punjab background. The present Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Fasih Bukhari, and Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal P Q Mehdi had been appointed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while Chief of Army Staff General Jehangir Karamat was selected by President Farooq Ahmed Leghari. The present government handed dual charge of Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee to Gen Karamat.
When Nawaz assumed the charge of the prime minister in February this year, each and every member of his personal team at the Prime Minister's Office had a Central Punjab, particularly Lahore, background. He appointed seasoned civil servant and a scion of a known Lahore family, A K Z Sherdil, as his principal secretary. Because of his Lahore background, Sherdil was personally known to Saifur Rahman Khan, who had initially suggested his name to the prime minister.
Even before Sherdil's appointment, Nawaz had decided to appoint another former civil servant, Anwer Zahid, as his special assistant. The Lahore-based Anwer Zahid was the principal secretary to the prime minister during Nawaz's first tenure. Closest in Nawaz Sharif's personal team at the Prime Minister's Secretariat was, and still is, Saifur Rahman Khan -- the chief of Ehtesab Cell. Saifur Rahman like Sherdil and Anwer Zahid, cherished his Lahore background. "The prime minister feels very comfortable with Sherdil, Zahid and Saif. They speak his mind and the language," noted an informed official.
The prime minister not only favoured the individuals with Lahore background for top positions of his office, he invited the people with similar background even for mid-level posts in his personal setup. He appointed Rauf Chaudhry and Khayyam Qaiser as his personal staff officers and Qamaruzzaman as his personal secretary. These three personal staff members, like other senior aides in the Prime Minister's Office, have strong Central Punjab background. They not only manage the prime minister's days and weeks, but also serve as his eyes and ears.
Similarly, his Press Secretary Siddiqul Farooq has always lived and worked in Lahore and Central Punjab with no work experience in smaller provinces. The prime minister appointed another old Lahore hand and a former Ittefaq Group employee, Major General Sikander Hayat, as chief of the Prime Minister's Monitoring and Evaluation Cell. He appointed Colonel (retd) Mushtaq Taher Kheli, an individual of similar background, as his political secretary.
With the accountability placed at the top of his priority list, Nawaz Sharif decided to operate through his most-trusted Lahore aides. While Senator Saifur Rahman was placed at the driving seat, Nawaz decided to continue with Justice (retd) Ghulam Mujaddid Mirza, another famous Lahorite, as the chief Ehtesab commissioner. He appointed another Central Punjab PML leader Mumtaz Ahmed Tarrar as the chief of Ehtesab Council.
Not surprisingly, officials and politicians wanted or arrested in corruption cases from Punjab escaped the net laid by the much-dreaded Ehtesab Cell, while those arrested from Sindh faced a totally different situation. For instance, under extremely intriguing condition a corruption case registered against former RECP chairman Kabir Sheikh, a Lahore-based official, was hurriedly withdrawn. Under identical circumstances, the corruption charges against former petroleum secretary Capt Naseer Ahmed had been withdrawn.
While appointing the federal cabinet, Nawaz Sharif, once more, preferred his trusted Lahore and Central Punjab associates for important cabinet assignments such as commerce. Senior official sources conceded in their background interviews that because of his extreme closeness with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Ishaq Dar's influence reaches frequently the decision-making levels in the Ministry of Finance. Because of his Lahore and Model Town connections, Ishaq Dar has emerged as the prime minister's most trusted aide in the federal cabinet.
Dar's closeness with the prime minister can be gauged by the fact that it was he and Saifur Rahman who had negotiated and finalised the power-sharing agreement with the MQM. No PML member from Sindh was included in the team that had negotiated with the MQM after the change of government in February this year.
Other Central Punjab PML parliamentarians who received important cabinet slots included Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan (Petroleum), Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (Interior), Mushahid Hussain (Information), Shaikh Rashid Ahmed (Labour and Culture), Begum Abida Hussain (Population Welfare), Raja Nadir Pervaiz (Water and Power), and Khalid Anwar (Law). Surprisingly, the entire national security team that is reporting to the prime minister on important security matters also has the similar Central Punjab background.
The present director generals of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) shared this common background. Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmed and Major General (retd) Enayat Niazi had been appointed as the IB director general and the FIA director general, respectively by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while Lt Gen Nasim Rana had been appointed as the ISI director general by the Benazir Bhutto government.
Smaller provinces were completely ignored over Central Punjab when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif decided to appoint members of his party as heads of various government and public sector organisations. He appointed 37-year-old Shahid Khaqqan Abbasi, MNA from Murree, as the PIAC chairman and picked Khawaja Asif to head the Privatisation Commission. Similarly, Humayun Akhter Khan, the MNA from his home town Lahore, was appointed as the chief of Board of Investment (BoI).
When it came to the appointment of the attorney general of Pakistan, the prime minister once again preferred a candidate from Lahore. Sources said that before his appointment as the Attorney General, Chaudhry Muhammad Farooq had long served the Sharif family in their business and family matters.
While selecting the team of bureaucrats for his government, the prime minister apparently decided not to disturb the officials with Lahore or Central Punjab background, notwithstanding the fact that they had been appointed by President Farooq Leghari during the caretaker set-up. In a policy decision, the prime minister decided to continue with Dr Muhammad Yaqub as the governor of State Bank of Pakistan, absolving him of his responsibility in the collapse of banking and DFI sector in Pakistan in the past four years.
Similarly, he also decided to continue with Chaudhry Moeen Afzal as the secretary of finance and Hafizullah Ishaq as the chairman Board of Revenue -- both gentlemen had a Central Punjab background. The prime minister also appeared comfortable with Afzal Kahut as the establishment secretary and Mian Tayyab Hussain as the cabinet secretary.
The Central Punjab criteria apparently played a significant role as he appointed secretaries to some of the important ministries, for example he selected Mian Iqbal Fareed as the secretary commerce, Mehar Jivan Khan as the interior secretary and Gulfaraz Ahmed as the secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum. The Central Punjab may not exactly be the reason behind the appointment of Lt Gen (retd) Chaudhry Iftikhar Ali Khan as the secretary defence, but it may be the first time that no one from a smaller province is attached to any significant position in the entire Ministry of Defence.
Like in Justice (retd) Rafiq Tarar's case, most observers do not dispute the fact that many of the Central Punjab bureaucrats or politicians given important tasks in the government by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif enjoy good reputation, but they do not believe that the smaller provinces cannot offer individuals with similar reputation and competence. These observers felt that to give a truly national look to his government, particularly after the election of Justice Tarrar as the president, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would have to go an extra-mile to neutralise the impression of his being the Central Punjab government.
December 17, 1997