Past Perspectives & The Immigrant Experience
By Mowahid H. Shah
Washington, DC

I read with interest the column, "Perspectives from the Past" by Mr. Akhtar Mahmud Faruqui (June 15). It was particularly edifying to be made aware of the correspondence his late distinguished father, Khan Sahib Mahmood Ahmad Faruqui, had with British luminaries during the Partition era. It is significant that these eminent Englishmen saw through the shallow last Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, and his bad faith in giving a "raw deal" to Pakistan. It is good to see a context being given to the present by bringing into public light hitherto undisclosed personal archival material. This further substantiates how Pakistan was fortunate to have benefited from the prescience of the Quaid.
Also, I wish to commend Mr. Siddique Malik for his unusually thoughtful critique of the immigrant experience (June 29) in which he cautions that the elders, in dealing with the young, should not let "culture-preservation degenerate into culture-imposition".
The Link should continue to encourage the diversity of views.

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