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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