People’s unity and solidarity: The people of India and Pakistan – indeed, South Asia as a whole – wish to live together in peace

ACTION FOR A PROGRESSIVE PAKISTAN invites you to a PEACE AND SOLIDARITY VIGIL IN UNION SQUARE

Please join us for a silent candle-light vigil to commemorate the victims of the recent attacks in Mumbai and elsewhere in South Asia. As victims of terror ourselves, we stand in solidarity with the innocent people of Mumbai and India in calling for peace and stability in our countries and in the region. We call on the governments of India and Pakistan to work together to eliminate this violence, and to restore normalcy to the lives of ordinary Indians and Pakistanis, who are the real victims of these continuing attacks. The people of India and Pakistan – indeed, South Asia as a whole – wish to live together in peace. Please join us in putting forth this message of people’s unity and solidarity.

When: Saturday, December 13th, 4:00 pm, Where: Union Square NORTH (16th Street) – across the street from Barnes and Noble. Please bring a candle.

Cosponsored by Coney Island Avenue Project and Concerned Academics of Pakistan
CONTACT: Madiha at 917.922.9836 – progpak@gmail.com

The early days of Pakistan

About quota system

By Mohammad Ali Mahar, USA

….It was not Mr. Z. A. Bhutto who had introduced the quota system. It was Liaquat Ali who had initiated the system in the early days of Pakistan to facilitate Mohajirs and create his own constituency in Sindh. Mr. Bhutto only created balance in it. …My grandfather told me that Liaquat’s quota system was devised in such a way that 0% (yes, zero) jobs were allocated for indigenous Sindhis for the number of years and the whole bureaucracy was brought in from UP and CP….

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