MEANING OF PAKISTAN
AIMS OF MOSLEMS IN INDIA. Of India’s 390,000,000, approximately 255,000,000 are Hindus and 94,000,000 are Moslems, writes William Philip Simms, in the “New York World Telegram.” There are twice as many Moslems in India as there are Britons in the British Isles. To speak of them as a mere “minority,” therefore, begs the question. They refuse to he governed by a “majority” of Hindus. And although they are just as ardently for independence as the Hindus, they prefer British rule to Hindu rule. They declare they will fight rather than submit to Hindu domination. The Moslems want nationhood. They* call it Pakistan, meaning “the land of the. clean or pure.” Orthodox Hindus regard other peoples as inferior. Christians and Moslems are known to them as Melachyyas, whch means “unclean, impure, dirty.” But as Moslems, like Christians, preach that cleanliness is next to godliness, they resent, the Hindu attitude. The term “Pakistan” reflects
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 205, 12 June 1945, Page 6
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