A Bangladeshi’s Visit to Pakistan
July 27, 2008 by AJ
A Bangladeshi respecting Pakistanis, that’s something you won’t find very often from someone from Bangladesh. But the Bangladeshi visitor, Fariha, went to Pakistan and met the regular people, and her perception of Pakistan changed from the traditional anti-Paki views, which was imprinted to us in Bangladesh, to an open minded view. Read the article below thoroughly and you’ll realize us Bengalis are not that different from our fellow Pakistanis.
Fariha wrote:
“ Apko kia pata, ke humara dil apke liye kitna rota hai. Jab aap logo ko koi taklif hota hai to humain lagta hain k taklif humain ho raha hai. Bohot pyar karte hai hum aap se. alag ho gaye to kya hua. Bhai to bhai hota hai. Bangladeshi to humare bhai hai.”
Rafe, 60-something, Bus-driver, Lahore
I’ve met people from different parts of the world and traveled to a few places myself. But never, not once, in any of my interactions or travels, have I ever come across a race of people who have made me feel so proud of my nationality: Bangladeshi. But then, I visited Pakistan. I was born in an independent Bangladesh. I’ve never had to struggle to get my voice heard, I was allowed to vote (till quite recently) and I’m allowed to speak my mind. Until my trip to Pakistan, I had never realized how precious all these things are. I had always regarded Pakistan, a distant country, as a bitter chapter in our history. But only after meeting the people did I realize how close we could be and how much my heritage means to them. Never before have I received so much respect for just being Bangladeshi.
Till quite recently, I had never visited Pakistan. Neither had my parents. Since the only Pakistanis I’d met belonged to the educated bourgeoisie class, I had assumed that it was only this select lot who were aware of the atrocities committed in 1971. I had always believed that most Pakistanis believed that Bangladeshis were Kafirs who had let India take them over and regarded us with disdain. Don’t ask me why I thought all of this or what explanation I have for my notions. My notions had stemmed from the prevalent attitude of our pro-liberation buddhijibis, who have, through their own glorifications of our War of Liberation, somehow equated patriotism as anti-Pakistani feeling and instilled that in some of us. In fact, I still know people who think that to be a true patriot you would have to hate Pakistan, with all its institutions and people. Our elders in Bangladesh, somehow always let us think that Pakistanis don’t care about Bangladesh. I’m not blaming them for my ill-conceived ideas. I was partly to blame for judging a whole race simply on the basis of the half-truths I had heard. I am not proud of what I thought. But my recent trip to Pakistan has made me feel proud of who I am and I am proud of my newly acquired views. Though I think that I now face the threat of being termed a ‘paki-lover’ or ‘Rajakar’, I am writing this because I think that our generation needs to know the other side of the story.
To be perfectly honest, upon our arrival at Islamabad, since the very first people we had met were bureaucrats, I didn’t buy into the whole “Pakistani-Bangladeshi bhai bhai” ideology they seemed to desperately convey to us. To me it seemed too forceful, too elaborate and too far removed from what we in Bangladesh have been led to believe about Pakistani attitude towards Bangladesh. If every shop-keeper, hotel-boy, porter, flight-attendant, bus-driver and almost everyone else I had met hadn’t echoed the same sentiments, I probably never would’ve believed that Pakistani people actually believe that we are still their brothers and they love us. It’s love that is rooted in our shared history, in our present day struggles to make our mark in this world, our efforts to rise above poverty and frustration at watching our neighbors grow at exponential rates as we combat the demons of corruption and bad governance.
“There are so many things we need to learn from Bangladesh. In fact, I personally think that your Caretaker Government system is very effective and we’re trying to emulate that”, an Additional Secretary told the ten-member media delegation from Bangladesh. Nothing was said, but their admiration for our achievements, including in establishing democracy and keeping it for 15 years, was apparent. In Karachi, an official of the Press Information Department under their Ministry of Information regaled the success of our homegrown micro-credit formula and it’s award-winning success. As far as the bureaucracy of Pakistan was concerned, everywhere we went we were greeted by praise and accolade. Even with 106 licensed private TV channels and 60 on-air channels, the Government of Pakistan marveled at how the journalists in Bangladesh are better trained and more sensitized. In a country where GEO News was closed down for violating State of Emergency rules, the Bangladeshi media received accolade from the Pakistani media for the courage demonstrated and the torture survived. In a media world now free of ‘press advise’ from intelligence agencies or foreign ministries, they marveled at the openness of our media. Peshawar Press Club gave the media delegates a reception and Express News threw a dinner. I am told that this is commonplace for all delegates from Bangladesh visiting Pakistan. But it most certainly wasn’t commonplace for me. No one had ever told me that this is how much respect these people have for us. All I have learnt from the learned, well-versed editors of our progressive newspapers is that Pakistan, the monsters who had killed our people in 1971 is now a failed nation. They forgot to mention the people of Pakistan, the warmth and hospitality they extend to all visiting Bangladeshis and the love and respect they still have for us. They never taught us how to help them or how to become friends with Pakistanis. Ulta, this was frowned upon. We weren’t told about how much they crave our friendship.
I had always believed that the atrocities committed in1971 by the Pakistani Military Hanadar Bahini, the genocide and the rapes would be a taboo topic for us in Pakistan. Taboo not just on the account us being invited by the Pakistan Government, but also because I had believed the Pakistani version of the events of 1971 to be different from ours. Therefore, you can imagine my shock when everyone I met mentioned our Liberation War (mind you, not the “Fall of Dhaka”) as ‘mistakes made by us in 1971, that shouldn’t have happened and we wish they hadn’t happened’. Rafe chacha, the man who drove our bus said to me, ‘beta, Bhutto ne jo kia, bohot galat kia. Mujhe to ootni talim bhi nahi hai, par itna to mujhe bhi pata hai’. Roughly translated, he meant that despite his lack of formal education, even he was aware of the atrocities committed by Bhutto (not just Yahya Khan, the executioner, but also the dictator) in 1971. Later on, he even explained to me how now that all of Pakistan is racially divided; they understand how Bangladesh must have felt. Rafe chacha even said to me how the people of Pakistan feel that political leadership in Bangladesh is much stronger than in Pakistan. ‘Benazir Bhutto jo thi, wo bhi zamindar ki beti thi. Oon ko kia pata k 3 din se mere ghar mei atta nahi hai. Aap k muluk mei to kitne acche admi hai, leaders hai. Humai aaj take k bhi sahi admi nahi mila. Aap ka jo dr.yunus hai, un ho ne garib o k barei mei socha, kuch kia. Humare yaha ek bhi aisa admi nahi mila’, he remorses. He said he echoed the sentiments of the rural working class who are always struggling to survive the repeated onslaughts of the political turmoil in the country. The ups and downs of power-play-who wins the elections or who looses, really never affects the common man. He knows that politics is not for him. He knows regardless of who wins the election, if there ever is one, at the end, he looses. Successive regimes have only helped to widen the rich and poor divide and people like Rafe chacha seek a program like micro-credit to improve their financial conditions. There are millions like Rafe chacha who would benefit from the models developed by our NGOs and civil society organizations that help the grassroots people. Even a PID official admitted that Sheikh Hasina is his favorite South Asian leader because she stands for the common man. The sectarian violence, the non-homogenous population and the increasing rich and poor divide has helped people like Rafe chacha and the likes of him realize and empathize with our plights pre-71. We, as Bangladeshis, as an independent, sovereign nation, with our certain successful social organization models are now in the capacity to help them and save them from the fate we had suffered.
“Baji aap Bangladesh se hai? Arre kia baat hai. Phir to aap hamare mehman hai. Aap ko kia pilau? Paani yia Cola? Aap meri puri dukan le jao koi masla nahi. Mehman hai aap humare’. I got tired of hearing these lines. I heard the same lines in Islamabad, in Murree, in Karachi and even in Peshawar. A pukhtun shopkeeper abandoned his shop in the evening, in a jomjomat bazaar just to show a few lost Bangladeshi journalists the way to another bazaar. In fact, the Pathans made these guys have dinner with them, saying that Bangladeshis were not just guests but brothers.I have never received so much love and respect anywhere else in the world, for simply being Bangladeshi. Everywhere I went, everyone I met, somehow managed to show this chit of a Bangladeshi girl, with her uncovered head and bare arms, an amazing display of camaraderie and respect. I really don’t know what I have in common with the man from Waziristan who dragged my luggage across the streets of Saddar in Peshawar or the teachers of Peshawar University who were going berserk trying to find an old picture of my grandfather which could’ve been anywhere in Pakistan. They didn’t have to do any of that. They are not answerable to any government, theirs or mine. They didn’t know me. They belong to a different nation, a different culture and an altogether different world. But somehow, they were able to relate to me before I could relate to them. They called me a sister even before I would consider them friends. They made the first move, they extended their hand of friendship and their love and hospitality. They gave me love because they believed that their leaders had wronged us in ’71, but we have survived and grown stronger, and more successful than them. We have greater literacy rates and more female participation in all sections of the socio-economic system. From Islamabad to Peshawar and in Karachi, all they gave us was love and respect and all they wanted from us was knowledge. They humbly expressed remorse for 1971 for the actions of the Pakistani military. In every action of theirs, I saw a call for help and solidarity. I felt that this nation, once so known to our forefathers, now completely alien to us, needs us to cooperate with them, help them up, just like one brother (even an estranged one) would help another. They made me feel strong and powerful. They made me feel proud of our achievements—all the things that we take for granted at home. This wasn’t the kind of pride you feel when you defeat another team in cricket or when you realize someone else is worse off than you. This was the first time in my life a foreign country and people, by their own good actions, had made me feel so proud of my Bangladeshi heritage.
In war-ravaged NWFP, where the local government is still struggling to accommodate the refugees, ensure minimum security and attain a minimum standard of living for its entire populace, we were perhaps best received. The governor of NWFP, Mr. Owais Ghani only reinstated Pakistan’s new attitude towards Bangladesh, ‘Let us not be prisoners of our past. Let us learn from our past and now look forward’.
In my humble opinion and still limited purview of the world, I feel that Bangladesh and our hard-earned independence have been vindicated. We have proven to Pakistan, home to our military oppressors and bloodthirsty dictator of 1971, that we have survived and we’ve only gotten better. Now, it’s time to show them just strong we are by sharing some of our strengths with them and helping them out in their struggles.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. If we now close our doors to Pakistan, we will be shutting out a friend. The people of Pakistan have nothing but respect for Bangladesh. They want to learn. They want to know. But what will be our call? Will we play into the hands of those who have used the sentiments of 1971 to progress their own vested interests or should we promote our inherently peaceful and progressive way of life to a nation that looks up at us with hope and an offer of friendship. Again, at the risk of being labeled, I dare suggest that perhaps, it’s time to call truce and move on. We will never forget 1971, but then taking pride in our history should not be analogous to hating the people of another country, who were also victims of their circumstances and military oppressors.
Source: Drishtipat
I thank the writer for the article. It is true that we Pakistanis have all the love for our Bangladeshi brothers and sisters. We regret what happened in the past. We wish Bangladesh success in every endeavor they under take.
Long live Bangladesh!
If Pakistan really wants true friendship from us the Bangladeshis, then why don’t they formally apologize to us for 1971!? Though General Parvez Musharraf once made regrets for 1971 but he was a Military dictator and his regrtest did not reflect the populous opinion. One more thing is that we had to share the total debt of united Pakistan but we never received the asset divided and Pakistan keeps it unresolved years after year! so falling apart relieved them from half of their debt! The non-Bengalis who wants to go back to Pakistan living in Geneva camp for the last 37 years but Pakistan do not want them back. It is very easy to call some one brother, but true brother is him who takes the responsibilities and shares the burden. May Allah bless them.
Regret has been repeated many time by Bhutto, Sharif and Musharraf. This is an Indian bogey to keep brothers apart.
As one of my Baangaldeshi brothers said…Kufa people murdered the prophets nephew..we don’t hold all riaqis responsible for that.
Listen, I was 10 at the time…I write this a few years ago. You want to hold the new generation responsible for the sins of other generations…
Peace and friendhsip without any preconditions.
Friendship doesnot start with apology.
i have met a lot of pakistanies. each and everybody has got hatred towards other races and sects. like i have heard punjabis saying that pathans sell their girls (brides’ family taking money from the groom) and pathan saying punjabis are from hindus. i have come accross quite a few sind, muhajer and baluch who are real separationist.
look creation of pakistan was orchastrated by the west. you might wonder why? undivided india meant muslim being the majority after few decades, two most populous states bengal and punjab being muslim majority and hence muslims having significant influence in the parliament.
how do the west materialised their plan:
Giving real strength to the minority sect’s elites.
just like what happened in iraq (sunni minority having run vastly shia majority iraq), and syria (alawi shia asad familty runing nearly 90% sunni syria). look jinnah was born in aga khani shia family but later he practised ithna ashri or main shia sects though. jinnah and the then aga khan founded Muslim league. Later Bhutto who was from an elite shia family founded PPP. Benojir and her husband are shias. look first 3 prime minister of pakistan was shias so as the head of the military. Zia-ul-haq was the first sunni strong man of pakistan. another thing Zinnah’s only child dinna zinnah married a parsic christian from india (divorced after a few years though) and converted to christianity and had been practising christianity since then. if you dont believe these things, search for your own.
Shia-pakistan
December 26, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Pakistanis are very much misguided nation. Its female literacy rate is lower than bangladesh now. In terms of overall literacy rate bangladesh is gaining ground rapidly whereas pakistan is falling behind. and under 5-year old child death rate per 1000: according to 2005 UN statistics bangladesh had 68 deaths whereas pakistan had 105.
it is clear from recent events that west is going to materialise disintegration of pakistan in a few years time into: baluchistan , frontier, sind, panjab etc.. if you think it will be possible for a largely illiterate country to defend itself then you are the foolest person to be on the face of earth.
We published your post as a eye opener to the appeasers
The usual attempt to fuel strife in Pakistan will fail. India is too disunited right now–a tinderbox ready to explode like Yugoslavia or implode like the USSR. The long term plan it to build the hopes of Delhi but now the cement.
Does the world think about what Delhi wants. No! The world usually ignores what Delhi wants. If the hatred and bigotry spewing out of Bharat was something new, there would be an iota of a possibility of some credability to what you say.
However the prophecy of doom and the hatred bagan in 1946 (when Nehru predicted that Pakistan would fold in 3 months). It continued through the decades and Pakistan keeps on getting stronger and the threats keep on growing). The hugging and the puffing does not phase nuclear armed countries.
Let us take your scenario…and try some logic to your thought…..you will have 160 million pissied of Pakistanis and a 150 million pissed off Indian Muslims and a 150 million pissed of Bangladeshis. Plus the Pakhtuns from Afghanistan you routinely viist Delhi every few hundred years, Mahmud, Abdali, Babur etc. Do you think that they will stop now?
That if the 250 nuclear bombs don’t rain on 250 Indian cities and send them to oblivion…and make it easier for the Pakhtuns to walk to Panipat later, much later…
First of all “Saad” it does not bode well for you to use a fake name. Who are you kidding? What are athe chances of “Saad” writing from Thane Maharashtra.
Does the world think about what Delhi wants. No! The world usually ignores what Delhi wants. If the hatred and bigotry spewing out of Bharat was something new, there would be an iota of a possibility of some credability to what you say.
However the prophecy of doom and the hatred bagan in 1946 (when Nehru predicted that Pakistan would fold in 3 months). It continued through the decades and Pakistan keeps on getting stronger and the threats keep on growing). The hugging and the puffing does not phase nuclear armed countries.
Let us take your scenario…and try some logic to your thought…..you will have 160 million pissied of Pakistanis and a 150 million pissed off Indian Muslims and a 150 million pissed of Bangladeshis. Plus the Pakhtuns from Afghanistan you routinely viist Delhi every few hundred years, Mahmud, Abdali, Babur etc. Do you think that they will stop now?
That if the 250 nuclear bombs don’t rain on 250 Indian cities and send them to oblivion…and make it easier for the Pakhtuns to walk to Panipat later, much later…
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Moin Ansari
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Imranul Kabir and shia-Pakistan are hindus and Indian. They are part of India’s cyber warriors come to our blogs in disguise of Pakistanis. Be aware of their tactics. Disregard their comments.
We Pakistanis are sorry for what we did in 1971. However, it is very important for our Bangladeshi brothers that they were also used by India. They also committed, though in retaliation, atrocities against their Behari (Pakistani) brethrens.
Despite all this we regret what happened in 1971. We want to see Bangladesh progressing and prosperous.
If you pakis[tanis] love bengalis so much than why did u kill us in 71, why did u support bhutto who openly called us swines? yea when u lose a part of a country you would naturally feel guilty of your actions. to us bengalis, pakistan is a curse and it should be destroyed if peace is to prevail in the region
Editors Note: We have verified that this writer is not from Bangladesh as he/she claims. The Name, email address are obviously fake as is the message.
The original article was written by a Bangladeshi who obviously does not share the ideas of Bharatis like yourself. If you had any integrity you would use a real name.
The conditions that led to 1971 are detailed in “The India Doctrine” by Bangladeshi writer Barrister Munshi and Dr. Isha Khan and others. Please review real history books before making statements.
Of course Bhutto made no such deragatory comments. He actually supported the original coup against Shiakh Mujib Ur Rehman and tried to work with Khondkar Mustaque who had for the briefest moment announced a re-confederation with Pakistan on August 14th, 1975. Sadly some lements intervened and Khondkar Mushtaque was removed from office.
The question to be asked is why did East Bengal elect Mujib Ur rehman who was obviously in the lap of the Indain RAW. There was an equal amount of name calling on all side. Bloodshed of the Biharis and the BEnglais should be equally condemned. Even one victim of a Civil War is too many, especially if both sides are Muslim.
As Barrister Munshi said to elequently the people of Kufa assassianated the prophet’s nephew. It is unrealistic to hold all Iraqis and Syrains responsible for any crime committed in the past.
2 million Bangladeshis live and work in Karachi and regualrly send their hard earned income to Bangladesh. Many arrive on a monthly basis to eek out a leving in the thriving metropolis.. Pakistanis have good feelings towards Bangaldeshis and this is a fact of life. One can expereince it in the streets of Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and elsewhere.
Rupee News always wishes all its Bangladeshi freids the best. Of course you are not Bangladeshi so your comments are based on your own programming.
Best Regards
dear bong bandhus
[..] is here to hear all ur all questions & settle ur all disputes
He will even hand over grievence cheques
So be in queue
but look out for guns
he may start firing any time as they did
remember pakistani army saved bullets by firing bangla people in queue in 1971?
so watch out
Dear Friends
Truth will prevail not the polished answer of Moin . But to attempt to have frienship is good and welcome . Most of Pakistani I have met they look Bangladeshis with contempt .When Bangala desh liberation took place there was lot of jokes on bangladeshis , being told by Pakistanis and cassettes were available even in India and what was their true feeling towards Bangladeshis was exposed when they did not trust Bengalis to lead the government .
Persons are trusted at the moment of occaisons .
Thanks
Kuamr
@ kumar:
Your crocodile tears for Bangaldeshis have no bearing on facts on the ground. Dhaka hates Dlehi more than anything. Read http://www.BangladeshPatriot.com and http://www.daccatimes.com
The new generation of Bangaldeshis are working for Brihot Bangladesh wich includes West bengal, Bihar and Assam.
The non-Bengalis who wants to go back to Pakistan living in Geneva camp for the last 37 years but Pakistan do not want them back. It is very easy to call some one brother, but true brother is him who takes the responsibilities and shares the burden. May Allah bless them.
@ Kumr
You are right. We have been writing about this for twenty years.
Its not just camp Geneva–it is seventy camps in Bangladesh. I agree with you Pakistan should take the Biharis back home–however electoral politics makes it very difficult. The influx of Biharis would change demographics in certain areas, and they don’t want to live in the Punjab.
However we agree this is injustice that has to be rectified jointly by Dhaka and Islamabad.
It is paradoxical that 2 million Bangladeshis live in Karachi illegally and the Biharis cannot live in Pakistan.
Multitude of pee cola drinker space warriors are shooting in the dark, and Al-Hamdulillah all are missing their targets. The world has become smart enough to know the six million Jews were massacred by their own brethren the Khazar Jews, that hold the whole world at gun point.
The Sabbatai Zevy Jews Killed two million Armenians and blamed it on Muslims, but the world has awakened. The Jews in Soviet Russia killed 60 million Christians and Muslims, the world now knows. The British Killed two million Muslims in India and two Million in Bengal with the help of Hindus. The world has awaken to that. The British has killed untold Millions around the world along with other European mercenary forces. The world knows that. Mujibur Rahman the Munafiq was helped by the RAW, MOSSAD MI6 to interject 80,000 Hindus dressed in Pakistani garb to create havoc, plunder, rape under the guise of Mukti Bihini and blame it on Pakistan. My Question to you foolish is. Why are them forces committing all these atrocities?
They create the problem, inciting ethnic hatred, arming all the opposing forces so as to kill each other, and after much death and destruction they offer a solution that fits their need and agenda. This is called One World Government with no religion other than the religion as practiced by Jews within Talmudic discipline where all the gentiles or Goyim are slave of self declared God chosen people. But there is a HUGE problem in the endeavor or wet dream. It is Islam. As it is the only Stumbling Block, before they take the whole world by its forelocks. Physically they can join all their forces to defeat Islam, yet they will fail. Another way is to use print and TV media to demonize Islam and it adherents so as to create doubts within its belief system, thus creating tension and chaos between the Muslim masses, resulting in fragmentation and grouping of different ethnicity and finance and arm them to dis-integrate locally, city wise and the country wise. Now they have a ripe tree for plucking. India, at present is under dog therefore they have to help their foreign sponsors to carry out such a feat. India’s future is bleak, as per Rasoolulah (pbuh) criteria, India is the worst Nation on the face of Earth, as it kills it own women (bride burning) and female infanticide, (one million female babies are killed every year) so by virtue of its barbaric and perverse policies, culture and religion, India will self Destruct.
Against all the foreign manufactured odds, Pakistan will rise, Insha-Allah. And know when He comes there would be no nationalism based on ethnicity, so you that inspire for a piece of property on basis of ethnicity, now is the time to Repent and ask Alllah’s forgiveness
Assalamu-Elekum.
Dear Pakistanis and Bengali brothers,
The indians are here too on this blig in guise of bengalis promoting hatered among pakistanis and bengalis. These people called india a true democracy and fast developing country and PAkistan a failed state. Here are some fact which may help you people to understand the true face of indian democracy.
1- India has one of the biggest muslim population in the world but in the indian government (Lok sabha) there is not even a single minister who is muslim nor there will be any in near future.
2- Indian hindu extremists has always oppressed minorities specially muslims e.g Gujrat massacre in which more than 5,000 muslim were burnt alive or slaughtered and hindu mobs did cut wombs of pregnant women and thrown fetuses out. The mastermind ( NARINDRA MODI) is still chief minister of indian gujrat.
3- BAbri mosque is another proof of indian democracy which was demolished by hindu mobs (backed by centeral government) and thousands of muslim then persecuted.
4- Golden temple (in Amritsar) was demolished and thousands of Sikhs were killed in punjab, India
5- Hundreds of churches in all over india were attacked, destroyed and christians killed ( specially in Orissa). One Australian christian missionary was burnt alive in his jeep with two young daughters.
6- Indian army has killed more than 90,000 kashmiri civilians in indian occupied kashmir and mantain a 700,000 troop presence in valley (highest in world per person) to oppress kashmiris.
7- Indians staged biggest terrorist war against pakistanis and bengalis in east pakistan in 1971 and killed millions in guise of pakistani military. They first trained and equipped the bengali air force for terrorism in east pakistan even before the creation of state of Bengladesh.
These facts are few to mention here, generally the hindus are closed minded people and cant accept minorities with open heart and cant co exist. So, it should be an eye opener for all south asian muslims that PAkistan is a balancing force in region against these hindu extremists. If ever pakistan looses the whole minorities of south asia including Muslims, Sikhs, Christians will be slaughtered like what happend in indian gujrat and Indian punjab
Thank You
@ Khalil
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Rupee News Fact check
Muslims are about 13% of Bharat–however there are very few members in the Lok Sabha
New Delhi: Notwithstanding the fact that the number of Muslims in the new Lok Sabha has reduced substantially, the voice of community is heeded more vociferously than even before. Whether it is railways budget, finance bill, the general budget or any other issue the newly elected Muslim MPs as well as some old ones are whole-heartedly participating in the discussion and debate and putting minority views credibly before the parliament and the government. The regular observers of the parliament proceeding see it as an interesting change in minority leadership.
The Muslim members of parliament particularly Mohammed E.T. Basheer of Indian Muslim League (Ponnani), Abdul Rahman of DMK (Vellore), Badruddin Ajmal of Assam United Democratic Front (Dhubri), Asaduddin Owaisi of Majlis Ittahadul Muslemin (Hyderabad), Asrarul Haque Qasmi (Kishanganj) and Azaharuddin of Congress (Mordabad) and others are leaving no chance to raise the community issues.