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Partition
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For the mainly Urdu- speaking migrants from India who abandoned home and hearth to make their futures in a predominantly non- Urdu speaking country, Pakistan was the land of opportunity. Better educated than most of their coreligionists in western Pakistan, they expected to get the best jobs. Some of these muhajirs, as the refugees from India came to be known, had sensibly moved their money before partition in the hope of starting up new businesses in both wings of the country. The idea of mater
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― The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics
― The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics
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The Arab and Palestinian rejection of partition in 1947, which would have occurred on far better terms than those that are suggested today, left the Palestinians dispossessed, dispersed, and broken.
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― In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine
― In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine









































