Shaukat Hayat and other League leaders made frequent visits to Amritsar and told the city’s Muslims that they could ‘play a historic role in winning Amritsar for Pakistan’.86 In May, Muslim badmashes in Amritsar mocked their counterparts in Lahore by sending them henna and bangles. The ‘gift’ was publicized in some Lahore newspapers and seems to have played a role in stoking Lahore’s violence.
