People like Nab wants world to forget is that massacres were started by the goondas of Muslim league in Rawalpindi against minority Sikhs especially, in the hope if they drive Sikhs out, the hindus will be easy targets thereafter.There were train massacres arriving from Lahore daily.

GSK, London , United Kingdom

The Muslims of Pakistan created the problem when they chose to separate themselves from the rest of India. It is India that is looking to the world stage and Pakistan is increasingly becoming an irrelevance. It is on the fast track to becoming a failed state.

Rod Polisher, Scunthorpe, UK

Some of the comments here are laughable. If Hindus and Sikhs had been atenth as brutal as Muslims, there would be no muslims in India today. Period.

Joshua Crasto, Mumbai, India

Mr NAB seems to be suffering from a persecution complex. Muslims in India are better off than Muslims in Pakistan. I'm glad I chose to stay in India.

Alijan Faruqui, Hyderabad, India

To the comment by Maggie Millington - "would India be a thriving democracy today without it's difficult past?", I suggest she read the history of India before the British "won" the Battle of Plassey. :-)
A majority of our kings & queens were true democrats, especially so in the Southern part of India. People of every religion had a rightful place in society and were represented fairly.
We did not have the idiocy of a long list of English kings and queens stuffing their personal religion down everyone's throats by violent coercion.
Please do remember the Dark Ages. We never had one in India. We were an thriving society who together with China till the 1500s contributed 60% of the entire world's GNP. Then the British arrived and everything went to hell in a hand basket. :-)
Though Pakistan was created for all Muslims in India to live in, many stayed back in India. Their life may not be perfect, but it's a heck of lot better than of those living in Pakistan.

VR, San Jose, USA

I dont think NAB from coventry can get himself to accept that partition was a bad idea. Yes muslims were slaughtered but so were hindus and sikhs and none of this would have happened if muslims did not demend a seperate homeland. Yet muslims in india today at the forefront of its amazing success. So dont you think that people living on the pakistani side have lost out and for that matter india too, by the partition. unfortunately this same seperatist attitude has been brought to britain which is preventing the pakistani muslims from intefrating into mainstream Britain. And it wont be long before mulims from pakistan start demanding a seperate islamic state

SKP, Solihull, UK

Don't you think there has been enough blood letting now ?

No one, & I mean no one , is free of guilt we all have blood on our hands. Please end the blood letting , 60 years on it should be about the present generation & their future.
Could we now look forward & see the positives , the British pulled out , it was very messy , but it must be time to see some good in their legacy .
Watching Sanjeev Baskars facinating program this week , he spoke to a woman who does see it , the infra structure was mentioned & the English language.
It begs this question, would India be a thriving democracy today without it's difficult past ? the answer is probably , no .

Maggie Millington, Brittany , France

The comments of some Muslim correspondents are astonishing to me. India has a massive Muslim minority which receives not just equal but favoured treatement under its constitution - Muslims have been Presidents of the country, served in the Army, Police, have held important political offices and also represented India at test level in cricket - some of India's best known captains have been Muslims as are some of India's most famous film stars.

How are Hindus or other religious minorities treated in Pakistan? All this talk about how Muslims needed a separate country is laughable when one considers how the "native" Pakistanis treat the "Mohajirs" (Muslim migrants from India - their condition is far worse than that of any Muslims anywhere in India).

It is true that Muslims were killed on the Indian side. But we did not ethnically cleanse our Muslim population the way Pakistan did to its Hindus and Sikhs. If we had, there would be not be 150 million Muslims living in India today.

Nitin, Mumbai, India

Atleast someone admits that IT WAS ONLY AND ONLY MUSLIMS WHO WERE MERCILESSLY SLAUGHTERED AT THAT TIME. This proves that creation of Pakistan was the only option to survive for Muslims of the subcontinent

NAB, Coventry, UK

I feel sad when people celebrate Independent day. In my opinion people are celebrating killing of innocent people because of religion. When fact is Hindu & Sikh all over India killed Millions of Muslims. Dehli, Bihar, UP, Panjab, Gujrat etc. and Hindu in Pakistan.

Munna, London, UK.

BBC has given programs to commomorate 60 yrs. of independence. Since childhood It had been printed that Hindus & Sikhs were the killers, this program shows everyone was a killer.

Be a muslim, a hindu a sikh, one needs to hang his head in shame. I think we must hang our head in shame even if one non muslim was killed. My question is were the Hindus & Sikhs as brutally killed in Pakistan as Muslims were killed in India. I had heard that Sikh massacered trains coming to Pakistan, now this hindu was saying that the train reached Delhi from Pakistan full of corpses.

My printing thus far was that muslims 10% fault Hindus & Sikh 90%. Do i downgrade to 40:60 or even 50:50.

alahuddin Nizami, Dubai, U. A. E.

Everybody will welcome Mr. Chawla he visits Sibi, Quatta in Balochistan or Jacobabad in Sindh.. Some years back I met gentleman who came from England. He was originally from Sarghoda in Punjab but his father had business in Queatta. In Sindh he visited Karachi, Hyderabad, and Mohenjodaro in Larkana district. Wherever he went he was received warmly because after all he was the son of soil and received hospitality of the local people. So Mr. Chawla, probably Siraiki speaking is welcome.


Sindh University
son of soil and recieved hospilility of the local people

Professor Mehtab Ali Shah, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan