"Jinnah Did Not Just Want Partition, He Wanted to Dismember India" | Karan Thapar

In a 45-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Prof. Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stockholm University and a former visiting Professor at Government College, Lahore as well as the Lahore University of Management Sciences and a regular columnist for Pakistan’s Friday Times, provides a wealth of evidence for debunking the bargaining chip theory, first popularized by Ayesha Jalal and thereafter accepted by many others. Prof. Ahmed cites several occasions when Jinnah specifically denied the Lahore Resolution was a bargaining chip. He says: “Jinnah never, even once, showed any interest in a united India and in a power-sharing deal with hindus and muslims as equal nations sharing power at the Centre. Jalal omits all those speeches, statements and messages where ad infinitum he reiterates that the Lahore Resolution means the division of India into Hindustan and Pakistan.”

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