Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana Quotes
... the work of lunatics.
Even though a Muslim and one of the senior members of Jinnah's Muslim League, he thought that Jinnah and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee were delusional about being able to have a Muslim nation encompassing the Punjab. He was right, and hundreds of thousands died in Sikh-Muslim attacks and then Hindu-Muslim conflict in the Punjab. Khizar left politics and would not take any post in Pakistan after the partition of the Punjab and the slaughter that followed.
Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana, 1900-1975, Indian Prime Minister of the Punjab (Unionist Muslim League), Opinion of the Muslim League and British plan to have an Independent Moslem PakistanQuoted in a letter from British Punjab Governor Jenkins to Viceroy Wavell, February 29, 1947
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During the 1956 Suez crisis, President Eisenhower, distressed at the British invasion of Egypt, phoned British Prime Minister Anthony Eden. Although he didn't realize it, Eisenhower was actually addressing Eden's press secretary:
The attitude of the non-Muslims at that time was based on the Muslim attacks in the Punjab on Sikhs where entire Sikh villages and neighborhoods in towns and cities were murdered—every man woman and child. In many cases women were first raped. The Muslims had been whipped up by the leaders of the Muslim League to put terrorist pressure on the Sikh, Hindu and British to meet the League's political and territorial demands for an Independent Pakistan. Soon there was retaliation in kind and there were many Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims engaged in internecine slaughter and behaving "little better than animals".
This famous quotation, from this important address, at such a critical time in history has been admired for years. Despite his great oratory, the next months were to see almost 2 million Indians of all faiths killed in what was probably the worst internecine violence in human history. Ironically, the politically motivated terrorism had stopped since all the decisions had been made. The motivation for the frightful atrocities that took place from then on was vengeance and fear of more vengeance." 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Describing presidential candidate Ross Perot:
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana KCSI, OBE (Punjabi: نواب ملک خضرحیات تیوانہ) was a Punjabi statesman, army officer, and landowner who served as the Unionist Premier of the Punjab in colonial India between 1942 and 1947.