Eqbal ahmad biography graphic organizer

Schaar quotes him on the Kashmir jihad: “Pathans burnt and pillaged Hindu villages, raping women and killing people.

I heard stories of similar excesses — killings and lootings, but no rape — being committed on the Muslim villages as well.

Eqbal ahmad biography graphic organizer

There were the Muslim Leaguers who had brought me there. Ahmadis had also joined, primarily in order to proselytise. Having no interest in either… I joined the single Communist Party unit led by Latif Afghani. [His] cell was my introduction to the Left.”

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In the early 1970s, Eqbal was deep in the anti-Vietnam War movement and got into trouble with FBI chief J.

Edgar Hoover “for attempting to kidnap Henry Kissinger”. For those of us who never believed this, here is a quote from the book: “Eqbal proposed that they make a citizen’s arrest of Henry Kissinger and interrogate him, perhaps filming the whole event and then release him…” This was pure fantasy, but the spo