From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1947: Seventy-five years ago: If wishes were horses.

As Boundary Commissions are shortly to undertake the task of final delimitation of the territories of both Western and Eastern Pakistan, Hindu propagandists have started their usual raging and tearing campaign to hoodwink the Commissioners, and through their good offices to grab considerable portions of various Muslim majority districts on one pretext or another. They are trying to commit what we may describe as robbery in broad daylight, by having maps drawn and published which show even predominantly Muslim areas as non-Muslim areas.

... One does not enter into an argument with the light-fingered gentry who seek to pick one's poAAcket in a public thoroughfare but ... the map which the [Amrita Bazar] Patrika has published, the Muslim majority...

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