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Veteran leftist leader Iqbal Alvi passes away Karachi May 13, 2021 Iqbal Alvi, a devoted left-wing activist associated with the Communist Party of Pakistan, passed away on Tuesday night. He was 90. On Wednesday, his funeral prayers were offered at Abubakar Masjid in Clifton and he was buried at a Model Colony graveyard. He has been survived by two daughters and a son. A large number of intellectuals, social and political activists, and trade unionists attended the funeral. Born in United Province, Ali had moved to Hyderabad Deccan where he was influenced by the trade union movement. After Partition, Ali came to Lahore to meet his maternal uncle - Syed NaqI Ali - who was a central leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami. ....
ON Jan 6, 1948, about 200 Labana Sikhs arrived from northern Sindh by train to the Akal Bunga Gurdwara on Temple Road in Ratan Talao on their way to India. Within two hours of their arrival, an organised mob, breaking through the inadequate unarmed police cordon, attacked the temple and Sikhs within. The mob looted them and massacred 64 Sikh refugees before setting the temple ablaze. The rampage went on and the mob looted houses owned by the Hindus as well around the gurdwara. Eyewitness accounts of the carnage are dismal and heartbreaking. The law-enforcing agencies appeared nowhere around. Karachi had not witnessed such a scene ever before, not even at the time of partition in 1947. Sindh governor at the time of independence, Francis Mundie, described normalcy in Sindh in the days leading up to partition as a place which “characteristically carries on almost as if nothing had happened or was about to happen”. ....