Liaquat-Nehru pact
- June 24, 2023
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Liaquat-Nehru pact
Subject : History
Section: Modern India
Concept :
- Death anniversary of Syama Prasad Mookerjee was marked recently. He resigned from the cabinet of JL Nehru in April 1950 over the controversial Nehru-Liaquat Pact.
About the Nehru-Liaquat pact
- The Nehru-Liaquat Pact, also known as the Delhi Pact, was a bilateral agreement signed between India and Pakistan in order to provide a framework for the treatment of minorities in the two countries.
- It was signed by the two country’s prime ministers – Jawaharlal Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan.
Need for the pact:
- The need for such a pact was felt by minorities in both countries following Partition, which was accompanied by massive communal rioting.
- Even in 1950 over a million Hindus and Muslims migrated to and from East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh), amidst unspoken violence and communal tensions.
The agreement:
- The Governments of India and Pakistan solemnly agree that each shall ensure, to the minorities throughout its territory:
- complete equality of citizenship, irrespective of religion,
- a full sense of security in respect of life, culture, property and personal honour,
- freedom of movement within each country and
- freedom of occupation, speech and worship, subject to law and morality.
- Members of the minorities shall have equal opportunity with members of the majority community to:
- participate in the public life of their country,
- to hold political or other office, and
- to serve in their country’s civil and armed forces.