Here lies the unpopularity of the nationalist leaders. I have heard Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari’s political lectures. The great speaker carries even the hostile audience with him. In the ecstasy of the moment, the people are so moved that drops of water trickle from their eyes, and they jump to their legs in an excited state of feeling. When this forceful orator says, “Freedom is our birthright. Muslims should get it at all costs,” the audience in one voice shrieks out, “Allah is great,” in approbation. When he says, “But this freedom cannot be attained without Hindu-Muslim unity,” the Muslim audience gives him a blank look. “Unity with those,” they say, “who treat us as untouchables is an impossible proposition.”

(Chaudhry Afzal Haq, ‘Pakistan and untouchability)