“India reclaiming its legacy is ‘Hindu majoritarianism’, Pakistan appropriating its pre-Islamic heritage is ‘maturity’: Read how The Wire resorted to mental gymnastics to find ‘Aman ki Asha’”, OpIndia, july 06, 2026
“Pakistan has launched an aggressive rebranding campaign aimed at positing the 78-year-old Islamic Republic as a ‘civilisational state’ through a selective embrace of the region’s pre-Islamic history. Pakistan’s sinister pursuits have found a supporter in Islamo-leftist rag The Wire.
On the 4th July, The Wire published an opinion piece headlined, “How the Two Partitioned Nations Choose to Remember Their Past”. The article is authored by ‘independent journalist’ Rohinee Singh, who was among the 61 Indian signatories of the joint Aman ki Asha letter signed by Indian and Pakistani ‘concerned citizens’ that sought revival of the pro-Pakistan Musharraf-Manmohan framework on Jammu and Kashmir and PoJK.
In her article, Rohinee Singh juxtaposes the renaming exercise of certain places, buildings, roads by the governments in Pakistan and India, and weaves a narrative that somehow, Pakistan’s newfound love for its pre-Islamic and pre-partition past as a sign of ‘maturity’ and ‘correction of history’ while the Modi government’s renaming drive is ‘ideological positioning’, ‘curation of history’, and everything abominable…….”
Read full article at opindia.com
