HE decision of the Boundary Commission come to Pakistan like a bolt from the blue. They represent the award of only one man, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the Chairman, and they prove the folly of trusting the sense of justice of a single individual. Pakistan has been cheated of large areas in the Punjab, in Bengal and in the district of Sylhet which inalienably belonged to it.

To describe the three reports which Sir Cyril Radcliffe has submitted as judicial awards is to insult the very name of justice. A judge analyses evidence tendered before him and gives reasons for his findings. Sir Cyril Radcliffe has not considered it necessary to follow that procedure. Indeed, wherever he has attempted to explain some of his decisions he has become involved in contradictions, following one principle in Bengal and another in the Punjab.

Let us make it perfectly clear that even if the Government accepts this territorial murder of Pakistan, the people will not. We call upon the Muslims, on this day of Eid, to forego all festivity and to take a vow that they will work henceforth in their own way and in their own spheres for the restoration of Pakistan`s territorial integrity.•