AGONY OF NATIVE BENGALIS IN PAKISTAN – Wheels within wheels

By Nirendra Dev

Bengalis are the third-largest ethnic group in the world, after the Han Chinese and Arabs and the largest ethnic group within the Indo-Europeans. Like Punjabis they are also found in most parts of the World besides their own countries India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. They are active culturally and even intellectually but keep low profile politically for various reasons. But it is an irony that like Punjabis they face many problems in their own countries even though they are born and brought up there for generations, the former for the religion they practice and the later for the language they speak and at times a deadly mixture-both language and religion!