In another incident, at a gathering of poets in Karachi, a Pakistani poet recited anti-India poems calling people to take part in jihad for Kashmir. Jigar resgistered his protest and walked out immediately.
The wrier Akhtar Balouch says, Karachi had a road named after Moti Lal Nehru and one after his son, Jawaharlal Nehru . It even had a road named after Jawaharlal's wife, Kamla Nehru.
The father and son no longer have any street sign to their name in Pakistan, but Kamla Nehru Road still exists.
In the municipal corporation's city map of 1977, a Moti Lal Nehru Road is clearly visible in Jamshed Quarters, Karachi.But now, it is called the Jigar Muradabadi Road.
Balouch writes, "it was gravely important to rename the Moti Lal Nehru Road to Jigar Muradabadi Road, because the former was a Hindu and the latter a Muslim (or at least it's like that for most people)."
The road begins at globe facing the Dawood Engineering Colllege and ends somewhere near Guru Mandir.
Though Moti Lal Nehru's name was quite carefully removed, not a single signboard or a street sign calls the road the Jigar Muradabadi Road. Some Jamshed Town offices are also located on this road but none of them mentions the name of the road. A library, the Iqbal Library, has a signboard, though. It calls the road the Jigar Muradabadi Road.
