 Mubarak Ali has called for the rewriting of the subcontinent's history and correction of what he called "historical aberrations", so that the hatred and misunderstanding prevailing between the people of India and Pakistan could come to an end.He said textbooks in the two countries had been systematically distorted and that the time has come to reverse the trend.Mubarak Ali has said that "any system based on oppression, coercion and authoritarianism [is] the first problem in the way of writing history".