tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23693146749435424242024-03-14T08:42:44.604+05:00Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnahdr.gmdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03936815107844885476noreply@blogger.comBlogger703125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369314674943542424.post-75252807586949534702024-01-19T19:11:00.002+05:002024-01-19T19:11:25.834+05:00Nations are born in the hearts of poets!!!<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXrsLnacO9qBC-nPrVzxhtyu2WuDkH7ssShC1J7Vq5PlwnScNaEytcskIUSJTw4zZ1glsMCfaxdnpBJxFU2dHURkaZLUcra_RRQMrCx4N7GaPoVWXtB33LKMhxd9fAKn2wIKL-6xFTY4TpSJ9ipFQY7DYwzfwgX6pE-qQisUZfRK0v6EkBna3gaGxM8lU/s843/420068130_941005097389165_1808684446488169862_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="843" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXrsLnacO9qBC-nPrVzxhtyu2WuDkH7ssShC1J7Vq5PlwnScNaEytcskIUSJTw4zZ1glsMCfaxdnpBJxFU2dHURkaZLUcra_RRQMrCx4N7GaPoVWXtB33LKMhxd9fAKn2wIKL-6xFTY4TpSJ9ipFQY7DYwzfwgX6pE-qQisUZfRK0v6EkBna3gaGxM8lU/w512-h241/420068130_941005097389165_1808684446488169862_n.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The poetry of Allama Iqbal was a breath of fresh air throughout Pakistan Movement...</span><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; display: inline-flex; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="🇵🇰" class="xz74otr" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t5f/1/16/1f1f5_1f1f0.png" style="border: 0px; object-fit: fill;" width="16" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">...This is the historical and extremely memorable pic of Muslim League session in Sindh held in 1938 that adopted the resolution in favor of devising a scheme in favor of full independence of Muslims of subcontinent and is widely regarded as the forerunner of renowned Lahore resolution of 1940 in which All India Muslim League adopted the resolution in favor of independence of Muslim majority units in subcontinent.......In this extraordinary pic we can see the poetry of Allama Iqbal written on the posters hung above the wall on top....Following verses of Allama Iqbal from his awe-inspiring poetry are inscribed on them:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">تری خاک ميں ہے اگر شرر تو خيال فقر و غنا نہ کر</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">کہ جہاں ميں نان شعير پر ہے مدار قوت حيدری</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Teri Khak Mein Hai Agar Sharar To Khiyal-e-Faqr-o-Ghana Na Kar</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Ke Jahan Mein Naan-e-Shaeer Par Hai Madar-e-Quwwat-e-Haidari</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">And have no thought, if one spark burns in your dust, of wealth or penury;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">for here on earth black peasant bread breeds Hyder’s strength.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">کوئی ایسی طرزِ طواف تُو مجھے اے چراغِ حرم بتا</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">کہ ترے پتنگ کو پھر عطا ہو وہی سرشتِ سمندری</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Koi Aesi Tarz-e-Tawaaf Tu Mujhe Ae Charagh-e-Haram Bata!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Ke Tere Patang Ko Phir Atta Ho Wohi Sarisht-e-Samundari</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Oh lamp Of the shrine! teach me, your circling moth, a way</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Of worship to renew in me that nature which like the salamander feeds on flame.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: (𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴-𝗲-𝗗𝗿𝗮-𝟭𝟱𝟳) 𝗠𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗿 𝗧𝘂</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I had seen pics of Allama Iqbal's poetry inscribed on posters during Lahore resolution in 1940 and during League's Delhi session in 1943 but this is the first time that I pointed out Allama Iqbal's poetry inscribed on the posters during famous Sindh Muslim League Session of 1938 which can be called as the first brick for creation of Pakistan.....Allama Iqbal had died in 1938 in April and this resolution was adopted just few months later in October 1938 in the same year that he died.....Although physical body of Allama Iqbal had died but his poetry was still living and inspiring Muslims for their future in subcontinent....That's why I consider Allama Iqbal as the greatest and most influential poet in the entire South Asian Muslim History of subcontinent......The same role that Hayim Nahman Bialik played for the reawakening of Jewish nation, the same role that Ferdowsi played for the reawakening of Persian nation, the same role that Nietzsche played for the reawakening of German nation, the same role that Sándor Petőfi played for reawakening of the Hungarian nation.....The same role was played by Allama Iqbal for the reawakening of Muslims of Indian subcontinent. I will like to end this post with the following quotation of Allama Iqbal from his diary Stray Reflections written in 1910:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">"Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Pic:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The 1938 session of the Muslim League</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">L to R: Mohammed Ayub Khuhro, Pir Ali Mohammad Rashdi, Allahbaksh Gabole, Mohammad Hashim Gazdar (standing). Haji Abdoola Haroon. M. A. Jinnah (reading newspaper). Mir Ayub (profile), G. H. Hidayetullah, Mir Bandee Ali Talpur.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Credits: M. Hasnain Aziz</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span>dr.gmdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03936815107844885476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369314674943542424.post-64183043045905179102024-01-19T19:06:00.005+05:002024-01-19T19:06:35.141+05:00Central Iqbal Society, Nawab Bahadur Yar Jung & Pakistan Movement<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To commemorate Allama Iqbal, I wish to illuminate the Central Iqbal Society, also recognized as Bazm-e-Iqbal or Bazm-e-Shaheen. This society was established shortly after the passing of Pakistan's spiritual patriarch, Sir Allama Iqbal, in his honour, by Nawab Bahadur Yar Jung. This esteemed society's primary aim was to champion Sir <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Allama Iqbal's literary legacy. The first president of this society was Nawab Bahadur Yar Jung who was succeeded by Nawab Hasan Yar Jung and the Vice President of this society was Moinuddin Cowlas up until the society's formal end in 1948. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The society carried out its works up until the 1948 Operation Polo. The Iqbal society played a key role in advancing the Pakistan Movement in Hyderabad Deccan and continued negotiations with the Nizam of Hyderabad until the annexation of Hyderabad.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">While a comprehensive summary of this society's achievements is beyond the scope of this post, I will share the captivating photographs taken of the society as a testament to its legacy.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Credit: Grandson of Moinuddin Cowlas (Ahmed Moinuddin Cowlas)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Comparing Gandhi and Jinnah is an extremely complex exercise but important for they were, or rather became, the two foci of the freedom movement. Gandhi was doubtless of a very different mould, but he too, like Jinnah, had gained eminence and successfully transited from his Kathiawari origins to become a London barrister before acquiring a political personality. Yet there existed an essential difference here. Gandhi's birth in a prominent family - his father was, after all, a diwan (prime minister) of an Indian state - helped immeasurably.<br>
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No such advantage of birth gave Jinnah a leg up, it was entirely through his endeavours. Gandhi, most remarkably, became a master practitioner of the politics of protest. This he did not do by altering his own nature, or language of discourse, but by transforming the very nature of politics in India. He transformed a people, who on account of prolonged foreign rule had acquired a style of subservience. He shook them out of this long, moral servitude. Gandhi took politics out of the genteel salons, the debating halls and societies to the soil of India, for he, Gandhi - was rooted to that soil, he was of it, he lived the idiom, the dialogue and discourse of that soil: its sweat; its smells and its great beauty and fragrances, too.<br>
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Some striking differences between these two great Indians are lucidly conveyed by Hector Bolitho in In Quest of Jinnah. He writes: 'Jinnah was a source of power'. Gandhi... an 'instrument of it... Jinnah was a cold rationalist in politics - he had a one track mind, with great force behind it'. Then: 'Jinnah was potentially kind, but in behaviour extremely cold and distant.' Gandhi embodied compassion - Jinnah did not wish to touch the poor, but then Gandhi's instincts were rooted in India and life long he soiled his hands in helping the squalid poor.<br>
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Some two decades back, I read a book by Raj Mohan Gandhi, titled <i>Understanding the Muslim Mind</i>. The book is about eight great Indian Muslims, including Muhammad Ali Jinnah
and Liaquat Ali Khan, who shaped the destiny of the Muslims of the
subcontinent. I thought of doing a similar book that would provide
insight into the Kashmir mind. But then I asked myself, could any of
them really be called great men?<br>
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The eight people Raj Mohan Gandhi has written about are truly great
minds and out of them I see Muhammad Ali Jinnah as the greatest, for his
“indomitable will”. Also, as put by his biographer Stanly Wolpert, “his
place of primacy in Pakistan’s history looms like a minaret over the
achievements of all his contemporaries.”<br>
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In my search for finding what was missing in our contemporary
leaders, I found that instead of redeeming people they have pushed them
into a morass of uncertainty. I had an opportunity of finding a Jinnah
outside his famous biographies. In two articles about him, I found a
Jinnah that has hitherto remained eclipsed from people — one by his
sister Fatima Jinnah titled “A businessman Becomes A Barrister” and
another by Sadat Husain Manto called “Jinnah Sahib”.<br>
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His sister says his eager mind was keen to benefit from his visit to
England at a time when the spirit of British liberalism was making
profound impact on the minds of people. He adopted the typically English
habit of reading carefully his morning newspapers. About his joining
the Lincoln’s Inn, Fatima Jinnah quotes his brother as saying, “My
inquiries and discussions made me decide for another inn than Lincoln’s.
But then I saw the name of the great Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) engraved
on the main entrance of Lincoln’s Inn among the great lawgivers of the
world. So I made a sort of vow that I would join Lincoln’s Inn.”<br>
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Saadat Hasan Manto’s writings on Jinnah makes
for an interesting reading in that he talks about the lifestyle of this
great leader, his relations with his sisters other than Fatima Jinnah
and with his servants and drivers. “The Quaid had three sisters, one of
them lived at Chowpati and her husband did not earn much. Jinnah Sahib
would send her some money every month.” Jinnah played billiards and
would hit with precision. Manto also wrote that in politics “the Quaid
never made hasty decision. As in billiards, he would examine the
situation from every angle and only move when he was sure he would get
it right the first time”.<br>
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the death of its founding father, Pakistanis are still searching for
Mohammed Ali Jinnah's vision for the country - and a missing historical
speech.<br>
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During much of its existence, Pakistanis have been encouraged
to believe that Mr Jinnah created Pakistan in the name of Islam as a
theocratic state.<br>
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Others have disagreed, arguing the founding father wanted a Muslim-majority but secular and progressive country.<br>
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The debate over the two competing and contradictory visions
has intensified in recent years as the country reels from growing
Islamic extremism and Taliban militancy.<br>
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At the heart of this debate are some public addresses of Mr Jinnah given around the time of the partition of India in 1947.<br>
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<span class="cross-head">Crucial speech </span><br>
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The archives of state-owned broadcaster, Radio Pakistan, also
contain cranky old audio recordings of most of those speeches, except
for one: his address to the Constituent Assembly in the port city of
Karachi on 11 August 1947, three days before the creation of Pakistan.<br>
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For liberals in Pakistan, it was a crucial speech in which Mr
Jinnah spoke in the clearest possible terms of his dream that the
country he was creating would be tolerant, inclusive and secular.<br>
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"You are free. You are free to go to your temples, you are
free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this
state of Pakistan," Jinnah declared. "You may belong to any religion or
caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the state."<br>
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Documented evidence suggest that Mr Jinnah's words didn't go
down well with the powerful and ambitious religious ideologues around
him at the time, who then made sure the speech was virtually blacked out
in the next day's newspapers.<br>
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The most important and posh area of the capital has a picture of Pakistan’s founding father installed in a frame at the start of the largest road.
The Cinnah Caddesi is a major road located in the heart of Ankara, the capital of Turkey. It is one of the most important arteries of traffic and commerce in the city. It was dedicated to, and named after, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. In Turkish language, Jinnah is spelled as ‘Cinnah’.<br>
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display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Quaid-e-Azam at the Afgan Border (1935)" border="0" alt="Quaid-e-Azam at the Afgan Border (1935)" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_AdwQ4z13x00/TanTEtzsFaI/AAAAAAAADoQ/o5DddyW0y4M/Quaid-e-Azam%20at%20the%20Afgan%20Border%20%281935%29_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="500" height="454" /></a> <strong><font color="#000080">Quaid-e-Azam at the Afgan Border (1935)</font></strong></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_AdwQ4z13x00/TanTHwUZ3qI/AAAAAAAADoU/Stnj9Biry58/s1600-h/Quaid-e-Azam%20receiving%20a%20rifle%20from%20a%20tribal%20chief%5B5%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Quaid-e-Azam receiving a rifle from a tribal chief" border="0" alt="Quaid-e-Azam receiving a rifle from a tribal chief" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_AdwQ4z13x00/TanTLONV__I/AAAAAAAADoY/3fJB71zWbiw/Quaid-e-Azam%20receiving%20a%20rifle%20from%20a%20tribal%20chief_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="500" height="408" /></a> <strong><font color="#000080">Quaid-e-Azam receiving a rifle from a tribal chief</font></strong></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_AdwQ4z13x00/TanTVk8xTnI/AAAAAAAADoc/k4IRdnfB5RA/s1600-h/Quaid-e-Azam%20accepting%20a%20loaf%20of%20bread%20from%20tribesmen%20in%20Khyber%20Agency%5B5%5D.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="Quaid-e-Azam accepting a loaf of bread from tribesmen in Khyber Agency" border="0" alt="Quaid-e-Azam accepting a loaf of bread from tribesmen in Khyber Agency" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_AdwQ4z13x00/TanTczexxVI/AAAAAAAADog/767-6BLfwO4/Quaid-e-Azam%20accepting%20a%20loaf%20of%20bread%20from%20tribesmen%20in%20Khyber%20Agency_thumb%5B3%5D.png?imgmax=800" width="500" height="388" /></a> <strong><font color="#000080">Quaid-e-Azam accepting a loaf of bread from tribesmen in Khyber Agency</font></strong></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_AdwQ4z13x00/TanTeCBvznI/AAAAAAAADok/NRNeJYGFcBk/s1600-h/As%20a%20gesture%20of%20goodwill%2C%20tribal%20leaders%20presenting%20a%20goat%20to%20the%20Quaid%5B5%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="As a gesture of goodwill, tribal leaders presenting a goat to the Quaid" border="0" alt="As a gesture of goodwill, tribal leaders presenting a goat to the Quaid" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_AdwQ4z13x00/TanTiK08LAI/AAAAAAAADoo/fUR8HtvCPTc/As%20a%20gesture%20of%20goodwill%2C%20tribal%20leaders%20presenting%20a%20goat%20to%20the%20Quaid_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="500" height="390" /></a> <strong><font color="#000080">As a gesture of goodwill, tribal leaders presenting a goat to the Quaid</font></strong></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_AdwQ4z13x00/TanTne_AGeI/AAAAAAAADos/QdBByV8mh8k/s1600-h/A%20newspaperreport%20before%20the%20foundation%20of%20Pakistan%20when%20tribal%20delegation%20fromKurram%20fata%20meet%20Quaid%20e%20Azam%20in%20delihi.%5B5%5D.jpg"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="A newspaperreport before the foundation of Pakistan when tribal delegation fromKurram fata meet Quaid e Azam in delihi." border="0" alt="A newspaperreport before the foundation of Pakistan when tribal delegation fromKurram fata meet Quaid e Azam in delihi." src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_AdwQ4z13x00/TanTtLECiqI/AAAAAAAADow/6v1Lx5ha0ho/A%20newspaperreport%20before%20the%20foundation%20of%20Pakistan%20when%20tribal%20delegation%20fromKurram%20fata%20meet%20Quaid%20e%20Azam%20in%20delihi._thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="500" height="394" /></a> <font color="#000080"><strong>A newspaper report before the foundation of Pakistan when tribal delegation from Kurram fata meet Quaid e Azam in delihi.</strong></font></p>dr.gmdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03936815107844885476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369314674943542424.post-37215016856629111812011-04-06T08:26:00.002+05:002011-04-06T08:28:15.119+05:00Statement On the success of League's Lahore Session (March 22-23, 1940)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yu6sEH5l4C4/S8lmSkPCb5I/AAAAAAAACJU/V7HtOWYjxWs/s1600/p0601060501.jpg" target="_blank" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yu6sEH5l4C4/S8lmSkPCb5I/AAAAAAAACJU/V7HtOWYjxWs/s1600/p0601060501.jpg" /></a></div><b>Summing up his impression about the League Session the Quaid said:</b><br />
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“The first thing that has emerged from this session of the All-India Muslim League is that the entire body of delegates in the open session and the vast public accepted the resolution moved by the chair, also unanimously. This has shown beyond doubt that the Musalmans are capable of standing and going through an order and trial worthy of any great organization."<br />
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<hr /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Paksitan Visions, An International Journal of Pakistan Affair (Quaid-i-Azam Number), Vol. II, No. 1 & 2 January-july 2001, Lahore</span>dr.gmdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03936815107844885476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369314674943542424.post-29454352943616270602011-04-06T08:22:00.000+05:002011-04-06T08:22:18.375+05:00Pakistan Resolution Lahore : March 23, 1940<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xkwb63KtoBE/TRJjVz4rMjI/AAAAAAAACkA/fJu5vZWbSTk/s1600/Nawab+Mamdot+welcoming+the+Quaid%252C+Lahore+March+1940.jpg" target="_blank" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xkwb63KtoBE/TRJjVz4rMjI/AAAAAAAACkA/fJu5vZWbSTk/s400/Nawab+Mamdot+welcoming+the+Quaid%252C+Lahore+March+1940.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>As soon as the All-India Muslim League, at its Lahore Session in March 1940, adopted the resolution there was a hysterical outburst in Congress and other Hindu circles. Without pausing to consider the merits of the proposal they began to decry and oppose it tooth and nail. The Quaid in a statement appealed to the better mind of the Hindu and other communities to give serious consideration to the Pakistan Resolution as the only way of achieving India’s freedom at an early date. He said:<br />
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“I still hope at any rate the better mind of the Hindus will give earnest and serious consideration to our proposals as there lies the achievement of India’s freedom at the earliest possible period. This freedom we shall be able to retain peacefully both internally and externally.”<br />
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<hr /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Paksitan Visions, An International Journal of Pakistan Affair (Quaid-i-Azam Number), Vol. II, No. 1 & 2 January-july 2001, Lahore</span>dr.gmdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03936815107844885476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369314674943542424.post-76471990178176357402011-04-06T08:16:00.000+05:002011-04-06T08:16:32.594+05:00Two-Nation Theory.<br />
<b>Excerpt from the Presidential Address delivered by the Quaid-i-Azam</b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-msE3wYoe3CQ/S8llzIVV-uI/AAAAAAAACJU/vlNoCVyILok/s1600/pak-resolution.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-msE3wYoe3CQ/S8llzIVV-uI/AAAAAAAACJU/vlNoCVyILok/s1600/pak-resolution.jpg" /></a></div>"It is extremely difficult to appreciate why our Hindu friends fail to understand the real nature of Islam and Hinduism. They are not religious in the strict sense of the word, but are, in fact, different and distinct social orders; and it is only a dream that the Hindus and Muslims can ever evolve a common nationality. This misconception of one Indian Nation has troubles and will lead India to destruction if we fail to revise our notions in time. The Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs, literatures. They neither intermarry nor interdine together and, indeed, they belong to two different civilizations which are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions. Their aspect on life are different. It is quite clear that Hindus and Mussalmans derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different epics, different heroes, and different episodes. Very often the hero of one is a foe of the other and, likewise, their victories and defeats overlap. To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority, must lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any fabric that may be so built for the government of such a state.” <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Presidential Address by the Quaid-i-Azam, Lahore March 22-23, 1940)</span></i><br />
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<hr /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Paksitan Visions, An International Journal of Pakistan Affair (Quaid-i-Azam Number), Vol. II, No. 1 & 2 January-july 2001, Lahore</span>dr.gmdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03936815107844885476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369314674943542424.post-17619913218593223952011-04-06T07:47:00.000+05:002011-04-06T07:47:50.303+05:00Statement Asking Muslims Of India To Observe November 1st As "Muslim Countries Day"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ze-3hQ8nujA/TZvT-xpS7TI/AAAAAAAADn8/St16JBayduE/s1600/2005061907400101.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ze-3hQ8nujA/TZvT-xpS7TI/AAAAAAAADn8/St16JBayduE/s320/2005061907400101.jpg" width="181" /></a></div>Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, President of the All-India Muslim League, has announced that November 1st should be observed as: “The day for the purpose of expressing and demonstrating the deep feeling of sympathy and concern of Muslim India, with the Muslim countries against any possible design or aggression upon the sovereignty and independence of those countries.”<br />
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The Council of the All-India Muslim League at its last meeting resolved that “in view of the repeated reports that have reached India recently that there is probability of war flames spreading and of aggression by Foreign Powers against the independence and sovereignty of the Muslim countries such as Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Turkey,” the President of the Muslim League should fix a day “for the purpose of expressing and demonstrating deep sympathy and concern of Muslim India with Muslim countries and also conveying to those who have any such design that in the event of any attack upon Muslim countries Muslim India would be forced to stand by them and give all the support it can….”<br />
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“I am enclosing a copy of the resolution of the Council of All-India Muslim League herewith, which should be supported and confirmed in public meetings throughout every province on that day and also I hope that during the Friday prayers special prayers will be offered in all the mosques throughout all the provinces for the safety and integrity of the sovereignty and independence of Muslim countries.<br />
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“I hope that this earnest appeal of mine will receive the fullest support of Muslims generally and of the Muslim League in particular and that this day will be observed in a manner worthy of Islamic traditions.”<br />
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<hr /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: South Asian Studies: bi-annual Research Journal, Vol. 17,No. 1 (Quaid-i-Azam Number) January 2002, PP. 92. Also cited in The Star of India, October 12, 1940.</span>dr.gmdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03936815107844885476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369314674943542424.post-22351446478389135802011-04-06T07:41:00.000+05:002011-04-06T07:41:54.097+05:00Statement Regarding Palestine Conference Bombay, January 30, 1939<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RGxizEDM26g/TP90lmcVIhI/AAAAAAAACJU/MAbRWY5c0D8/s1600/1377774064_7ea7ad09f5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RGxizEDM26g/TP90lmcVIhI/AAAAAAAACJU/MAbRWY5c0D8/s320/1377774064_7ea7ad09f5.jpg" width="277" /></a></div>"In view of the forthcoming Palestine Conference, which is going to take place on or about February 7, 1939 in London, I have sent the following telegram to Mr. Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of Great Britain: the Secretary of State for India and Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, the Minister for Colonies:<br />
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"The All-India Muslim League urges upon His Majesty’s Government to give representation to the Muslim League on the Palestine Conference and concede the Palestine National Arab demands. Muslim India is most anxiously awaiting results. I cannot by means of a telegram express adequately and impress the intensity of feeling prevailing throughout India. The failure of the Conference will be most disastrous throughout the Muslim world, resulting in grave consequences. I trust that this earnest appeal will receive your serious consideration."<br />
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<hr /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: South Asian Studies: bi-annual Research Journal, Vol. 17,No. 1 (Quaid-i-Azam Number) January 2002, PP. 91. Also cited in The Civil & Military Gazette, February 1, 1939.</span>dr.gmdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03936815107844885476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369314674943542424.post-71342890596092538672011-04-06T07:35:00.001+05:002011-04-06T07:35:54.059+05:00Statement On The Palestine Problem Bombay: November 10, 1938<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fkJuDg2yAZk/TQ8BrutElrI/AAAAAAAACcc/T60RNgnXXf8/s1600/Quaid-e-Azam+in+his+Dehli+home%252C+1945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="257" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fkJuDg2yAZk/TQ8BrutElrI/AAAAAAAACcc/T60RNgnXXf8/s320/Quaid-e-Azam+in+his+Dehli+home%252C+1945.jpg" width="320"></a></div>The view that Muslims of India are solidly behind the struggle which the Arabs are carrying on in Palestine for their freedom was expressed by Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, President of the All India Muslim League. Commenting on the declaration of policy by His Majesty’s Government on the Palestine problem, the Quaid said:<br>
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"I feel that Arab leaders of Palestine and the neighboring States will be far more competent to deal with the matter than any Indian can from this distance, as they not only are fully competent but also understand the situation on the spot better. I would not, therefore, at this stage venture to make any suggestion of a concrete nature, but would like to make it clear that Muslims of India are solidly behind the struggle which the Arabs are carrying on for their freedom. Their feelings and sentiments have been repeatedly presented to the British Government".<br>
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"Only in September last, in a long interview with His Excellency the Viceroy, I conveyed to him and the Government of India the intensity of the feeling in India on this matter. It has been the greatest difficulty with us during the last few months to restrain and to hold the Muslims of India from openly revolting. The way in which the British Government have hitherto dealt with the Arabs is the greatest blot on their national honour. I trust that the British nation and His Majesty’s Government will make the fullest amends for their past mistakes before it is too late and not take shelter under the plea of that most unjust Balfour Declaration, which never ought to have been made, and further the plea of appeasing international Jewry.<br>
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He added: “But you must have a little patience and give us time to make the effort to give effect to those declarations. I assure you of our goodwill and solicitude for the welfare of the Scheduled Castes in particular, as you have been downtrodden for countries, deserve more help than any other community. I have always advocated your cause and I shall continue to do so.”<br />
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In regard to their proposal that two Scheduled Caste Ministers should be included in the East Bengal Ministry, the Quaid-i-Azam said: “It is not that we are against including the Scheduled Castes in the Ministry, but the present position of the Schedule Castes in the Assembly is that you have only five members who follow you out of 19. We are after all working on the lines of democracy and if we were to take one of those five, it would neither be good for you nor for the East Bengal Ministry, because it will at once be said, as far as we are considered, that he was only a creature of the Bengal Prime Minister who had picked him up, whereas he did not enjoy the confidence of the overwhelming majority of the Scheduled Caste members of the Assembly. This has been one of the difficulties in our way for which we ourselves are most anxious for a solution.<br />
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<hr /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: South Asian Studies: bi-annual Research Journal, Vol.17, No. 1 (Quaid-i-Azam Number) January 2002, PP. 89-90. Also cited in The Pakistan Times, March 24, 1948.</span>dr.gmdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03936815107844885476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369314674943542424.post-76905230404207910852011-04-04T02:09:00.002+05:002011-04-04T02:09:53.650+05:00Statement On Protection For Minorities In Pakistan<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-urpX4jaRUJg/TXvAHqeEWEI/AAAAAAAADiY/9TCTgoTpe3I/s1600/Quaid-e-Azam+with+representatives+of+minorities.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="258" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-urpX4jaRUJg/TXvAHqeEWEI/AAAAAAAADiY/9TCTgoTpe3I/s320/Quaid-e-Azam+with+representatives+of+minorities.jpg" width="320"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quaid-e-Azam with the representatives of Minorities</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Governor General designate of Pakistan, at a press conference, assured the minorities in the Pakistan Dominion that they would have protection with regard to their religion, faith, life, property and culture. They would, in all respects be citizens of Pakistan without any discrimination and no doubt along with it they would have the obligations of citizenship. The minorities would have to be loyal to the State and owe true allegiance to the State.<br>
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The same principle, the Quaid emphasized, would apply to the minorities in India as well. One cannot have minorities disloyal to the State and sabotaging the state. Every citizen must be loyal to his State.<br>
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<b>Citizens of Pakistan</b><br>
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<b>Question : Could you as Governor General make a brief statement on the minorities problems?</b><br>
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<b>The Quaid:</b> At present I am only Governor-General designate. We will assume for moment that on August 15, I shall be really the Governor-General of Pakistan. On that assumption, let me tell you that I shall not depart from what I said repeatedly with regard to the minorities. Every time I spoke about the minorities I meant what I said and what I said I meant.<br>
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Minorities to whichever community they may belong; will be safeguarded. Their religion or faith or belief will be secure. There will be no interference of any kind with their freedom of worship. They will have their protection with regard to their religion, faith, their life, their culture. They will be, in all respects, the citizens of Pakistan without any distinction of caste or creed.<br>
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They will have their rights and privileges and no doubt, along with it goes the obligation of citizenship. Therefore, the minorities have their responsibilities also and they will play their part in the affairs of this state. As long as the minorities are loyal to the State and owe true allegiance and as long as I have any power, they need have no apprehension of any kind.<br>
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"I hope that the Maharaja and the Prime Minister of Kashmir will realize the fast changing circumstances and wisdom demands that the feelings and sentiments of the Muslims who form 80 per cent of the population should not be ignored, much less hurt.<br />
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"The second question that is engaging the attention of the Muslims of Kashmir is whether Kashmir is going to join the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. I have already made it clear more than once that the Indian States are free to join either the Pakistan Constituent Assembly or the Hindustan Constituent Assembly or remain independent. I have no doubt that the Maharaja and the Kashmir government will give their attention and consideration to this matter and realize the interests not only of the Ruler but also of his people. We have made it clear that we are not going to coerce, intimidate or put any pressure on any State making its choice. But those states who wish to join the Pakistan Constituent Assembly will find us ready and willing to negotiate with them agreement for the mutual advantage of both. Those who wish to declare their complete independence may be beneficial for both and secure mutual and reciprocal interest."<br />
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<hr /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: South Asian Studies: bi-annual Research Journal, Vol.17, No. 1 (Quaid-i-Azam Number) January 2002, PP. 84-85 Also cited in The Star of India, July 13, 1947</span>dr.gmdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03936815107844885476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369314674943542424.post-31587251957544632872011-04-01T18:20:00.001+05:002011-04-01T18:21:24.187+05:00Statement On The Situation In The Frontier Province New Delhi : May 7, 1947<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quaid-e-Azam with members of NWFP Assembly in Peshawar</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, President of the All India Muslim League, issued a thousand words Statement on the Frontier.<br>
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"I have had the opportunity of fully discussing with Frontier League leaders the situation in the North-West Frontier Province and the developments that have taken place recently. The League movement in the Frontier was started because the people and especially the Muslim Leaguers and the League organization in the Province were sought to be crushed by Khan Sahib Ministry, by fair means or foul, ever since the ministry was formed. The victimization, persecution, suppression and oppression on the part of the Government, knew no limits.<br>
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“Every vestige of civil liberties had ceased to exist. Ordinances, Frontier Crimes Regulations, Section 144 and other repressive provisions of the law were being freely and ruthlessly used to deprive the people of their rights of political expression and criticism of the ministry. These were the conditions prevailing in the Province when the top-ranking leaders of the Muslim League were arrested for asserting their right of civil liberties, and the resentment caused among the people assumed the character of mass civil disobedience. It is absolutely false and a complete misrepresentation of the facts that the All-India Muslim League ever decided to actually resort to direct action. The Bombay Resolution of 29 July 1946, merely indicated a change of policy, by it we declared that we would no longer be restricted to constitutional methods which had been scrupulously followed by the All-India Muslim League up to that time."<br>
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"The Congress creed, on the other hand not only permitted them to resort to unlawful means, but it was of the very essence of the organization that they were free to resort to mass civil disobedience at any time they considered proper for the achievement of their objectives through coercive methods.<br>
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“I have been receiving reports of very grave and serious character of killing and destruction of property from the Muslim minority provinces such as Bihar, U.P., C.P., Madras and Bombay and I assure the Muslims of minority provinces that it was not due to indifferent or neglect that I have been queit. The matter is receiving my most careful attention and consideration.<br />
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<b>Enquiries by the League</b><br />
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“It was arranged that four members of the Interior Central Government should go to Patna. Besides Mr. Muhammad Nauman, M.L.A. (Central) has been deputed by the Muslim League Party in the Central Assembly to go to Bihar and enquiries are being made with regard to those parts of U.P., C.P., Bihar, Madras and Bombay where disturbances have taken place, including East Bengal and Calcutta.<br />
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“I shall await the reports of our representatives Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan and Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar on their arrival here. I naturally am very deeply grieved to hear of the brutal and outrageous happenings. At present I can only ask the Muslims to remain calm and peaceful and bear it with patience, however aggressive or provocative may be the attitude of other people”.<br />
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<hr /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: South Asian Studies: bi-annual Research Journal, Vol.17, No. 1 (Quaid-i-Azam Number) January 2002, PP. 80 Also cited in Dawn, November 3, 1946. </span>dr.gmdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03936815107844885476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369314674943542424.post-88178401279644252011-04-01T17:46:00.001+05:002011-04-01T17:47:01.167+05:00Statement Regarding Kashmir Affairs New Delhi: November 2, 1946<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v6Cmhrrhk-Y/S8cNzWF3KDI/AAAAAAAACJU/ZCeYwgcYrg0/s1600/review36b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v6Cmhrrhk-Y/S8cNzWF3KDI/AAAAAAAACJU/ZCeYwgcYrg0/s1600/review36b.jpg"></a></div>Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, President All-India Muslim League issued the following statement to the Press:<br>
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“I have had an opportunity of meeting the deputation on behalf of the All-Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Committee and I deeply regret that the Kashmir Government should have thought it fit to ban the annual session of the Conference.<br>
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“It is opposed to the elementary principles of Liberty. The people have every right to meet in a peaceful manner and express and ventilate their grievance and criticize the policy and actions of any civilized Government.<br>
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“It is regrettable that the foremost leader of the Conference should have been arrested and detained without any trial and from all accounts that I have received, the Prime Minister Mr. Kak, and the Government are pursuing a policy of suppressing free expression of opinion resorting to unjustifiable methods of terrorism and gagging free expression of opinion on the eve of the coming elections.<br>
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I therefore, appeal to the Maharaja to interfere in the matter immediately and allow the forthcoming elections to be free and fair and release all the detenus and see that effect has been given to the spirit and the letter of such reforms as he has already introduced”.<br>
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.dr.gmdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03936815107844885476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369314674943542424.post-60833405390349293712011-03-26T22:37:00.000+05:002011-03-26T22:37:30.775+05:00Keeping Traditions Alive - Qaraquli Jinnah Cap<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="590" height="473" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qGSqZhu5nwU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
.dr.gmdchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03936815107844885476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2369314674943542424.post-18335268676683150422011-03-25T01:55:00.001+05:002011-03-25T01:55:49.067+05:0023rd March 1940: What Our Youth Must Know About?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tSg6e5DeEVY/TYuvoL2TsUI/AAAAAAAADnc/7gj_azI2Scs/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tSg6e5DeEVY/TYuvoL2TsUI/AAAAAAAADnc/7gj_azI2Scs/s1600/images.jpg"></a></div><span id="goog_1557558312"></span><span id="goog_1557558313"></span><span id="goog_557885079"></span><span id="goog_557885080"></span><span id="goog_168948739"></span><span id="goog_168948740"></span><span id="goog_1695271030"></span><span id="goog_1695271031"></span>The Pakistani youth of today seem to be simply ignorant of the historical background of the creation of Pakistan. The reason is mostly to do with detest of theirs for Pakistan Studies while at schools. Based on my interaction with many of them, it is my considered opinion that there is a weakness and void out there amongst our youth vis- -vis history of Pakistan.<br>
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On this historic day of 23rd March 'also known as Pakistan Day' I therefore thought to write something for educating my youth on the significance of this day.<br>
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The youth of today must know that Pakistan owes her creation to four erstwhile outstanding Muslim leaders, namely: Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-98), Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878-1931), Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948), and Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938). These leaders provided intellectual and political leadership to Indian Muslims during about ninety years (1858-1947) of the British imperial rule on the Sub-continent.<br>
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It is important for them to also know that in the beginning all of these aforementioned leaders were thorough-bred nationalists at one time or another. By being nationalist means they were the proponents of a united India. Now it should not come as a surprise for our young men and women to learn that over the passage of time our leaders got disillusioned with this concept of one united India. The reasons were many. It could have been either because of Hindu ethnocentrism in the late 19th century or Congress`s championing of unitary Hindu nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s.<br>
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Now let us focus our discussion exclusively on our great leader and founder of Pakistan 'Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah'. It is very important for the youths to understand the elements of the crest and the troughs in the political leanings and ideologies of Quaid-e-Azam over his long career from 1904 thru 1948. It is interesting to note here that for some seventeen years (1904-1920), he was pro-Congress, pleading the Congress cause and envisioning a truly nationalist destiny for India.<br>
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And, still for another sixteen years (1921-37), though he was practically out of Congress as he had joined All India Muslim League in 1920, he was still working for a nationalist destiny. During this period, he was still striving for a Hindu-Muslim settlement and he was still collaborating with the Congress and its leadership for the same. It is also very well known that in pursuit of his mission of Hindu-Muslim unity, he had devised several constitutional formulae, but all to no avail. It is also pertinent to mention here that till early 1937, Quaid-e-Azam was still in his "nationalist" self; preaching his credo eloquently and trying miserably to unite Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. For this he was widely known as the ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity.<br>
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Hindus and Muslims had lived in India for centuries but had remained two distinctly different cultural entities presenting marked dissimilarities that neither time nor assimilation could erase; they were like two streams running a parallel course. So manifest and so profound were the differences that the London Times, commenting on the Government of India Act of 1935, had to ungrudgingly concede: “Undoubtedly the difference between the Hindus and Muslims is not of religion in the strict sense of the word but also of laws and culture, that they may be said indeed to represent two entirely distinct and separate civilizations.”<br>
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This incontrovertible realization found a more convincing elucidation in the words of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah: “Notwithstanding thousand years of close contact, nationalities which are as divergent today as ever, cannot at any time be expected to transform themselves into one nation merely by mean of subjecting them to a democratic constitution and holding them forcibly together by unnatural and artificial methods of British Parliamentary Statutes.”<br>
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The background of Pakistan Resolution is such that in 1937, provincial autonomy was introduced in the sub-continent under the Government of India Act, 1935. The elections of 1937 provided the Congress with a majority in six provinces, where Congress governments were formed. This led to the political, social, economic and cultural suppression of the Muslims in the Congress ruled provinces.<br>
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The Congress contemptuously rejected the Muslim League’s offer of forming coalition ministries. The Muslims were subjected not only to physical attacks but injustice and discriminatory treatment as regards civil liberties, economic measures and employment and educational opportunities. The Congress Ministries introduced the Wardha scheme of education, the object of which was to “de- Muslimize” the Muslim youth and children.<br>
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Ian Stephens, former editor of the newspaper “Statesman” and an eyewitness to the working of the Congress Ministries, says: "The effect of this simultaneously on many Muslim minds was of a lightning flash.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quaid-e-Azam with a group of Quetta students</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Quaid-e-Azam’s care, consideration and counselling for children, especially for youth, knew no bounds. There is one enlightening story after another how he advised, counselled, groomed and rejuvenated the young nation during Pakistan Movement and for the future.<br>
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Once, in April, 1945, the Quaid visited a school in Qalat, Balochistan, with his host, Khan of Qalat. As a little boy shook hands with him, the Quaid pointed towards the Khan of Qalat and asked this boy as to he was. The boy replied, “Our king”. Next Quaid-e-Azam inquired with the little boy about himself and asked whether the boy knew him. The boy answered, “you are our king’s guest”. Finally, the Quaid asked the boy to introduce himself. The boy said,” I am a Baloch”. At this point, the Quaid gestured towards the Khan of Qalat and earnestly requested him to tell children that they were first Muslims and later the rest of the identities.<br>
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Among Muslim League’s monumental problems at the threshold of independence was scarcity of resources as the young nation was all set to embark on the road to development. It was at a Muslim League crucial meeting at the Sindh Government House Karachi, attended by Ghulam Hussain Hiddayat, Chief Minister of Sindh and Shaheed Soharwardi, that the Quaid advised the young nation to practice austerity, economise resources and believe in the magical principle of self-help, self-reliance and self-actualisation. <br>
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The importance Quaid-e-Azam attached to the youth and the inspiration he provided them need no introduction. When, in 1941, Raja Ghazanfar Ali, the Quaid’s close aide and admirer and Sir Sikandar Hayyat, chief minister of Punjab, desired to meet the Quaid, who was then attending the annual congregation of Muslim Students’ Federation in Lahore, the Quaid politely refused to give them appointments and requested them to check for his schedule with the office-bearers of the MSF who were coordinating all his appointments during this period.<br>
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