By Professor Sharif al Mujahid
"We want peace. But if war is forced upon us, we accept it." With this telling couplet from the immoral Firdausi did the Quaid closehis memorable speech to the Muslim League Council meeting in Bombay on July 29,1946. And, to be sure, this couplet represented the bitter Muslim mood at the British acquiescence at the Congress's distortion of the Cabinet Mission plan (1946).
Muslim bitterness at Congress "duplicity" and British "perfidy" led to revoke of their earlier decision to accept the Plan, revert to their original demand and reaffirm their faith in a sovereign, independent Pakistan. Earlier that evening, the League Council had taken a bold decision: it said good-bye to constitutionalism and sanctioned Direct Action for the first time in all its annals, and this to wrest Pakistan. "...Now the time has come" so ran the League resolution, "for the Muslim nation to resort to Direct Action, to achieve Pakistan, to assert their just rights, to vindicate their honour and get rid of the British slavery and contemplated future caste-Hindu domination."
The Last Journey
The Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah , who changed the destiny of the Muslims of the South-Asia Subcontinent, breathed his last on 11 September, 1948 |
Liaquat Ali Khan stands beside the Janaza of the Quaid-e-Azam. The huge crowd of mourners can be seen in the background |
Fatima Jinnah and Quaid's daughter Dina (extreme left) weep as the body of the Quaid is being lowered in the grave |
Rose petals are being showered on the Quaid's grave |
The Governor General of Pakistan
Quaid-e-Azam arrived at the Karachi Airport |
Listening to the Address of Lord Mountbatten in the Constituent Assembly on 14 August, 1947 |
The Quaid-e-Azam and Fatima Jinnah, Karachi, 14 August, 1947 |
Quaid-e-Azam replying to the Address by Lord Mountbatten in Constituent Assembly on 14 August,1947 |
Quaid-e-Azam being administered the oath of office of the Governor Genral by the Chief Justice of Pakistan |
Signing the register as the first Governor General of the newly created State of Pakistan |
Quaid-e-Azam and Liaqat Ali Khan in the Constituent Assembly,1947 |
Quaid and Fatima Jinnah arriving at the Independence Day Celebrations |
Presiding over a Session of the Constituent Assembly |
Quaid-e-Azam at a function at the Governor General House,karachi |
Inspecting a contingent of the Pakistan Navy |
Guard of Honour being presented to the Quaid-e-Azam as the Governor General of Pakistan |
At the Naval Base at Karachi,1947 |
Arriving the Civic Reception given in his honour by the Karachi Municipal Corporation in Augest,1947 |
Gala independence Day on 14 August,1947,in the Governor General House in Karachi |
Replying to the Civic Address at the Karachi Municipal Corporation |
With the Vice-Chancellor of the Punjab University,1947 |
Cutting his Birthday cake on 25 December,1947 in Karachi |
Quaid-e-Azam and Fatima Jinnah at a diplomatic reception at Karachi |
The Quaid and Fatima Jinnah at preview of a documentary film "In Our Midst" at a cinema house in Karachi(1948) |
At a reception at the Sindh Chief Court at Karachi |
The Quaid commissioning a Naval Ship(dilawar) |
Arrives to attend a Scout Rally at Karachi |
Addressing the Shahi Darbar at Sibi |
With a group of Quetta Students |
Watching a sports meet at Sibi in March,1948 |
Addressing a huge public meeting at Chittagong,1948 |
Quaid-e-Azam witnessing a parade of Ack Ack Regiment,Karachi, 1948 |
Inspecting an Anti-Aircraft Gun at Malir ,Karachi |
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