- 23 october 1944 edition of life magazine trial#
- 23 october 1944 edition of life magazine series#
- 23 october 1944 edition of life magazine free#
23 october 1944 edition of life magazine free#
On August 11, 1947, in a historic reiteration of his political creed, he tells the Constituent Assembly: “You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan.
23 october 1944 edition of life magazine trial#
Although governance and law-making are the sole prerogative of the people’s elected representatives, as long ago as 1919, he tells the Imperial Legislative Council that “no man should lose his liberty or be deprived of his liberty without a judicial trial in accordance with the accepted rules of evidence and procedure.”Īlthough Mr Jinnah repeatedly avers that Islam has taught us “equality, justice and fair play”, he makes it clear that Pakistan will not be a theocratic state. Today, as Pakistanis celebrate the 70th year of their country’s existence, it is worthwhile to ponder on the legacy of Mr Jinnah, the man who founded what in 1947 is the world’s largest Muslim state.Īn uncompromising adherence to the rule of law, freedom of speech and conscience, social justice and equality for all citizens, are the essence of his legacy a legacy he wants the nation of Pakistan to uphold in the future.
23 october 1944 edition of life magazine series#
This photo, which appears on the cover of the Januedition of Life magazine, is part of a series taken by Margaret Bourke-White for the magazine. Excerpted with permission from Witness to Life and Freedom, Roli Books, Delhi Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah is seated with the Pakistan flag draped behind him in Karachi in December 1947. On the same day, Indian troops under the guise of police action, march into the Princely State of Hyderabad, and annex the state to India. The next day, Dawn pronounces “The Quaid-i-Azam is dead.
Nine months later, on September 11, 1948, Mr Jinnah surrenders to a prolonged bout of tuberculosis, an illness that afflicts him over the last decade of his life, and is kept a secret. (Your breath alone is sufficient for the nation, oh Quaid-i-Azam/ You alone have been the binding force for the nation, oh Quaid-i-Azam.) The words of the poem are: Millat kay liye aaj ghaneemat hai tera dumm, Aey Quaid-i-Azam/Sheeraza-e-Millat ko kiya tu ne faraham, aey Quaid-i-Azam. He leaves early to attend a private birthday party given by his colleague, Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah.Īs the Commander of the Sind Women’s National Guard, Pasha Haroon sings a birthday poem written for him by a poet in Lahore he is visibly embarrassed and keeps knotting the napkin placed before him on the table. Later, Mr Jinnah attends the official reception at Governor-General House. Those were days of hope six years later, Dawn, published by Pakistan Herald Limited Karachi, is a living reality. He has come a long way from when he founded Dawn Weekly in October 1941.
The newspaper item on the front page congratulates Mr Jinnah on his 71st birthday, and there is a trace of a whimsical smile on his lips. And yet, at the behest of his colleagues, he picks up the copy of Dawn at his side and agrees to be photographed reading it. Never in his career has Mr Jinnah ever endorsed what today we would consider to be a ‘product’ or ‘brand’. They find him reading the morning’s edition of Dawn.Īs he reminisces about the heady days when Dawn is founded in Delhi, he expresses his satisfaction that the title and the ethos of Dawn are preserved and are prospering in Karachi.Īnd then something unusual happens. The morning starts when a smal delegation of journalists from Dawn Karachi, led by the editor, Altaf Husain, calls on him to express their best wishes. Mr Jinnah’s first birthday in Pakistan on December 25, 1947, is tragically his last one too. In the photograph above, courtesy Dawn/White Star Archives, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah reads Dawn on his 71st birthday. TOWARDS THE FUTURE DECEMMR JINNAH’S LAST BIRTHDAY This feature covers 42 years from 1906 to 1948, an astonishingly short period of time, during which the freedom movement emerged and subsequently achieved the creation of a separate Muslim state under the dynamic leadership of Mohammad Ali Jinnah - the Quaid-i-Azam - the monumental founder of this nation.Īs the nation marks its 70th year, Pakistan’s story becomes your story. It is estimated that over 15 million people were displaced during the Partition of the Indian subcontinent and two million lost their lives in the ensuing communal violence.
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