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1960s: Parade at Mazar-e-Quaid - Karachi

 

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Badshahi Masjid Lahore.. 1865

 

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First Prime Minister of Pakistan addressing a public gathering in Kallat , Balochistan. 8th December 1949.

 

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Founding members of the All India Muslim League | White Star

On March 23, 1940, the Pakistan Resolution was passed by the All-India Muslim League's annual session in Lahore. Looking back over the fifty years that have elapsed since that day, one is left with a whole host of mixed feelings. Does the truncated Pakistan of today with its unending cycle of ethnic animosities, it’s mortgaged economy, its opportunist politics and the perpetual shadow of dictatorship hovering over it bear any resemblance at all to the ideals of the movement that gave birth to the country?

To understand the Pakistan Movement and its ideals, it is essential to place the upsurge of Muslim Nationalism at the time in its context.

The hot topic at the time was the place of the Muslims in Indian politics- a subject that provoked a great deal of passionate debate. This was the time when Mohammad Ali Jinnah -subsequently the Quaid-e-Azam -made his famous marathon address in the Strachey Hall of Aligarh University. Although the speech was only partly understood at the time, the effect it had on those present was profound.

This was, in fact, the first lecture -cum-speech delivered by Jinnah after t he passage of the Pakistan Resolution. In it he expounded the theoretical basis for demanding the division of India, a demand that later came to be known as Muslim Nationalism.

 

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Independence Day - 14 August 1947 - Karachi

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Muslim refugee train from Delhi to Lahore . 1947.

A Family reunion at the refugee camp in Lahore c. 1948.

At the time of partition, families lost track of each other. It took months, sometimes years, for the lost members of families to be located again.

 

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S P & D Bank Fleming & Co Office Court House (Kurrachee) Karachi In 1862 : Maybe Bandar Road or I.I. Chundrigarh Road.

 

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The Quaid and Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah on holiday at Cairo, Egypt .

 

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In 1960 Karachi Grammar school.

Karachi Grammar School is an independent, English-medium school in Saddar, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is a highly selective, coeducational day school (formerly day/boarding school) serving approximately 2,400 students aged between three and nineteen years.

Established in 1847 by the Reverend Henry Brereton, the first chaplain of Karachi, as a school for "English and Anglo-Indo children", it is the oldest private school in Pakistan and the second oldest in South Asia,a member of the Winchester International Symposium and a former member of the Headmaster's Conference.

 

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A group photograph of the members of the Pakistan constituent assembly at the governor general's house. Karachi.

 

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President Ayub Khan addressing a ceremony held to mark the inauguration of the Mangla Dam project along the banks of the Jhelum River in 1967. The Dam was an important component of the Indus Waters Treaty.

 

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Leaders of the Pakistan Movement in 1950's

From left Mr. I. I. Chundrigar Governor of NWFP, Sardar Abdul Rab Nishtar Governor of Punjab, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, Governor General Nazimuddin, Sir Malik Feroz Khan Noon Governor of East Bengal, Sheikh Din Muhammad Governor of Sindh and Mian Aminuddin Chief Commissioner of Balochistan.

 

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Dr Allama Iqbal and Maulana Ghulam Rasool Mehr at World Muslim Congress in Jerusalem December 1931

Allama Iqbal accompanied by Mautana Ghulam Rasul Mehr left Cairo for Palestine on the 5th December 1931 an 6 P.M. They reached Jerusalem on the 6th December at 10 A.M. When the train reached Jerusalem it was raining. Mufti Amin ul Hussaini the Mufti of Palestine and other office holders of the World Muslim Congress were present at the railway station to receive the guests.

 

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Remembering a Mentor, a Leader and a Hero!
Happy Birthday Quaid. Thank you for all your struggle and sacrifices. Thank you for Pakistan. May Allah grant you a higher place in Jannah.