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Quaid speaks at a civic reception held in his honour by the Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC) at the KMC headquarters on August 25, 1947. Mayor Hakeem Muhammad Ahsan is seen on the right, while Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan and Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah are on the left, sitting In front of camera Nawab Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan V Abbasi.


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Begum Rana Liaquat Ali Khan (extreme right) sitting in mourning as the body of the slain Prime Minister, Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, lay in state before the burial. He was assassinated on October 16, 1951,


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Begum Rana Liaquat Ali Khan (extreme right) sitting in mourning as the body of the slain Prime Minister, Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, lay in state before the burial. He was assassinated on October 16, 1951,
 
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The Pakistani Objectives Resolution proclaimed the following principles:

  1. Sovereignty over the entire universe belongs to Allah Almighty alone and the authority which He has delegated to the state of Pakistan, through its people for being exercised within the limits prescribed by Him is a sacred trust.
  2. This Constituent Assembly representing the people of Pakistan resolves to frame a constitution for the sovereign independent state of Pakistan.
  3. The state shall exercise its powers and authority through the chosen representatives of the people.
  4. The principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice, as enunciated by Islam, shall be fully observed.
  5. The Muslims shall be enabled to order their lives in the individual and collective spheres in accordance with the teachings and requirements of Islam as set out in the Holy Quran and Sunnah.
  6. Adequate provision shall be made for the minorities to freely progress and practice their religions and develop their cultures.
  7. Pakistan shall be a federation and its constituent units will be autonomous.
  8. Fundamental rights shall be guaranteed. They include equality of status, of opportunity and before law, social, economic and political justice, and freedom of thought, expression, belief, faith, worship and association, subject to law and public morality.
  9. Adequate provisions shall be made to safeguard the legitimate interests of minorities and backward and depressed classes.
  10. The independence of the judiciary shall be fully secured.
  11. The integrity of the territories of the federation, its independence and all its rights, including its sovereign rights on land, sea and air shall be safeguarded.
  12. The people of Pakistan may prosper and attain their rightful and honored place among the nations of the world and make their full contribution towards international peace and progress and happiness of humanity.
 
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Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan's (1st Chief Minister of NWFP/KPK) letter to Quaid e Azam - 16-8-1945


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Very rare pic of great Maulana Shaukat Ali.

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Funeral of Great Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar, #Jerusalem January 4, 1931


Maulana was not only an upright leader, activist, scholar but also a man of letters. His following Urdu stanza about martyrdom of Hussain ibn Ali has been a slogan for many decades now:

قتلِ حسین اصل میں مَرگِ یزید ہے
اسلام زندہ ہوتا ہے ہر کربلا کے بعد



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Khawaja Nazimuddin, the country’s second Governor General who also was the second Prime Minister, seated here in an impressive room of Ahsan Manzil, the ancestral home of his cousin, the Nawab of Dhaka, Khawaja Habibullah Bahadur, who stands on the left with wife Ayesha Begum. Behind the Nawab is Allene Talmey Plaut, associate editor and columnist for Vogue. On the extreme right is Begum Najma Nooruddin, the sister-in-law of Khawaja Nazimuddin. This photograph was taken by Irving Penn in 1947 and was first published in Vogue. At the time, Khawaja Nazimuddin, who had been the Premier of Bengal in British India, was the Chief Minister of East Bengal.


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The Quaid’s speech on industrialisation 1947
L to R : Mr. Fakhruddin Valika, The founder of Pakistan Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Fatima Jinnah.


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Jawaharlal Nehru with Pakistani President Ayub Khan in 1960's, Nehru signed the Indus Water Treaty.


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