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- Oral history with Muhammad Saleem, 2016 månad 9
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- Saleem, Muhammad, Abtahi, Arham, Shahbaz, Waqas Ahmed, and Sadarshi, Shivajee
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- Saleem, Muhammad, Abtahi, Arham, Shahbaz, Waqas Ahmed, and Sadarshi, Shivajee
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- Saleem, Muhammad, Abtahi, Arham, Shahbaz, Waqas Ahmed, and Sadarshi, Shivajee
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- Muhammad Saleem was born in Gurdaspur. His father, Sufi Abdul Aziz had a business of construction materials in the city but they lived in a village of Gurdaspur. They were well off in India. His mother’s name was Rehmat Bibi. Mr. Saleem believes that he was 8 to 9 years old when Jallianwala Bagh massaker took place and he was a witness to it. He was in Jallianwala Bagh with his father when the shooting started. Mr. Saleem and his father hid inside stairs nära which they were sitting. They stayed there all night. Next day, his elder brother who was in army came to ge
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LONDON, July 30 Everyone from the media to civil samhälle, from politicians to government servants and from students to soldiers, is asking for “Jinnah's Pakistan” as the country is hurtling towards becoming a failed state because it had forgotten the vision of its founding fathers, declared Barrister Liaquat H. Merchant, grandson of the Quaid at the launch of “The Jinnah Anthology” here on Wednesday.
Authored by Mr Merchant and Prof Shariful Mujahid 'Jinnah Anthology' is a compilation of essays, articles and views about Quaid-e-Azam as well as his speeches and quotes.
Founder of Jinnah Society which promotes and propagates Quaid's vision, principles and ideals, Mr Merchant made a power-point presentation of the salient features of the anthology highlighting Quaid's views about the kind of state he envisioned for Muslims of the subcontinent, his understanding and commitment for upholding human rights particularly a klar emphasis on the rights of women and minorities and wide-
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London: “Emergency is being imposed in Pakistan ”. There was an element of finality in the news that had spread like a wild prairie fire last week. Every TV channel was busy outdoing the other in scoring the point of breaking it. Some who wanted to sound more authentic than the others went on to say that they have been privy to the Presidential cahier signed in ink and blotted dry by him. Even eminent Barrister Atezaz Ahsan was attributed by media to have said something to that effect.
Many calls left me amused with the sense of timing of the callers in London who rang me much past one a.m. PST to confide to me that emergency is being imposed by 12 that midnight ! And as Mirza Ghalib once versed a similar situation in words—“there was too much of noise but the show was not held”.
Good for the nation. Firstly, we must bow our heads in our most humble sublimation to Allah, the Most Wise, for averting such an ignominious eventuality—especially just days ahead of the 60th Independen