Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah

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Recording of the Quaid-e-Azam's speech at a mammoth public meeting in Lahore on 30th October 1947. Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA

Recording of the Quaid-e-Azam's Address to the people of Punjab through Pakistan Broadcasting Service (Lahore Station) on 31st October 1947. Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA

Recording of the Quaid-e-Azam's Address to the people of Dhaka in Dhaka on 21st March 1948. Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA

Recording of the Quaid-e-Azam's Speech at a public meeting in Chittagong, in March 1948. Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA

Recording of the Quaid-e-Azam's Address to the students of the Dhaka University at Dhaka, in March 1948. Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA

Broadcast Speech from Radio Pakistan, Dhaka on 28th March, 1948. During the past nine days that I have spent in your province, I have been studying your local conditions and some of the problems that confront east Bengal. Tonight, on the eve of my departure, I want to place before you some of my impressions. Before I do this, however, let me first cordially thank you for the great warmth and affection with which you have received me everywhere in your midst during my stay here. From the administrative point of view, East Bengal perhaps more than any other province of Pakistan, has had to face the most difficult problems as a result of Partition. Before August 14, it existed merely as a hinterland to Calcutta, to whose prosperity it greatly contributed but which it did not share. On August 14, Dhaka was merely a mofussil town, having none of the complex facilities and amenities, which are essential for the capital of a modern Government. Further, owing to partition, the province’s t

Speech at a public meeting attended by over three lakhs of people at Dhaka on March 21, 1948. Asalam-o-Alaikum! I am grateful to the people of this province and, through you Mr. Chairman of the Reception Committee, to the people of Dhaka, for the great welcome that they have accorded to me. I need hardly say that it gives me the greatest pleasure to visit East Bengal. East Bengal is the most important component of Pakistan, inhabited as it is by the largest single bloc of Muslims in the world. I have been anxious to pay this province an early visit, but unfortunately, other matters of greater importance had so far prevented me from doing so. About some of these important matters, you doubtless know. You know, for instance, of the cataclysm that shook the Punjab immediately after partition, and of the millions of Muslims who in consequence were uprooted from their homes in East Punjab, Delhi and neighboring districts and had to be protected, sheltered and fed pending rehabilitation in W

Speech at the Ceremonial Army Parade at Kurmitolla Airport on 20th March, 1948. Officers and Men, I thank you for the honor you have done me in giving me the salute.I shall always remember this opportunity that has been afforded to me You know that Pakistan had to start from scratch. East Bengal is one of its most powerful components and you have got now an opportunity which you have not had for, may I say, two centuries or more. Bengal generally, in which of course, East Bengal was included where happens to be the largest Muslim population, was considered as negligible in quality and quantity, for military purposes. The martial spirit of Bengal is historically known, and specially the part the Muslims played in the history of the past Bengal. That martial spirit, like many other great qualities was oppressed, suppressed and the martial spirit was dead –with a sort of damper put on –and in Bengal we got to a point when as I said Bengal did not count for military purposes. Now, in