Quaid's speech

Apropos the lead article in the Business Recorder '65th independence day' supplement, the writer has started his diatribe with a blatant lie by stating that "It is, however, significant to note that this view was expressed only after the death of all the leaders of Pakistan independence movement in the early nineteen nineties."
He has this highly controversial and inappropriate observation with regard to the speech of 11th August 1947 by the Quaid-i-Azam laying down a secular framework for the future constitution of Pakistan.
Instead of printing this ravings the newspaper should have asked him to read its own late news editor Zamir Niazi's first book 'Press in Chains'. It would have also served him well if he had read the record of the debate in the first constituent assembly on the 'Objectives Resolution'. The said record was published by the Quaid-i-Azam Academy when Professor Sharif al Mujahid, whose article the newspaper conveniently relegated to second place for this piece, was its director.
The Quaid-i-Azam's political career was spread over a very decades long period during which it underwent many twists and turns. He must have made a very large number of speeches in a variety of contexts over this long period. To take those speeches out of context and compare them with the August 11 speech is not only disingenuous but criminal. The 11th August 1947 speech is not that of a politician: it is the inaugural address of the first President of the first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. It clearly and unambiguously lays down a secular framework for the future constitution of Pakistan.