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modern world so universally does. You could not get over the old world way of thinking. What I hear in this Resolution is not the voice of the great creator of Pakistan-the Quaidi-Aazm (may his soul rest in peace), nor even that offer Prime Minister of Pakistan, the Honorable Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan, but of the Ulemas of the land.

 When I came back to my part of the country after several months absence in Europe, the thing that I saw there depressed me. A great change for, the worse has come over the land. I noticed that change this side also. I told His Excellency Khwaja Nazimuddin of it. I told the Honorable Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan about it and now that spirit of reaction has overwhelmed this House also. This Resolution in its present form epitomizes that spirit of reaction. That spirit will not remain confined to the precincts of this House. It will send its waves to the countryside as well. I am quite upset. I have been passing sleepless nights pondering what shall I now tell my people whom I have so long been advising to stick to the land of their birth? They are passing a state of uncertainty, which is better seen and felt than imagined from this House. The officers have opted out, the influential people have left, the economic conditions are appalling, starvation is wides-spread. women are going naked, and people are sinking without trade, without Occupation. The administration is ruthlessly reactionary; a steam-roller has been set in motion against the culture, language and script of the people. And on the top of this all, by this Resolution you condemn them to a perpetual state of inferiority. A thick curtain is drawn against all rays of hope, all prospect of an honorable life.

 After this what advice shall I tender? What heart can I have to persuade the people to maintain a stout heart? But I feel it is useless bewailing before you, it is useless reasoning with you. You show yourselves incapable of humility that either victory or religion ought to generate. You then go your way, I have best wishes for you. I am an old man not very far from my eaternal rest. Personally I am capable of forgetting all injuries. I bear you no ill will. I wish you saw reason. Even as it is, may no evil come your way. May you prosper, may the newly-born State of Pakistan be great and get its proper place in the comity of nations. (Applause.)

 The Honorable Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan (East Bengal: Muslim): I have listened to the speech of my Honorable friend, the Leader of the Congress Party, with great care. I assure him that whatever I say will be with full sense of responsibility and in all sincerity.......

 Sir, my Honorable friend, the Leader of the Congress Party, had a visit from some Ulemas. He did not tell us whether it was that they had come in search of knowledge to him or whether he had gone in search of knowledge to them. But I presume that this visit was paid by certain Ulemas according to him from Lahore on their own initiative and they left certain literature with him, which seems to have upset my Honorable friend. who is very seldom upset. I can quite understand why this visit and why this handing over of this literature was done. There are some people here who are out to disrupt and destroy Pakistan and these so-called Ulemas who have come to you, they have come with that particular mission of creating doubts in your mind regarding the bonafide as of the Mussalmans of Pakistan. Do not for God's sake lend your ear to such mischievous propaganda. I want to say and give a warning to this element, which is out to disrupt