Quaid’s vision of Pakistan

• We are start­ing with this fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ple that we are all cit­i­zens and equal cit­i­zens of one State.(Presidential Address to the Con­stituent Assem­bly of Pak­istan on 11th August, 1947.)

• You are free; you are free to go to your tem­ples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any oth­er places of wor­ship in this State of Pak­istan. You may belong to any reli­gion, caste or creed –that has noth­ing to do with the busi­ness of the State. (Pres­i­den­tial Address to the Con­stituent Assem­bly of Pak­istan on 11th August, 1947.)

• The Con­stituent Assem­bly has got two main func­tions to per­form. The first is the very oner­ous and respon­si­ble task of fram­ing our future Con­sti­tu­tion of Pak­istan and the sec­ond of func­tion­ing as a full and com­plete Sov­er­eign body as the Fed­er­al Leg­is­la­ture of Pak­istan. (Pres­i­den­tial Address to the Con­stituent Assem­bly of Pak­istan on 11th August, 1947.)

• We should begin to work in that spir­it and in course of time all these angu­lar­i­ties of the major­i­ty and minor­i­ty com­mu­ni­ties will van­ish. (Pres­i­den­tial Address to the Con­stituent Assem­bly of Pak­istan on 11th August, 1947.)

• I have noth­ing to do with this pseu­do-reli­gious approach that Gand­hi is advo­cat­ing. (Jin­nah speak­ing to Dur­ga Das in Lon­don.)

• I have always main­tained that no nation can ever be wor­thy of its exis­tence that can­not take its women along with the men. No strug­gle can ever suc­ceed with­out women par­tic­i­pat­ing side by side with men. There are two pow­ers in the world; one is the sword and the oth­er is the pen. There is a great com­pe­ti­tion and rival­ry between the two. There is a third pow­er stronger than both, that of the women. (Speech at Islamia Col­lege for women March 25, 1940.)

• No nation can rise to the height of glo­ry unless your women are side by side with you. We are vic­tims of evil cus­toms. It is a crime against human­i­ty that our women are shut up with­in the four walls of the hous­es as pris­on­ers. There is no sanc­tion any­where for the deplorable con­di­tion in which our women have to live. (Speech at a meet­ing of the Mus­lim Uni­ver­si­ty Union, Ali­garh March 10, 1944.)

• Our object should be peace with­in, and peace with­out. We want to live peace­ful­ly and main­tain cor­dial friend­ly rela­tions with our imme­di­ate neigh­bours and with the world at large. (Lahore, August 15th, 1947.)

• You have to stand guard over the devel­op­ment and main­te­nance of democ­ra­cy, social jus­tice and the equal­i­ty of man­hood in your own native soil. With faith, dis­ci­pline and self­less devo­tion to duty, there is noth­ing worth­while that you can­not achieve. (Address to the offi­cers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Reg­i­ments in Malir, Karachi Feb­ru­ary 21, 1948.)

• We are now all Pak­ista­nis. We must devel­op a sense of patri­o­tism which should gal­va­nize and weld us all into one unit­ed and strong nation.

• They will have their rights and priv­i­leges and no doubt, along with it goes the oblig­a­tion of cit­i­zen­ship. There­fore, the minori­ties have their respon­si­bil­i­ties also and they will play their part in the affairs of this State. As long as the minori­ties are loy­al to the State and owe true alle­giance…. They need have no appre­hen­sion of any kind. (Press Con­fer­ence, New Del­hi, 14 July 1947)

• Minori­ties can rest assured that their rights will be pro­tect­ed. No civ­i­lized Gov­ern­ment can be run suc­cess­ful­ly with­out giv­ing minori­ties a com­plete sense of secu­ri­ty and con­fi­dence. They must be made to feel that they have a hand in Gov­ern­ment and to do this they must have ade­quate rep­re­sen­ta­tion in it. Pak­istan will give this. (Inter­view to APA rep­re­sen­ta­tive, Bom­bay, 8 Novem­ber 1945.)

• Our for­eign pol­i­cy is one of friend­li­ness and good­will towards all the nations of the world. We do not cher­ish aggres­sive designs against any coun­try or nation. We believe in the prin­ci­ple of hon­esty and fair­play in nation­al and inter­na­tion­al deal­ings and are pre­pared to make our utmost con­tri­bu­tion to the pro­mo­tion of peace and pros­per­i­ty among the nations of the world. Pak­istan will nev­er be found lack­ing in extend­ing its mate­r­i­al and moral sup­port to the oppressed and sup­pressed peo­ples of the world and in uphold­ing the prin­ci­ples of the Unit­ed Nation’s Char­ter. (Broad­cast to USA, Feb­ru­ary 1948.)

• Democ­ra­cy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon com­plete equal­i­ty of man­hood [mankind]…[and] believe in fra­ter­ni­ty, equal­i­ty and lib­er­ty. (Lon­don, 14 Decem­ber 1946)

• Islam and its ide­al­ism have taught democ­ra­cy. Islam has taught equal­i­ty, jus­tice and fair­play to every­body. What rea­son is their for any­one to fear democ­ra­cy, equal­i­ty, free­dom on the high­est stan­dard of integri­ty and on the basis of fair­play and jus­tice for everybody…..Let us make it (the future con­sti­tu­tion of Pak­istan), We shall make it and we shall show it to the world. (Address, Bar Asso­ci­a­tion, Karachi, 25 Jan­u­ary 1948)