India agrees to provide Quaid's August 1947 speech recordings

APP Published September 2, 2013

ISLAMABAD: India has agreed to hand over copies of the two important speech-recordings of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah to Pakistan.

The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation had requested for the recordings of the founder of Pakistan Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's famous August 11, 1947 address to Pakistan's Constituent Assembly, which he delivered in Karachi.

In an interview, Director General All India Radio Leeladhar Mandloi said the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has given a green signal for handing over the recordings to Pakistan, Radio Pakistan reported on Sunday.

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Gautham

Sep 02, 2013 10:27am

Thanks for finally agreeing. It was such a great state secret that could not be easily shared with Pakistan.

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shaka

Sep 04, 2013 10:36am

and then Pakistan government edit these speech before on air...because in those speeches Quaid Azam telling about 600,000 Mohajir people who died during migration. and telling about their rights in Pakistan...but nowadays killing of Mohajir everywhere...

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