BOOKS IN BRIEF

Published February 16, 2020

Ghair Jaanibdaar Jinnah Aur Pakistan: Do Haqqaiq Jin Se Qaum Nawaaqif Hai

Saleena Karim

An Urdu translation by Mahmood Alam Siddiqui of Saleena Karim’s 2010 book, Secular Jinnah and Pakistan: What the Nation Doesn’t Know, which raised controversies for having revealed that a popular quote long ascribed to Quaid-i-Azam was, in fact, fake.

Published in Dawn, Books & Authors, February 16th, 2020

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