Controversial Punjab chief minister, Mumtaz Daultana, is often accused of 'facilitating' the agitation.
He was reading out an Objectives Resolution drafted some months after Jinnah’s demise in 1948.
The PM announced that Pakistan’s future transformation as a republic and Constitution was to be ‘Islamic.’ The government’s non-Muslim members accused the PM of deviating from Jinnah’s original resolve.
Passengers being served champagne on a PIA flight in 1966.
PIA, launched in 1955, began its meteoric rise as one of the world’s leading airlines in the mid-1960s. A group of Pakistan Air Force pilots during the 1965 Pakistan-India War.
The resolve dismissed: President Iskandar Mirza (Republican Party) with the chiefs of Pakistan’s armed forces soon after declaring Pakistan’s first martial law in 1958.
The country’s economy had nosedived, there was a spike in incidents of crime and corruption, and constant squabbling between politicians and bureaucrats.
The first resolve: Head of the All India Muslim League (AIML), Muhammad Ali Jinnah, speaking to party members in Lahore on March 23, 1940.
Jinnah was presiding a party session in which the AIML passed a resolution that demanded the creation of separate federations based on Muslim-majority regions in British India.
Pakistan had emerged as an independent domain of the British Crown, which is why the notes had King George VI’s image on them.
Another resolve: Pakistan’s first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, speaking at the Constituent Assembly in 1949.
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