The second recording is Jinnah's August 14 address where he talks about the "welfare and well-being of all the communities" in Pakistan.
The speeches by Jinnah include one recorded by All India Radio in New Delhi on June 3‚ 1947 - two months before partition - in which he reacts to the decision of holding a referendum in the then North West Frontier Province (now 'Khyber Pukhtunkhwa') for determining if the region would join Pakistan or India.
The second recording is his August 14 address where he talks about the "welfare and well-being of all the communities" in Pakistan.
"We have received both the speeches. We are very happy and thankful to All India Radio (AIR)," said Javed Khan Jadoon, Head of Current Affairs, Pakistan Radio.
He said the speeches were received over the internet and officials here downloaded and transferred them to a Compact Disc.
"This will become part of our archives. I spoke to AIR Director yesterday and he has promised all help in case we need any recordings prior to 1947 also," he said.
Asked when the speeches would be played to the people of Pakistan, he said an editorial decision is yet to be made.
On March 29, 2012, the then Pakistan Broadcasting Cooperation chief Murtaza Solangi wrote to AIR Director General Leeladhar Mandloi, requesting him to provide a copy of Jinnah's first presidential address to the constituent assembly in Karachi on August 11, 1947.
Solangi noted that he was told during his visit to the AIR in November 2011 that the speech was in the archives.
In that speech, Jinnah spoke of his vision of Pakistan as a state with equal citizens, irrespective of community, colour, caste and creed, and said people were free to go to their places of worship.
But AIR later said it did not have a copy of that specific speech.
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Thank You India :)
Regarding secular speech of Quaid-e-Azam, Jinnah said "People will believe anything they read on the Internet."
@Watter Bottle:
"creed (plural creeds)
That which is believed; accepted doctrine, especially religious; a particular set of beliefs; any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to."
Please respond.
and what will pakistan do with that?
@Water Bottle, My "Einstein" friend
implies religion. If you can't understand that, you should be reading Bollywood blogs/gossip instead, not real news.
@Water Bottle: perhaps there is no water in the bottle.read carefully...jinnah said every was free to go to his place of worship.it is sad that you ignore the fact.further please note jinnah was never a religious man...infact he never practised religion.
Now will Pakistan hand over Hafeez Saeed and Dawood Ibrahim ?
Thank you India and especially AIR for sending copies of these important speeches.
India "Hands over" tapes to Pakistan???
Was India illegally holding it for ransom? Bad choice of Words ET.
@Water Bottle
Well observed.
"The speeches were received over the internet and officials here downloaded and transferred them to a Compact Disc."
I bet you that India retained the original version. Copied CDs have no monumental value. I foresee that some Pakistanis will accuse India to send "doctored" speeches of Quaid to Pakistan. Mark my words.
@Hafiz: What about Kashmir?
Sorry Pakistan for the delay . Maybe u did not try hard enough and we have a disease called RED TAPE
Thank you India!
The second recording is his August 14 address where he talks about the “welfare and well-being of all the communities”.
ET should not mislead people.
In this speech, Jinnah only speaks about the welfare of all castes, creed, ethnicity etc.
The most prominent word 'religion' is missing from the speech's transcript which were published right here in ET. Those who claim Jinnah was secular will be busted by this speech. Jinnah was secular only within the boundaries of Islam. Perhaps because, he was a minority muslim himself.
He carefully chooses to ignore the word religion.
Thank You India. This is certainly a nice gesture.
Thank you India.
Thank you India for the kind gesture.
It proves India always in favour of pakistan but pakistan is anti-india forever.
Radio Pakistan should make arrangements for people of Pakistan that they should be able to listen to the two speeches of Founder of the Nation, Quaid-e-Azam, Mohammad Ali Jinnah received from AIR.