Jinnah’s speeches to be uploaded on UN website

ISLAMABAD: Speeches made by Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah will now have an international audience after an agreement was signed between the information ministry and a UN body to upload them to the latter’s website.

The agreement had been signed between the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, National Historical Heritage and the United Nations Educational and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

Under the agreement, a comprehensive strategy has been devised to upload all the speeches Jinnah made from 1914 to 1947 on to the ‘Memory of the World’ archive of UNESCO.



The information ministry had requested UNESCO to include speeches of Jinnah on the website and the Memory of the World — which is part of UNESCO’s Heritage Programme.

UNESCO accepted and told the ministry to provide the speeches in a digital format.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 25^th, 2018.