Muhammad Ali Jinnah - The Great Leader

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Gift of lantern from China.

Two weeks after the inauguration, on January 29, 1970, the Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan, Mr. Chang Tang, presented a beautiful lantern by the Muslim Association of the People's Republic of China to the President of Quaid-e-Azam Mazar Memorial Committee, Major General Pirzada, in a simple ceremony. What.

This beautiful lantern was installed right on top of the replica of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Mazar. General Pirzada thanked the government and the people of the People's Republic of China for presenting this gift and said that this gift is a four moon to this monument of the father of the nation. Will put it on.

The lantern installed on the shrine of Jinnah starts from a height of 19 feet from the ground and has a total length of 81 feet. The lantern has four parts made in the style of the Buddha stoppa.
The round of the lantern gradually decreases from bottom to top and contains a total of 40 golden lamps. This lantern lit the shrine for 46 years.

Around the year 2016, the Chinese government proposed to Pakistan that they wanted to replace this lantern and install a new lantern in its place.

The government accepted the offer and performed the ritual of installation of this new spectacular lantern at the shrine of founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah on 17 December 2016.

The ceremony was attended by President Mamnoon Hussain, Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Historical and Literary Heritage Division Irfan Siddiqui, Ambassador of China to Pakistan, Mayor of Karachi Wasim Akhtar and Chief Engineer Muhammad Arif of Quaid-e-Azam Mazar Management Board .

The length of this new lantern is 26 meters and weighs 1.2 tonnes. The preparation of this lantern cost Rs 22 crore and more than eight kilograms of gold is used.
It has four circles. The first circle has 16, the second has 10, the third has eight and the fourth has six circles.

This lantern was manufactured in China in a period of four months and 13 Chinese experts assembled it in Karachi in a period of about one and a half months and then installed it in Mazar Quaid.

 

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Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah With Mohammad Abdul Latif, Pir Sahib Zakori Sharif At Dera Ismail khan In April 1948.

Pir Abdul Latif Zakori (1914 - 1978) - Pir Sahib Zakori Sharif played a leading role in the 1945 NWFP Assembly elections and was instrumental in securing 17 seats for the Provincial Muslim League; himself returning from Lakki Marwat, Bannu District constituency.

During the crucial phase of Pakistan Movement he faced bravely a lot of hardships and imprisonment on many occasions. During the \'Civil Disobedience Movement\' he hoisted the Pakistan Muslim League flag after removing the Union Jack from the Deputy Commissioner's House in Bannu and was arrested soon after leading a procession against the British Rule.

The arrest of Pir Sahib turned into a great public uproar and a large number of his followers turned up for voluntary arrest which almost filled the entire jails of NWFP; resultantly temporary prison houses had to be arranged at Serai Naurang, Bannu, and other places to lodge the protestors.

On his release on June 3,1947 he preceded to New Delhi on the special invitation of Quaid-e-Azam to participate in the All India Muslim League Council meeting at Imperial Hotel. He delivered there an impressive and forceful speech. Quaid-e-Azam had a great faith in Pir Sahibs political acumen and sagacity and reposed a great confidence in him to turn the forthcoming \'Referendum\' in NWFP a success.

Pir Sahib Zakori Sharif did, indeed, come to the high expectations of the Quaid and worked so tirelessly for the NWFP
Referendum that the Quaid-e-Azam addressed him as \"Fateh Referendum\".

He was one of those luminaries of the Pakistan Movement who laid the foundation of Muslim League in NWFP and nullified the hold of all India Congress and other Anti-Pakistan forces in the Province. He remained a member of the NWFP Assembly from 1945 to 1950.

He died on February 2,1978 depriving the Country of a great freedom fighter and leaving millions of his followers to mourn his death.
To commemorate the Pioneers of Freedom (Series) Pakistan Postal Services Corporation is issuing a set of three commemorative postage stamps of Re. 1/- denomination on August 14,1993.

 

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I have no worries now. Men may come and men may go. But Pakistan is truly and firmly established and will go on with Allah’s grace forever.
Quaid-e-Azam M.A. Jinnah.....

Sir, you were very much true and foresight ,while planning about Hindu extremism.
Today, all Muslims are suffering ,who decide not to leave India the time of partition. Thanks for all Sir, to provide us shelter from today's Hindu extremism, otherwise, we would face conditions like Kashmiris by the hands of Moodi's regime.
Love you Sir.

 

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With All India Muslim ( League Ladies Wing ).....

 

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Quaid-e-Azam with Liaquat Ali Khan, Allama Mashraqi. Barrister Mian Ahmed Shah and Sir Ziauddin Ahmed.

This historic picture was taken when Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Founder of Pakistan) visited Allama Mashriqi (founder of Khaksar Tehrik) at a Khaksar Camp in Karol Bagh (Delhi) on October 16, 1939.

 

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The historic group photograph of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah at his last visit to Islamia College, Peshawar, Pakistan.

Date: 12 April 1948.

 

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Karachi, 1955