DELHI: The open session of All-India Muslim League had its third and last sitting tonight [April 26], amidst scenes of unabated enthusiasm. Mr. Jinnah was in the Chair.

The proceedings began with recitation from the Holy Quran. Mr. Yusuf Abdullah Haroon, Salar-e-Azam, All-India Muslim National Guards, announced a number of donations received from all classes of people, ranging between factory labourers to Prime Ministers. Donations of Rs. 1,000 each were received from five persons and of anna each from two little boys.

A number of Students’ Federations presented various sums of money to Muslim League Fund.

A resolution, which was moved by Moulana Abdul Hamid Badaoni related to the injustice in giving retrospective effect to Martial Law in Sind. The resolution was seconded by Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan and passed unanimously, and reads as follows:-

The session of the All-India Muslim League deplores the unjustifiable action of the Government inasmuch as retrospective effect was given to the Martial Law and the trial by Martial Law Court of Pir Pagaro and that he was tried by the Martial Law Court instead of normal judicial tribunal of the land for offences alleged to have been committed before the introduction of Martial Law in the areas of Sind concerned and that the sentence of death passed against him by such a court was executed. — Dawn Delhi

Published in Dawn, April 27th, 2018