(EDITORIAL) Qaid-e-Azam’s speech at Bombay on Sunday last is a sharp reminder to Indian Musalmans of the precariousness of their existence in an India, which the Hindu Congress and the alien British seem to have decided to manage between themselves on a cartel basis. Between the devil of Congress ambitions and the deep sea of Britain’s refusal to part with power, the Musalmans of India, numbering one hundred millions, find themselves in an unenviable position. What a tower of strength this unholy alliance between the devil and the deep sea has proved itself to be! But thanks to the courageous leadership of Mr. Jinnah whose political instinct is almost uncanny, the Musalmans of India were saved from a sure political burial at the hands of this unholy alliance which appeared at Simla in the role of grave diggers … Congress leaders have been vilifying Mr. Jinnah in a most unbecoming manner… Britain’s policy is centred on the theory that India is geographically one … If to oppose the dangerous British policy amounts to “playing the fame of British Imperialism”, as Congressmen would have the world believe, they are guilty of gross perversion of the truth. …

Published in Dawn, August 14th, 2020