QUETTA: Mr. M.A. Jinnah addressed yesterday [Sept 23] a meeting of about hundred men including the office-bearers of the Baluchistan Provincial Muslim League, the Quetta City League and other social, commercial and Allied Muslim bodies. Mr. Jinnah described what the Muslim League had been doing for the Muslims and for the uplift of the people of Baluchistan and for bringing the province on the same footing as the other British provinces in the matter of self-Government.

He said: “We have succeeded in having an elected Municipal Committee for the Quetta city. Today, there is a representative of Baluchistan in the Central Legislature although he is not the elected representative of the people nor selected with their approval, but it shows that the principle has been accepted by the Government. The Government has been made to realise that Baluchistan must have her voice in the Centre, and let us hope that soon your own elected representative will sit in the Central Assembly.”

Mr. Jinnah exhorted his audience not to slacken their activity, and assured them of his own and the All-India Muslim League’s pressure on the Government of India for Baluchistan and appealed to them to stand united…

Published in Dawn, September 25th, 2020

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