KARACHI, June 28: To provoke a peaceful gathering and turn it violent is an easy task for any orator but to pacify an angry mob is only an art, specific to Nawab Bahadur Yar Jung, prominent Indian leader and poet Sarojini Naidu once said.

She was quoted by Prof Anwar Ahmed Zai, chairman of the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi, while paying tribute to one of the most admired leaders of Pakistan Movement at a memorial meeting held here on Monday under the aegis of the Bahadur Yar Jung Academy.

Eulogising the valuable services of Nawab Bahadur Yar Jung, Prof Zai said that Nawab saheb was not only a great orator of his own style and caliber but also was a binding force for the Muslims of the subcontinent for the cause of independence.

Nawab saheb was a practical and realist person, he said, adding that all Pakistanis, particularly the youth, should follow in his footsteps.

Because of his oratorical skills he became immensely popular and also very close to the Muslim League leaders, especially to Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Allama Iqbal whose speeches he often translated from English into Urdu. He remained associated with the Majlis-i-Ittehadul Muslimeen, Muslim League and Khaksar Tehrik.

Prof Zai said that when a framework of the constitution for the independent Muslim state was being discussed at a meeting with Quaid-i-Azam, Mr Jung said that the constitution of Pakistan should be based on the teachings of the Holy Quran.

Former federal minister Mir Nawaz Khan Marwat demanded that the government name some university after Bahadur Yar Jung and give a posthumous award to him in recognition of his valuable contribution towards the creation of Pakistan.

It is worth noting that Bahadurabad, a commercial cum residential locality in the city, is named after him.

He said that the need of the hour was to follow Nawab saheb’s mission of Muslims unity by shunning the politics of provincialism, hatred and shortsightedness. He also urged the people to forge unity to meet the challenges of terrorism being faced by the country, which was created after an arduous struggle and great sacrifices.

In his presidential address, BYJ Academy President Prof Mir Hamid Ali said that whatever Prof Zai and Mr Marwat attributed in their speeches to Nawab Saheb was part of our golden past. But one could not expect any good by ignoring the Mr Jung’s concept of Pakistan, he added. He said the western countries and the Zionist forces had started hatching conspiracies against Pakistan shortly after its creation when it was said that the country was the biggest Muslim state of the world.

Earlier, honorary secretary of the BYJ Academy Prof Khwaja Qutubuddin in his welcome address highlighted the working of the academy and its different projects.