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“Nature has given you everything: you have got unlimited resources. The foundations of your State have been laid, and it is now for you to build, and build as quickly and as well as you can. So go ahead and I wish you God speed.” (A message by Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah to the nation on the occasion of the first anniversary of Pakistan on 14th August, 1948.)

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