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- Muhammad Bin Qasim, the Muslim General, at the age of 17,
leads his men to victory at Debal using Manjaneques.
- The victorious General departs after completing his
mission, marking the beginning of Muslim rule and civilisation in the Indian Subcontinent.
- English traders boarding a boat near Madras. The English
formed the East India Company in 1600 after hearing about the profits made by the
Portuguess
- Vasco De Gama at the port of Calicut, on May 27, 1428 he
discovered the route to the Subcontinent and obtained trading rights for the Portuguese
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- Sir Thomas roe with Jahangir, admiring a Moghul painting,
In 1616, Sir Thomas Roe came as English Envoy to the court of Jahangir and obtained
trading concessions for the East India Company.
- A French house in Pindicherry, 1697. The French East India
Company was formed in 1664.
- Labourdne taking the reins of Madras from an English
officer. During the War of Austrian Succession in 1740, the French fleet raided Madras in
September 1746 and captured it.
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- Mir Jaffar signing the secrety treaty with Clive. The
betrayal by Mir Jaffar at Plassey in 1757, marked the final victory of the British in
Bengal.
- Sirajuddaulah cuts down the British flag after caturing
Calutta. He succeeded his grandfather Ali Vardi Khan, as the Nawab of Bengal in 1756.
- Warren Hastings (left) was impeached by the House of
Commons on the grounds of hiring out British troops to the Nawab of Oudh; treatment of
Chair Singh; and looting of the Begums of Oudh.
- Haider Ali, who cut down the English to size, held on his
own against the British until his death in 1782
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- The hostages saying good-bye to the ladies of Tipu's
Zenana.
- Tipu Sultan fought valiantly to free his homeland. His
gallant death on the battlefield in 1799 marked the fall of the last stronghold of Muslim
might in the subcontinent.
- Ranjit Singh taking the Kohinoor Diamond from Shah Shuja.
In collusion with the East India Company a Sikh Kingdom had been established in the
North-West where Muslims were relentlessly persecuted.
- Shah Abdul Aziz and his companions lanched a Jihad against
the tyrannical Sikhs on December 2, 1826.
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- A volunteer force of Mujahids under Syed Ahmed Barelvi
fought valiantly against the sikhs and occupied Peshawar in 1829. Syed Ahmed died a
martyr's death at Balakot in May, 1831.
- Shah Waliullah (1703-1762), the greatest the ologian
of the Subcontinent, in his missionary effort.
- Lord Bentinck and a Mir of Sindh. During the regime of
Bentinck Sindh was conquered by Sir Charles Napier in 1843 after winning the battles of
Miani, Dabo and Kunri.
- Hosh Mahomed Qambrani, popularly known as Hoshu sindhi,
became a legendry figure, because of his unmatched bravery in fighting the British.
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- Bahadur Shah Zafar, watched the flame of freedom snuffed
by alien hands, Attempts in 1857 by the native soldiery to restore him on the throne
failed and he was exiled to Rangoon where he died some years later.
- General Bakht Khan stood the siege of Dehli with
considerable ability..
- The siege at Delhi's Red Fort on 12th May 1857, the troops
reported to the ageing Bahadur Shah and pledged obedience, but the technological
superiority of the aliens triumphed and uprising was brutally suppressed.
- Patriots in action during the 1857 War of
Independence
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- Arrest of Bahadur Shah at the tomb of Emperor Humayun,
Seeing the central power of the Moghul declining, the British through various combinations
of intrigue, force and adroitness began acquiring control of the provinces
- Fusilers bringing the captured guns into camp.
- Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan, who brought the Muslim community out
of mediaevalism and into the new age, He founded the first Muslim College at Aligarh.
- Sir Sayed wat the first to emphasise that Hindus and
Muslim were two nations distinct and their interests were completely divergent.
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- On Mohsin-ul-Muli's request the Aga Khan led a deputation
to the Viceroy at Simla on October 1, 1906. A constitutional provision was made conceding
separate electorates to the Muslims.
- Mohsin-ul-Mulik set up the Urdu Defence Association to
protect the legitimate claims of Urdu.
- Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk served all public causes which
were in the best interest of the Muslims. He presided over a meeting of leading Muslims at
Dacca on December 30, 1906 that laid the foundation of the All India Muslim League.
- Hakim Ajmal Khan seconded the resulation.
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- The glory of Islam was brought to life with
unrivalled candour by Shibli Nomani
- Altaf Hussain Hali, a poet who gave Urdu literature one of
the most inspiring logn poems, Musaddas-i-Hali. He awakended a decadent people to revieve
their lost glory.
- A poet politician, Maulana Hasrat Mohani was an inveterate
enemy of the British and a lover of freedom for his people.
- Nawab Salimullah Khan, of Dacca, one of the founders of
Muslim League, delivering his presidential address at the 6th session of the All-India
Muslim League..
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- Hindu and Muslim leaders at the historic session of the
Congress and Muslim League at Lucknow, in December, 1916 where the Hindus had agreed for
separate representation of the Muslim in the future legislative councils.
- The Quaid-i-Azam addressing the historic 1916 Lucknow
session of the All-India Muslim League
- Iqbal with Muslim Leagure Leaders, Allahabad, 1930.
- Allama Iqbal addressing the Allahbad annual session of the
Muslim Leagure, 1930. He was the first to give concrete shape to the Muslim aspirations in
the subcontinent for a separate homeland and defined its geopgraphical boundaries learly
and unambigously.
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- Quaid-i-Azam with Central MLAs and office bearers of Simla
League, Maulana Shaukat ali is on his right.
- Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar, a fearless freedom fighter,
whose magnetic touch produced a storm that shook the foundations of british Raj in India.
- Maulana Zafar Ali Khan pictured here with the Quaid, was
great champion of the Muslim cause and wrote fearlessly aginst the policies of the
British.
- Maulana Shaukat Ali and Maulana Muhammad Ali, the
front-line freedom fighters, had to undergo imprisonment for their nationalistic
convictions.
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- Choudhary Rahmat Ali first coined the word Pakistan in his
pamphlet "Now or Never" in 1933
- Allama Iqbal in his famous letters to Mr.Jinnah elaborated
his scheme for a separate Muslim State in its political and cultural context and convinced
him of the soundness of his concept.
- A confidant of the Quaid, Liaquat Ali Khan was elected
General-Secretary of the Muslim League in 1936.
- Addressing a gathering of the Muslims at the Badshai
Mosque at Lahore, the Quaid lends his support to the Muslim demand for the restoration of
the Shaheed Gunj Mosque in Lahore in 1936.
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- Muslim League leaders with Jinnah during the 1937 session
of the all India Muslim League at Lucknow, where they changed its creed to independence,
decided for a party flag and chalked out a programme for re-vitalising the organisation.
- A procession of Muslim League at Ahmedabad, 1937
- Quaid-i-Azam with members of the Muslim League working
committee, 1940
- Quaid-i-Azam and Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan during the
historic Lahore Session of the Muslim League in March, 1940
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- Molvi A.K.Fazul Haq moving the historic Pakistan
Resolution passed by the 100,000 members of All India Muslim League at Lahore on March
23,1940
- March 1940, Lahore. A view of the mammoth crowd demanding
Pakistan and wherein the title of Quaid-i-Azam was conferred on M.A.Jinah
- Choudhry Khaliquzzaman speaking at the historic Lahore
Session of the Muslim League in March 1940 where a separate homeland for the Mslims of
South Asia was demanded.
- Quaid-i-Azam addressing mammoth crowd at the Lahore
Session of the Muslim League.
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- M.A.Jinnah with the members of All-India Muslim League in
Madras, 1941, where the Pakistan Resolution was included in th econstitution of the Muslim
League.
- A procession of All-India Muslim League at Allahbad, 1942,
where lengthy resolutions were passed rejection Cripps proposals.
- Quaid-i-Azam being greeted by Muslim Students Federation
at Jullundar railway station, 1942.
- Muslims pledge support to the Quaid-i-Azam, 1943.
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- M.A.Jinnah in conference with the British Cabinet Mission
1946. Consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and Sir A.V.Alexander.
- M.A.Jinnah with Jawahar Lal Nehru during the tripartite
onference convened by the Cabinet Mission at Simla on May 11,1946.
- A Women demonstrating outside the Lahore High Court, 1946.
They actively participated in the struggle for Pakistan and fought shoulder to shoulder
with their men.
- The women of the Punjab organized themeselve in every nook
and corner against the Khizar Government.
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- Processionists teargassed by police. Bomb after bomb of
tear-gas exploded but the spirit of the patriotic men and women remained undaunted.
- Women demonstrating before the Women's jail Lahore, where
many of their political co-worker were imprisoned.
- The girl, Jamila who hoisted the League flag on the Punjab
Secretariat.
- This young girl recieved many injuries but finally
succeeded in hosting the flag and showing to the world that love for the cause of freedom
is greater than the love for life itself.
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- Muslim League leaders of Punjab Civil Disobedience
Movement were released on February 2, 1947.
- Following the fall of the Khizar Government as result of
province-wide agitation, women political workers wre welcomed with garlands after their
release from jail.
- Quaid-i-Azam Lord Mountbatten and Leaders of Congress and
Akali Dal during their meeting on June 2, 1947
- Quaid-i-Azam making the announcement on radio that
Pakistan would come into being in August (June 3, 1947).
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- The plane which brought Quaid-i-Azam and his sister,
Madar-i-Millat Miss Fatima Jinnah to Karachi on August 7, 1947.
- Quaid-i-Azam setting foot on the soil of Pakistan
- A Lord Mountbatten taking the salute before the transfer
of power ceremonies. The last viceroy of India accompanied by his wife came to Karachi for
the transfer of power to the leader of the new nation.
- The Quaid being administered the oath of office as the
first Governor General of Pakistan (August 14, 1947).
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- Quaid-i-Azam signing the roll of the Constituent Assembly.
- The Muslims of the Subcontinent, having made tremendous
sacrifices and suffering countless hardships attained their cherised homeland by the
transfer of power ceremony in Karachi on 14th August 1947.
- Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan, the frist Prime Minister of
Pakistan, putting his signature after taking the oath of office.
- Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan showing the Pakistan Flag-the
crescent and star spangled green of Muslim independence in the National Assembly.
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- On 15th August 1947, the first cabinet headed by Prime
Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was sworn in and Pakistan was officaially set on its course as
an independent sovereign State.
- The Quaid reads out his message after being sworn in as
the Chief Scout of Pakistan in Karachi, December, 1947.
- Words of wisdom from the Father of the Nation inscribed on
a scroll
- The Quaid's First address to the nation on Radio Pakistan,
August 15, 1947
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- Special train carrying refugees reaching Pakistan from
across the border in August 1947.
- On the eve of Independence, all roads led to Pakistan Tens
of thousands of Muslims were harassed out of their hearths in India into the homeland they
had carved out for themeselves.
- Pakistan Defence Forces who had played a herioc part
during the influx of refugees from India were always very close to Quaid-i-Azam's heart.
- Quaid-i-Azam presenting Regimental Colour to 2/15th Punjab
Machine Gun Regiment at Peshawar April 15, 1948.
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- Quaid-i-Azam in Bagh-i-Jinnah, Lahore, October 1947.
- Quaid-i-Azam addressing a mammoth rally at the University
Statium in Lahore on 30th October 1947.
- The last british troops leaving Pakistan.
- The Quaid-i-Azam declaring open the first Pakistan Olympic
Games at the Polo Ground, Karachi on April 23, 1948.
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- Pakistan Defence Forces who had played a herioc part
during the influx of refugees from India were always very close to Quaid-i-Azam's heart.
- Quaid-i-Azam presenting Regimental Colour to 2/15th Punjab
Machine Gun Regiment at Peshawar April 15, 1948.
- Quaid-i-Azam at Sibi Darbar, announcing important reforms
for Baluchistan on February 14, 1948
- A number of local notables were presented to the Quaid on
his arrival at Sibi in March 1948
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- Quaid-i-Azam shaking hands with Khwaja Nazimuddin, before
emplaning for Karachi after his ten day stay in the then East Pakistan. A big crowd had
collected at Dacca Airport to see off the Quaid-i-Azam.
- Quaid-i-Azam addresses a huge public meeting at Chittagong
in March 1948.
- The Quaid uses a golden key to open the doors of the newly
founded State Bank of Pakistan on July 1, 1948. This was the last public function attended
by the Quaid-i-Azam.
- Quaid-i-Azam delivers the inaugural address at the opening
of the State Bank of Pakistan in Karachi on July 1, 1948.
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- Quaid-i-Azam looking at the first set of Pakistani coins.
- The Quaid takes salute at the parade held on August 14,
1948 to mark the first Independence Day of Pakistan.
- A section of the crowd overwhelm with grief on the
irreparable loss.
- The officers and men of Pakistan Navy pull the cortege at
the funeral. The Quaid's health deteriorated day by day and finally he was flown from
Ziarat to Karachi on September 11, 1948 where he passed away during the night.
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