Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Salvador de Madariaga, and why we should know about him

On 10 March 1941, less than a year after putting forward the demand for Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah addressed the students at the Muslim University Aligarh. The address was nothing less than a lecture on political science and remains, possibly, one of the most underrated speeches in the political literature of the world. Jinnah […]

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Online lessons on “How Jinnah Liberated India”

These lessons were originally conducted from 12 February to 19 March 2023, and they are now available on YouTube. The purpose is to prepare a team of experts on the book How Jinnah Liberated India (2022), written by Khurram Ali Shafique. The book has been published internationally by Libredux UK and by Topline in Pakistan,

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Credits How Jinnah Liberated India

International edition Copyright © 2022 Khurram Ali Shafique The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without

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“Glorious Revolution” and constitutional monarchy in Pakistan

The uncanny similarities between the rule of James II of England and the reign of Imran Khan in Pakistan have already been mentioned in the previous post. What happened next in Britain is now remembered as the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In 1688, the parliament and the army jointly invited the estranged daughter of the

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