Karachi : “The first annual session of the Muslim League was held at Karachi on 29 Dec.1907. The choice of the site was an indication of the new nationalism which was growing among the Muslims, &, as in the case of the Hindus, it was based on religion & historical traditions of past glory & greatness. Karachi, the chief town of Sindh, was chosen because, as a League publication put it, ‘Sindh is that pious place in India, where Muhammad Bin Qasim came first, with the torch of religion & the gift of Hādis. No other place could appeal to our elders.’ More significant still was the remark of the President: ‘If a handful of men under a boy could teach Kalima to the territory of Sindh & promulgate the law of true shāriat of God & His Rasul, can seven crores of Mussalmans not make their social & political life pleasant?’” [R.C. Majumdar, History of the Freedom Movement of India, Vol. II, p.330] Karachi was also the venue of 1913 INC Session presided over by Nawab Syed Md. Bahadur [see Khilafat Agitation], & 1931 Session presided over by Sardar Patel [see Patel Viṭhalbhai].
... after Chundrigar became Prime Minister, Time (p. 26) again declared: 'Chundrigar promptly pledged Pakistan's continued loyalty to the anti-communist Baghdad and SEATO Pacts. But few observers in Karachi believed that his rickety coalition could muster the strength to deal with the nation's slide toward economic chaos. A reliable U.S. ally appeared to be getting weaker and, because of this weakness... "The President's proclamation, running into 2,000 words, traced in detail the political events of the last few years and emphasized the chaos in national politics, the chronic instability in Karachi and the proven inability of successive regimes to solve the basic ills of the country. President Mirza concluded that the present constitution 'so full of dangerous compromises, is unworkable.' ...
... 1908 , pp. 11 - 62). 56 Karachi Lahore A resolution affirming complete independence as the goal of the Indian National Congress was first passed at the Lahore session in December 1929. A resolution passed at the Karachi session in March 1931 noted in passing that complete independence ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1965 September 11, 1965 ( On September 6, after months of clashes in the Kutch desert, Indian troops penetrated into Pakistan. Karachi calls for help from the "Western allies." New Delhi orders a general mobilization. On September 16, China will declare its support of Pakistan. On September 19, the Security Council enjoins India and Pakistan... rest" (!)... as soon as I am lying there, on what is called my "bed," I start working. Well. × Right to the end = Karachi. Sri Aurobindo, it may be recalled, repeatedly said that until the partition of India is abolished, "India may be seriously weakened, even crippled: civil strife may always remain possible, possible ...
... inside Afghanistan to the Ministry of the Interior. Sections of the ISI close to then-Pakistani President Farooq Leghari had Bhutto's surviving brother, Murtaza Bhutto, murdered outside of his house in Karachi in September 1996. The ISI then undertook a propaganda campaign within the Pakistani media blaming Prime Minister Bhutto and her husband for Murtaza's murder. The cloud of suspicion surrounding Bhutto... with, and convicted of hijacking and terrorism. The charges stemmed from an incident in October 1999 when he refused to allow a plane carrying 198 passengers, one of whom was Musharraf, to land in Karachi. See Owen Bennett Jones, Pakistan: Eye of the Storm (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), especially Chapter 2, ''The 1999 Coup,'' pp. 34-55; and Mary Anne Weaver, ''Pakistan: In the Eye of ...
... Kalashnikov rifles and many others engaged in narcotic trafficking, brought a new wave of anarchy that resulted in Page 95 large scale random violence, particularly in Karachi, the largest city. The refugees were not interested in going home, and their presence in major urban areas exacerbated the myriad ethnic fissures that permeate Pakistani society. Even more... place. The charges levelled against Junejo included incompetence in handling Pakistan's chronic problems of corruption and economic development, and the new problem of urban violence in Karachi. Zia promised new elections in November but was destined not to carry out this promise. On August 17, his plane crashed mysteriously, killing all on board. But not before he had put Pakistan ...
... ) Chittagong was hit by a cyclone, there were tidal waves somewhere else ... The cyclone went up the wrong side!—for according to X's predictions, it was Karachi that should have disappeared. He said only in 1962 or 1963 would Karachi totally disappear. And three-fourths of Bombay underwater! And just a while ago some volcanoes erupted, so the sea rose and swept away all kinds of things ...
... , they have heard a voice that cries ___________ * This policy led two years later to the Morley-Min to reforms (see pp. 62 & 64). The first meeting of the Muslim League was held at Karachi on December 29, 1907. Page 31 to them, "Arise from the dead, live and follow me," and they are irresistibly growing into a living and powerful political force. The latest ...
... the possibility of her reunification. The first time was in 1965 when Pakistan's foolish aggressiveness enabled India to counterattack and carry the battle right into the suburbs of Lahore—and up to Karachi had she but had the courage to seize boldly her destiny. The hour was indeed for a decisive choice. The Mother declared categorically: "India is fighting for the triumph of Truth, and She must fight ...
... proud of being thus called on to preside over the first National Assembly ever yet convened in India. Looking round he saw the representatives of all the important centres of the Bombay Presidency, Karachi, Ahmedabad, Surat, Poona, Bombay itself, and other less populous though still important, towns; almost every district in the Madras Presidency was represented, as well as the towns of Madras, Salem ...
... is Aurobindo Babu Calcutta. Mid-February 1910. Halley's Comet had begun to be visible in 'the Indian sky. Reports of sightings had come from different parts of the country, from Karachi and Dumka, from Bombay and Nasik____ It was 8 o'clock. Dusk had given way to night. Night had come swiftly, as it does in those climes. N°4 Shyampukur Lane, Shyambazar. A young man is seen—only ...
... "General Note" ( see page 66 ), was not revised before publication in 1948.—Ed. × 1948 edition Karachi. See Table 1, page 565 .—Ed. × 1948 edition Bengal Provincial. See Table 1, page 565 .—Ed ...
... At the Surat session of the Congress, the Nationalist party with Sri Aurobindo presiding over its conference breaks away from the Moderates First session of the Muslim League at Karachi. 1908, January In Baroda, Sri Aurobindo meets Vishnu Bhaskar Lele, a Maharashtrian yogi, and experiences the Brahman consciousness. Gives many speeches on his way back to Calcutta. ...
... inferior mental & physical kingdom. Today's news are mostly confirmative of the trikaldrishti or aiswarya; the running down of a sailing-vessel, confirming yesterday's perception; the rumour of the Karachi bomb-find proving to be a fact and not a newspaper invention, though probably a police fraud; the fresh demands and threats of Roumania; the falsity of the Vienna rumour; the Moorish resistance in ...
... Trikaldrishti & power continued to work accurately; but without intensity or inspiration, & only in details. The day's programme was not fulfilled in the sthula. 4 February 1913 Telegrams—The Karachi bomb is now denounced as an informer's hoax; naturally, it is not admitted to be an unsuccessful police fraud. Curiously enough, the prakamya which two days before the find suggested the existence ...
... the British steamers charging extravagantly low rates have been unable to command as much custom as the dearer Swadeshi services. A network of Companies holding the water carriage from Rangoon to Karachi and the Persian Gulf would soon have come into existence and the waterways of East Bengal would have been covered with boats plying from town to town in the ownership of Swadeshi concerns. If the Swadeshi ...
... only Bombay will be touched. This is what he said: 'America supports Pakistan, but the gods do not support Pakistan, and Pakistan will be punished by the gods. HALF of western Pakistan, including Karachi, will go into the sea. The sea will enter into Rajasthan and touch India also...' X then said that India would side with America against the Communist bloc (in spite of America's support to Pakistan) ...
... Chapter 3 The Bangladesh War Prelude to the 1971 war Sometime in the early 60's, Ayub Khan's son, Gauhar Ayub, led a procession through the streets of Karachi, a city where Ayub Khan had lost in the elections. The procession turned violent and the resulting killings sowed the seeds of ethnic polarization. It completely alienated Pakistan's largest city from ...
... SRI AUROBINDO: Then we may be safe, at least during the war, unless they send somebody by aeroplane which may be shot down by mistake by the British. PURANI: But the aeroplane has to land at Karachi—unless they make a nonstop flight from Syria, for example. The French are again accusing the British of having dislodged Weygand. NIRODBARAN: The British staff officer's reply that Weygand's ...
... her people. Aban Thakur's work and influence spread all over India directly as well as through his pupils and, if we may say so, his grand-pupils. From Lahore to Madras, from Dacca to Baroda, from Karachi to Calcutta, the new movement spread and developed in a diversity of ways. As Sri Aurobindo stated, "This art is a true creation and we may expect that the artistic mind of the rest of India will ...
... immediately successful. The party took up the word-Swaraj to express its own ideal of independence and it soon spread everywhere; but it was taken up as the ideal of the Congress much later on at the Karachi session of that body when it had been reconstituted and renovated under Nationalist leadership. The journal declared and developed a new political programme for the country as the programme of the ...
... directed none to undertake any political activity of any description. Finally I find myself besieged by devotees who insist on seeing me whether I will or not. They have crossed all India to see me—from Karachi's waters, from the rivers of the Panjab, whence do they not come? They only wish to stand at a distance and get mukti by gazing on my face; or they will sit at my feet, live with me wherever I am or ...
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