IN QUIAD’s OWN HAND

By

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)

Fortunately the originals of the manuscript in the great Quaid’s own handwritingare  preserved in the National Archives of Pakistan, Islamabad, wherein he had jotted down some points for one of his meetings on 10^th July 1947 and which amply convey his thoughts on the partition, the Indian attitude and her future designs, the future constitution of Pakistan etc.  The images of the historical manuscript are  attached below. For the ease of reading, the transcripts of two pages are also reproduced below. The parts not readable are marked NR:

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10^th July 47                    2/         

(1)    Capt. Nott

(2)    Commodore Jeffords                                                                            Memo –NR -- to Set – NR

NR ___ NR  ___ NR  __  NR

                                What will happened to the questions dealt with

                                that maybe in dispute after 15^th August:

                                Arbitral Tribunal agreed upon will decide

`                               any disputed question if the partition council

                                do not agree, after that what would take

the place of Partition Council and who will 

                                decide any  disputed point in the matter?

                NR          Miler   or  Corfield

1.       Economic Reconstruction

2.       Industrial Expansion

3.       Financial & Budgetary Planning

Organisation of foreign & Counselor Services 

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1.       The Congress have accepted the present

settlements with Mental reservations

2.       They now proclaim their determination torestore

the unity of India as soon as possible.

3.       With thatdetermination  they will naturally

be regarded as avowed enemies of Pakistan

State working for itsoverthrow

        Future Constitution of Pakistan

                                                Dangers of Parliamentarian form of Govt.

----------------------(1) Parliamentary form of Govt.

It has worked                  (2)   Presidential form of Govt.    

               Satisfactorily so        (more suited to Pakistan)

                far In England

                no where else.

                                                                The state exists (as has been said by

                                                                Aristotle) not for life only but for good life

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There should be no doubt in the mind of anyone that Quaid wanted the presidential form of Govt. for Pakistan.  A president elected by universal suffrage and having the pick of the professionals as his cabinet minister would have transformed Pakistan in to a great country as envisioned by the Quaid.

The parliament should have nothing to do with the governance and must be confined to their primary role of legislating and framing the laws.

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)