Documented reply to Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed from Dr Reza Kazimi -  Book Review Summary and Analysis.
Channel: Thinkers Talk
Date: 2021-02-20

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Dr Prof. Muhammad Reza Kazimi gives documented reply to  
Prof Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed on his book "JINNAH - his success, failure and role in history".

Replies is the based on these statement from his book are given below.

01:30 Is British intelligence burnt and destroyed transfer of paper India ?

03:40 Mr Jinnah is vilan of piece who bears most responsibility for the bloody partition of India.

09:26 The congress leaders found the cabinet mission  plan unacceptable and reject it.

16:30 It is interesting note that a journalistic version blaming the congress for the partition was propounded in the late 90's  and popularized in the 1970s by Pakistan Maoists.

20:20 In 1928 Motilal Nehru report had clearly proposed equal citizen rights for all men and women.

24:28 The one and only example of secular state model can be found in his speech on 11 August 1947.

32:30 Pakistan was the result of British conspiracies.  

*"About the Speaker"*

Dr Muhammad Reza Kazimi graduated with Honours in Islamic History and Culture from the University of Dhaka in 1967. He obtained his MA and PhD degrees from the University of Karachi, Pakistan. A distinguished academic, he became President of the Pakistan College Teachers Association (Karachi Chapter) in 1995. In 2000, he voluntarily retired from the government service and became a visiting professor at the Aga Khan University, M.A. Jinnah University and Karachi University. In late 2000, he was appointed Editorial Consultant at Oxford University Press (OUP), a position he still holds. In the field of Pakistan studies, he has published Liaquat Ali Khan: His Life and Work (OUP, 2003), and A Concise History of Pakistan (OUP, 2009). Dr Kazimi has edited The Jinnah-Liaquat Correspondence (University of Karachi, 2003); M.A. Jinnah: Views and Reviews (OUP, 2005); and has contributed numerous entries to The Encyclopedia of Pakistan (OUP, 2005) and The Oxford Companion to Pakistani History (OUP, 2012). These are in addition to his papers and newspaper articles. He has recently authored The Blood of Husayn, an academic study of the event at Karbala and the cultural impact of the rising of Husayn.