It is from this beginning that we understand his later stance on Palestine and Israel. In October 1939 Jinnah was authorised by the Muslim League Working Committee to pressurise the Viceroy to meet Arab demands on Palestine [7]. At the 1939 Roundtable Conference on Palestine Jinnah sent Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman and Abdur Rehman Siddiqui to aid the Palestinians and the Grand Mufti Amin Al-Husseini [8]. [16] M. R. Afzal, ed., “Selected Speeches and Statements of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah”, p. 439. [20] Riaz Ahmed, ‘Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah: The Formative Years’[21] M. L. Becker, “The All-India Muslim League”

Source: The Express Tribune May 14, 2021 11:48 UTC