From: cybernetic4456@gmail.com   
      
   Now, if we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we   
   should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and   
   especially of the masses and the poor. If you will work in co-operation,   
   forgetting the past, burying    
   the hatchet, you are bound to succeed. If you change your past and work   
   together in a spirit that everyone of you, no matter to what community he   
   belongs, no matter what relations he had with you in the past, no matter what   
   is his colour, caste or creed,    
   is first, second and last a citizen of this State with equal rights,   
   privileges, and obligations, there will be on end to the progress you will   
   make. I cannot emphasize it too much.   
      
   We should begin to work in that spirit and in course of time all these   
   angularities of the majority and minority communities, the Hindu community and   
   the Muslim community, because even as regards Muslims you have Pathans,   
   Punjabis, Shias, Sunnis and so    
   on, and among the Hindus you have Brahmins, Vashnavas, Khatris, also Bengalis,   
   Madrasis and so on, will vanish. Indeed if you ask me, this has been the   
   biggest hindrance in the way of India to attain the freedom and independence   
   and but for this we would    
   have been free people long long ago. No power can hold another nation, and   
   specially a nation of 400 million souls in subjection; nobody could have   
   conquered you, and even if it had happened, nobody could have continued its   
   hold on you for any length of    
   time, but for this. Therefore, we must learn a lesson from this.    
      
   You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your   
   mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may   
   belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with the   
   business of the State. Now I    
   think we should keep that in front of us as our ideal and you will find that   
   in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to   
   be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of   
   each individual, but    
   in the political sense as citizens of the State.   
      
   I shall always be guided by the principles of justice and fairplay without   
   any, as is put in the political language, prejudice or ill-will, in other   
   words, partiality or favouritism. My guiding principle will be justice and   
   complete impartiality, and I    
   am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to   
   Pakistan becoming one of the greatest nations of the world.   
      
   I have received a message from the United States of America addressed to me.   
   It reads:   
      
   I have the honour to communicate to you, in Your Excellency's capacity as   
   President of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, the following message :   
   On the occasion of the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly for Pakistan,   
   I extend to you and to the members of the Assembly, the best wishes of the   
   Government and the people of the United States for the great work you are   
   about to undertake.   
      
   http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/legislation/constituent_addres   
   _11aug1947.html   
      
   UNFORTUNATELY THIS GREAT WORK WAS NEVER FINISHED AND TODAY IT HOLDS THE SAME   
   IMPORTANCE AND URGENCY  FOR THE PEOPLE OF PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN AND INDIA.   
      
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