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Showing posts with label oath. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oath. Show all posts
Friday, May 31, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Jinnah's Nationality and Oath
Truth be told, the MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s much anticipated drone attack landed on the xenophobia and narrow-mindedness of Pakistanis. Every anti-MQM politician rushed in to defend the honour of the Quaid-e-Azam after feeling slighted that Altaf Hussain had claimed that Jinnah was a subject of the British crown and as Governor-General had taken the oath of allegiance to the crown.
The discussion that ensued was as amusing as it was downright ignorant. Tarek Fatah, a self- styled Jinnah-basher, came up with the claim that unlike Jinnah, India’s Prime Minister Nehru had not taken allegiance to the crown, which was as baseless an assertion as by those on our right wing crying foul over Altaf Hussain’s comments. Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister of the Dominion of India, which was a constitutional monarchy between 1948-1950 and not only did he take an oath of allegiance to the crown, it was administered by the King’s own cousin. The oath of allegiance for Governor-Generals, ministers and governors is found in the Independence of India Act, 1947. The question can be settled by looking at item 179 on page 276 of the Jinnah Papers, Volume IV, which contains the different kinds of oaths for the governor general, governors, ministers, etc. Ironically, in all of India, it was only Jinnah that insisted that King George stopped signing his name George R I or Rex Imperica.
The discussion that ensued was as amusing as it was downright ignorant. Tarek Fatah, a self- styled Jinnah-basher, came up with the claim that unlike Jinnah, India’s Prime Minister Nehru had not taken allegiance to the crown, which was as baseless an assertion as by those on our right wing crying foul over Altaf Hussain’s comments. Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister of the Dominion of India, which was a constitutional monarchy between 1948-1950 and not only did he take an oath of allegiance to the crown, it was administered by the King’s own cousin. The oath of allegiance for Governor-Generals, ministers and governors is found in the Independence of India Act, 1947. The question can be settled by looking at item 179 on page 276 of the Jinnah Papers, Volume IV, which contains the different kinds of oaths for the governor general, governors, ministers, etc. Ironically, in all of India, it was only Jinnah that insisted that King George stopped signing his name George R I or Rex Imperica.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Defending the Constitution
Book recommendations:
1. Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within (Oxford Pakistan Paperbacks)
2. Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
By Yasser Latif Hamdani
Pakistan’s armed forces are a wing of the Federal Government of Pakistan, which controls defence (through Chapter 2 of Part XII of the Constitution of 1973 and the federal legislative list) as a purely federal subject. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, and the army, air and navy chiefs are appointed public servants carrying out responsibilities that fall in the purview of defence.
1. Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within (Oxford Pakistan Paperbacks)
2. Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
By Yasser Latif Hamdani
Pakistan’s armed forces are a wing of the Federal Government of Pakistan, which controls defence (through Chapter 2 of Part XII of the Constitution of 1973 and the federal legislative list) as a purely federal subject. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, and the army, air and navy chiefs are appointed public servants carrying out responsibilities that fall in the purview of defence.
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