Quotes from the Quaid: Foreword by Stanley Wolpert
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The decision by the Jinnah Society to publish Quotes from the Quaid as an e-book responds to the need for increasing awareness of Jinnah's leadership and the Pakistan Movement; the ever-increasing demand for this book from Pakistanis and the need to make Quotes from the Quaid available to all in and outside Pakistan easily as an e-book free of cost particularly in these troubled times caused by the Coronavirus all over the world.
The book has previously sold more than 20,000 copies and was distributed to schools, colleges and universities for free. It was published first in 2007 by Oxford University Press and then again in 2020 by Lightstone Publishers.
Mr. Liaquat Merchant, President of The Jinnah Society. said that the sole purpose of The Jinnah Society in bringing out Quotes from the Quaid in hard copy and now as an e-book constitutes one more effort to propagate and promote the principles, ideals, and vision of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, as a nation-building exercise and thus promote the development of democratic leaders in the role model of Mr Jinnah with particular emphasis on private honour and public integrity.
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LIAQUAT MERCHANT qualified as a lawyer in Bombay, began his practice before the High Court of Bombay in 1964, and has practiced in Bombay, Dubai, London, and Pakistan. The grandson of Jinnah’s sister Mariambai who lived in Bombay, he was appointed Administrator of the Estate of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah by the High Court of Sindh at Karachi in 1980. He was appointed Trustee of the Quaid-e-Azam Aligarh Education Trust by the same High Court in 1984.
He is the Founder and Managing Trustee of the Jinnah Foundation, a registered charitable trust providing education and health to the poor. He is also the Founder President of the Jinnah Society which he established to promote nation-building through propagating the principles, ideals, and vision of Quaid-e-Azam. He is former Deputy Attorney General of Pakistan and has established many trusts and other non-government organisations in Pakistan on which he serves as a member. Liaquat Merchant has been responsible for many publications on Jinnah including Jinnah a Judicial Verdict, The Jinnah Anthology (four editions), M. A. Jinnah CD ROM Project and Quotes from the Quaid. The President of Pakistan conferred Sitara-i-Imtiaz on him in 2008 in recognition of his services.
SHARIF AL MUJAHID. Professor Mujahid's publications include six major works, ten edited works, co-authored works, and twenty-two works (original/translated) in Urdu, Arabic, French, Portuguese and other languages. One of his works, Quaid-i-Azam Jinnah: Studies in Interpretation (1981; two editions. In Pakistan and two 'pirated' reprints in India), was the only work among all those on Pakistan's founder published since 1940 to qualify for the President's Award on Best Books on Quaid-i-Azam. He co-edited Unesco's History of Humanity, vol. VI, and edited In Quest of Jinnah (2007), the only oral history on Pakistan's founding father. His other works include Ideology of Pakistan (2001); Ideological Foundations of Pakistan (1999); Muslim League Documents, Vol. I: 1900-1908 (1990); Quaid-i-Azam and His Times: A Compendium, Vol. I: 1876-1937 (1990); and Indian Secularism: A Case Study of Muslim Minority (1970).