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Mohamed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan, did not testify. Seeing few, taking advice from none, he sulked in Karachi, the raddled capital of his already half-ruined country. Of him, the Prosecutor said...
...capital, Karachi, Jinnah preached that "restraint is necessary." However, the fires of communal hatred, which he had fanned for 20 years, were burning too brightly in the Punjab to be easily stifled. They might spread...
Little Enthusiasm. One wartime U.S. visitor was impressed by the prevalence of sexy books in Karachi. "In one dismal hotel," he recalled, "the hall porter was reading Jurgen. The night clerk was reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and the manager was reading Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks. The food was bad, too, but I never found out what the chef had on his mind." A Karachi professor asked another U.S. visitor to send him Forever Amber. "I'm interested," he said, "because I have a beautiful young daughter...
...spite of its sprawling unloveliness, Karachi is a bustling port (third biggest in India) and a center of the leather trade. The population swelled to almost 600,000 in recent years...
...Jinnahabad. Karachans, however, did not welcome Pakistan with the wild enthusiasm that swept the new dominion of India (see above). After all, Pakistan was the creation of one clever man, Jinnah; the difference between a slick political trick and a mass movement was apparent in the contrast between Karachi and New Delhi...