4. Forcefully raise voice in international forums for your just cause. Even if you do not succeed you’ll make it difficult for others to achieve their full goals.Kashmir Issue
Chaudhary Muhammad Ali (Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1955) in his book “The Emergence of Pakistan:
[Quote]Zafarullah Khan’s masterly exposition of the case convinced the Security Council that the problem was not simply one of expelling so called raiders from Kashmir, as the Indian representative would have them believe, but of placing Indo-Pakistan relations on a just and peaceful basis and solving the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the will of the people of the State.[/Quote]
Dr justice Adrarsh Sein Anand Judge Supreme Court of India in Accession of Kashmir— Historical & Legal Perspective:
[Quote]The Security Council, in accepting India’s complaint did indirectly recognise the accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to India and indeed the legality of the accession was not the point which India had brought before the Security Council. It is important to note that the question of aggression alone fell within the competence of the Security Council. The Indian spokesman’s statement was followed by a brilliant address by Sir Mohammed Zafarullah Khan of Pakistan who with his brilliant eloquence ‘broadened’ the issue and sought to bring various disputes between India and Pakistan together. Frankly speaking it was at this stage that the ‘aggressor’ and ‘victim of agression’ were put on a par in the Security Council.[/Quote]
http://www.ebc-india.com/lawyer/articles/96v4a2.htm
Ramachandra Guha
[Quote]In the early discussions [in UN ed.], Zafrullah ran rings around Iyengar [Indian Representative Ed.], establishing an advantage that Pakistan have never since relinquished.[/Quote]
http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2008/05/25/stories/2008052550090300.htm
Victoria Schofield in Kashmir in Conflict
[Quote]In january 1948 the Kashmir issue was debated in the Security Council of the United Nations, at Lake Success, New York, with representations from the Indian and Pakistani delegates. Much to the annoyance of the Indians, Sir Zafrullah Khan made a bold speech lasting five hours in favour of Pakistan’s position and against the continuing rule of the Dogras over the Kashmiris: ‘What is not fully known is the depths of misery to which they have been reduced by a century of unmitigated tyranny and oppression under Dogra rule until it is difficult to say which is the greater tragedy to a Kashmiri: his life or his death.” The Indian government also believed that the Security Council, under the guidance of the British delegate, Philip Noel-Baker, was ignoring India’s complaint and giving equal consideration to Pakistan’s position.[/Quote]
V Shankar, private secretary to Sardar Patel:
[Quote]The discussions in the Security Council on our complaint of aggression by Pakistan in jammu and Kashmir have taken a very unfavourable turn. Zafrullah Khan had succeeded, with the support of the British and American members, in diverting the attention from that complaint to the problem of the dispute between India and Pakistan over the question of jammu and Kashmir. Pakistani aggression in the State was pushed into the background due to his aggressive tactics in the Council as against the somewhat meek and defensive posture we adopted to counter him.[/Quote]
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Palestiem Issue
The Statesman, Delhi, dated October 8, 1947, editorially observes:
[quote]For the first time the voice of Pakistan was heard in the counsels of the United Nations on a burning topic of world-wide significance when leader of this country’s delegation, Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, addressed the United Nations Palestine Committee at Lake Success on Tuesday. It was a telling speech which tore into shreds the specious pleas put forward by the advocates of the partition of Palestine [ie creation of Israel ed.]. Chaudhry Zafarullah did not merely indulge in rhetoric when he described the partition plan as `physically and geographically a monstrosity’, he proceeded to prove this by unassailable arguments. Answering the contention that the migration of more Jews into Palestine should be permitted because the Jewish displaced persons desired to go to that country, Pakistan’s spokesman asked whether the Americans would consent to relax or abrogate their own immigration laws if displaced persons of various other nationalities desired to enter the United States and settle there? Would America, he further asked, agree to take in the five million displaced persons of the Punjab if they desired to leave the scene of their suffering and cross over to the United States. We have little doubt that the Arabs will rejoice to find the voice of Pakistan so powerfully raised in the United Nations in defence of their cause. The addition of the independent sovereign state of Pakistan to the community of free Muslim peoples of the World is already beginning to have its effect on international affairs.[/quote]
His Majesty King Faisal-al-Saud in a letter, dated May 5, 1948, to Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, thanked him
[quote]for your close co-operation and the noble stand which your Excellency has taken, not only during the meeting but since the question of Palestine has been put before the United Nations. Allow me to state that your high principles have created a desire on the part of all righteous persons to identify themselves with the efforts of your Excellency, not only on behalf of the Arabs, but Moslems all over the world as well[/quote]
the letter adds.
Syed Amin Husseini, Grand Mufti of Palestine, in a telegram dated, Cairo, March 1, 1950, says
[quote]Wish reassure your Excellency our deep appreciation your invaluable efforts for just causes of Islam. May God guard you crowning your efforts with success.[/quote]
Al-Syed Ahmad Asim, Sajada Nashin Dargah Hazrat Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilani, Baghdad, a cousin of Al-Syed Abdul Qadir Al-Gilani, former Ambassador of Iraq to Pakistan, in his letter in Urdu dated July 5, 1948, addressed to Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, writes
[quote]I avail of this opportunity to thank you from the core of my heart, on my behalf as well as on behalf of the family of Hazrat Gous-ul-Azam, for the great Jihad you waged in a purely Islamic spirit in support of the Holy Land of Palestine before the United Nations. I earnestly pray that Almighty Allah may grant you full recompense for your services and enable you to further serve the cause of Islam.[/quote]
Mr. Abdul Rahman Azzam, the Secretary General of the Arab League, in his letter, dated November 15, 1951, observes
[quote]Reading in my bed your speech in the Assembly, I prayed to God to save you and preserve your health for long years in the service of Islam. My congratulations on your clear, human and Islamic statement from the world rostrum.[/quote]
Former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto sent a message of appreciation to Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan on his retirement from the President ship of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. His message read
[quote]I wish to convey to you our deep appreciation for the services you have so selflessly rendered over several decades to the people of Pakistan as well as to the international community. As a leading member of the political movement, which led to the achievement of a homeland of the Muslims in the sub-continent and earlier as President of the All India Muslim League in 1931, you played a very significant role in the creation of Pakistan. As Foreign Minister of Pakistan for the first seven years after the birth of the country, you helped in establishing Pakistan as a state which commanded respect abroad and whose voice carried weight in international forms. Your services to Pakistan, however, did not end there. As President of the UN General Assembly and as a judge of the International Court of Justice you not only served the international community as a whole, but in doing so enhanced the prestige of Pakistan. I can say with full confidence that all of us shared the pride that one naturally felt at the respect you commanded in the international community and the United Nations in your various capacities.[/quote]