Missing: Jinnah's speech

IN Media Watch Briefs | 11/06/2012

If you need recorded proof of Muhammad Ali Jinnah's historic 1947 speech--you might need to find alternatives. All India Radio has reportedly stated that it does not have any recordings of the speech in which Jinnah had said people were free to follow any religion without state interference. According to a report released by the BBC, Pakistan's state-run broadcaster had asked AIR for the historic speech, after the BBC was "unable to located it in its extensive archives." But AIR--which operated stations across the subcontinent before Partition--can't seem to find it, either.

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