Broken record: Quaid’s visit, an RSS cell, and Dawn under attack

As refugees continued to pour into Pakistan, often surviving unspeakable violence en route, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, in a true display of leadership, met with the frazzled masses, urging them to keep hope alive. This, along with the busting of an RSS cell in Karachi, and a violent mob attack on Dawn’s Delhi press, marked some of the prominent stories from Sept 15 to 21, 1947. Soothing words Many among the millions that had crossed over into Pakistan at the time of Independence had liter

Source: Dawn