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Road to Partition

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I'll See the Energy

Muhammad Ali Jinnah addressed his new country for the first time on August 15, 1947. He said Pakistan is a land of great, potentiose sources but to build it up will require every house of energy that people get. But these grand speeches were becoming more and more divorced from the reality on the ground, he says. "There was no clarity. There was not even a map of Pakistan circulated"

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