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PU CSAS organizes seminar
PU CSAS organizes seminar


LAHORE (Wednesday, January 30, 2019): Punjab University Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS) in collaboration with Partition 1947 Archive Organization has organized seminar ‘Fellowship of 1947 Partition Archive’ at its auditorium. Brig (r) Khalid Amin was the keynote speaker while Director CSAS Prof Dr Umbreen Javaid, faculty members, M.Phil/PhD scholars and a large number of students participated in the event. In his address, Brig (r) Khalid Amin discussed the personal account of experiences when he was in Delhi in 1940s. He described that the atrocities of British Raj and Hindus on the Muslims which laid the foundation of Pakistan as a separate autonomous state. He said that under the British colonial rule the Muslims suffered a lot. He said that Quaid-e-Azam was respected a lot by all the Muslims and he played the key role in establishment of Pakistan.