Q.1 When and where did Quaid-e-Azam come according to the beginning of the lesson Pakistan zindabad?
Ans: Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah came to Maripur airport in Karachi by an Aircraft on August 7, 1947.
Q.2
What description of Quaid-e-Azam did the writer give when he stepped out of the airplane at Maripur airport Karachi?
Ans: The airplane came smoothly into land at Maripur airport Karachi. The Quaid-e-Azam stepped out of the airplane he was a tall and very dignified elderly man wearing a pure white sherwani.
Q.3
Who gathered at Maripur airport to welcome the Quaid-e-Azam? How did people
welcome the Quaid-e-Azam at Maripur airport in Karachi on August 7, 1947?
Ans: A Vast and excited crowd of people was gathered to welcome the Quaid-e-Azam at Maripur airport Karachi on August 7, 1947, when he appeared from the airplane the whole crowd roared with a single chant "Pakistan Zindabad", "Pakistan Zindabad". Every one of them participated to welcome him and getting as close to him as possible to see him closely.
Q.4
Why did the people give a warm welcome to Quaid-e-Azam at Maripur airport
Karachi with the slogans of Pakistan zindabad on August 7, 1947.
Ans: Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the president of the All India Muslim League and also a great leader of the Muslims in the subcontinent. The viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten had announced that the British would leave by August 15, 1947, and hand over their powers to the new states of Pakistan and India. The Quaid-e-Azam reached the airport in Karachi on August 7, 1947. They gave him a warm welcome because he was their beloved leader and the first Governor-general of their new country and had won Pakistan for them.
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Q.5
How did the Quaid-e-Azam behave when he drove through the great sea of people?
Ans: After Quaid-e-Azam arrived in Karachi on August 7, 1947, and drove through the great sea of people that stretched from the Maripur airport to the city through all the cheers and tears of joy and the never-ending cries of Pakistan zindabad, the Quaid-e-Azam gave no sign of his personal feelings.
Q.6
What did the author tell about the behavior and personal feelings of
Quaid-e-Azam in the lesson Pakistan zindabad?
Ans: The author describes in the lesson Pakistan zindabad that Quaid-e-Azam was a man of strong feelings and his behavior was very civilized he always kept his feelings hidden from others through all the excitement of those first days in the life of The Young Nation the Quaid-e-Azam who had made it possible remain calm serious and even severe.
Q.7
What opinion did the author give about the calm and serious behavior of
Quaid-e-Azam in the lesson "Pakistan Zindabad"?
Ans: When Quaid-e-Azam drove through the great sea of people that stressed from Maripur airport to the city, he remained calm and serious. According to the author's opinion, he was thinking of the thousands who were attacked and killed on the roads and railways as they tried to reach their new Homeland. There was much in those days of violence to sudden Jinnah all those so really showed them.
Q.8 What did Quaid-e-Azam do if he feel the pride of joy in what he had done?
Ans: Mohammed Ali Jinnah was a man of very strong feelings if he felt pride or joy in what we had done he did not let anybody see it.
Q.9
What even did the author present to show that a warm-hearted man was behind the
stern Quaid-e-Azam in the lesson Pakistan zindabad?
Ans: The author described in the lesson Pakistan zindabad that those persons who are very close to Quaid-e-Azam on Independence Day sometimes so for a few moments a happier man once he went to a balcony of the government house where he could see without being seen and as he looked down on the crowds still sharing in the streets outside his smile in that smile could be seen the warm-hearted man behind the stern Quaid-e-Azam.
Q.10
What satisfaction did Mohammad Ali Jinnah have by that time though he was
tired?
Ans: Muhammad Ali Jinnah was at that time tired and far from well but he had the satisfaction of knowing that the greater part of his work was done.
Q.11
How did the Muslims of the subcontinent become a nation by the determination
and leadership of Quaid-e-Azam.
Ans: By the force of determination and leadership of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah a people who had once been a small defeated group with little to hope for an empire ruled by a foreign power had become the greatest Muslim state and the fifth largest nation in the world. 17 million people who once had no country to call their own had overnight become a nation.
Q.12
Write down the speech of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah which he delivered to
tell the people of Pakistan that they were equal citizens of a state.
Ans: Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
addressed the people after a few days after he arrived in Karachi, the speech
of Quaid-e-Azam was following"
“You are free, you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or any other places of worship within the state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or cast. We are all citizens of one state.”
(Quaid-e-Azam, August 11, 1947)
Q.13
what lesson did Quaid-e-Azam remind in his speech on August 11, 1947?
Ans: when Quaid-e-Azam delivered his speech to common people on August 11, 1947, he of course reminded them of the Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace be upon him) teaching that all men are equal in the eyes of Allah.
Q.14
Who was the first Governor-General of Pakistan?
Ans: Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the first Governor-General of Pakistan. Karachi was the first capital of Pakistan, so Quaid-e-Azam arrived in Karachi on August 7, 1947, by a plane at Maripur airport, he address the nation on August 11, 1947.
Q.15 Who was the last viceroy of India?
Ans: Lord Mountbatten (1879 – 1900) was the last viceroy of India. He came to India in March 1947. He quickly decided that India must be divided into two States. He was sent to India with orders to find a way of handing over the government. He also served as the first Governor-general of India after partition from August 1947 to June 1948.
Q.16
When and where was the Pakistan resolution declared?
Ans: The Pakistan resolution was passed at the annual session of the All India Muslim League held on 23rd March 1940 in Lahore this resolution was presented by Molvi Fazl ul Haq (1873- 1962) and it was at first instance seconded by Chaudhary Khalikuzama (1889 – 1973).
Q.17
State briefly what the "Pakistan Resolution" decided?
Ans: It was decided in the "Pakistan Resolution” that the Muslims of South Asia struggle to achieve an independent state for the Muslims by joining those parts of the subcontinent where the Muslims were in majority.
According to Pakistan Resolution, the Muslims agreed not to accept any plan for India which failed to give the Muslims an independent state in those parts of India where more Muslims than Hindus.
Q.18
Who invented the name Pakistan what did he write about the creation of this
name?
Ans: The name Pakistan was invented by Choudhary
Rehmat Ali (1893 – 1951) in 1933 when he published his pamphlet “Now or Never”.
He was a Cambridge student at that time and spent his life fighting for the idea
of a separate homeland for the Muslims.
The word “Pakistan” that he invented, was created from
both Persian and Urdu languages it was composed of letters taken from the
homelands of the Muslims both India and Asians that is Punjab, Afghania (North
West Frontier Province), Kashmir, Iran, Sindh including Kutch and Kathiawar, Tukharistan,
Afghanistan, and Balochistan. It means the land of the Paks which are
spiritually pure and clean.
Q.19
What advice did the Quaid-e-Azam give to the Muslims in his speech at the
annual session of the Muslim League in Lahore?
Ans: The Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
addressed the Muslims at the annual session of the Muslim League at Lahore in 1940.
He advised the Muslims to think hundred times before they make a decision but
once the decision was made stand by it as one man.
Q.20
Why did the Quaid-e-Azam declare that no power on earth can undo Pakistan?
Ans: After the approval of the Pakistan
Resolution, the Muslims of the Sub-Continent became united on the ideology of a
separate homeland for themselves. They started struggling on a common platform,
therefore the Quaid-e-Azam was right when he declared that no power on earth
can undo Pakistan.
Q.21
Where did the Congress leaders spend most of their time during the Second World
War?
Ans: The Congress leaders spend most of
their time during the Second World War in prison, on account of their mass
civil disobedience plan against India’s declaration of war.
Q.22
What did Quaid-e-Azam do for the unity of Muslims during the Second World War?
Ans: The Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
won over all the Muslims during the Second World War. He traveled from place
to place to speak to huge meetings of the Muslims. He also started a newspaper
which he called Dawn. Throughout the war years, he was a very sick man, but he
refused to take his doctor’s advice to take rest. “I have work to do”, he would
always say.
Q.23
Why could an agreement not achieve from Gandhi and Jinnah's talks?
Ans: Gandhi and Jinnah met for three weeks
of talks in a last attempt to reach an agreement. Jinnah said that India must
be two nations, not one. Gandhi replied that this would mean ruin for all of India. There could be no agreement between two men so different. Jinnah was as
usual very severe and firm, faultlessly dressed; Gandhi wore his familiar white
dhoti and sat on the floor. One was a Muslim first and last, and the other was
a Hindu at his fingertips.
Q.
24 What was the view of Quaid-e-Azam about the Hindus and Muslims?
Ans: The Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
had a clear view of the Muslims and Hindus. They believed that both the
Muslims and Hindus are different creatures and two nations in India. There is
nothing ordinary in their life that could join them together.
Q.
25 Why did Britain declare to leave India after the Second World War? Why
were the British officers eager to leave India as soon as possible?
Ans: After the Second World War came the
time for the final settlement. When several more meetings and discussions had
failed to bring about an agreement, Britain declared that they were going to
give full self-government to the people of India and leave the country by June 1948. But the country was already on the verge of civil war. The government was
divided and powerless and the British officers were eager to leave a country
where they were no longer wanted.
Q.
26 What were the provinces that voted to join Pakistan?
Ans: A number of provinces voted to join
Pakistan. These provinces were Sindh, West Punjab, Sylhet, East Bengal, North-West
Frontier Provinces, and Baluchistan. This made a smaller state than the Muslim
League had asked for.
Q.
27 Who were the former enemies? Why did Quaid-e-Azam beg for peace and
friendship with his former enemies?
Ans: The Hindus were the former enemies of
the Quaid-e-Azam. They were opposed to the Quaid-e-Azam because he was the
leader of the Muslims. After the partition of India about half a million
Muslims were killed or carried away as prisoners. Quaid-e-Azam begged for peace
and friendship with his former enemies. He requested the Hindu leaders to stop
all bloodshed and killing and to befriend again. He used to say that some
nations have killed millions of each other and yet an enemy of today is a
friend of tomorrow.
Q.
28 Why did Kashmir not join Pakistan?
Ans: Kashmir was a state where the Muslims
were in majority, but a Hindu Maharajah ruled over the state. The people
especially the Muslims wanted to join Pakistan but the Hindu Maharaja of
Kashmir treacherously hand over this Muslim State to India.
Q.29
How large was the population of Pakistan when it became independent?
Ans: When Pakistan came into being an
independent state, its population was seventy million. After the establishment
of Pakistan, some forty million Muslims were left in India but now, at last, it
could be said that most Indian Muslims had a homeland of their own.
Q.30
How does Pakistan compare in size and population with the other nations of the
world?
Ans: In the size of the population, Pakistan is
the fifth largest nation in the world and it is also the bigger Muslim country in
the world. Pakistan is an ideological Muslim state.
Q.
31 Why does the writer apply the word “terrible” to the first-ever year of
Pakistan’s history as an independent state?
Ans: Pakistan faced many political,
economic, and administrative problems soon after its establishment as an
independent state during the first year of its history, therefore, the writer
has applied the word “terrible” to show the first year of Pakistan’s history,
When the partitions were made, millions of people crossed the new borders of the
state. Six and a half million Muslims left India and five and a half million
Hindus were leaving Pakistan. Once more angry crowds murdered and stole and burned.
About half a million Muslims were killed or carried away as prisoners.
Q.
32 What is the meaning of “Quaid-e-Azam”? Why is Muhammad Ali Jinnah called
Quaid-e-Azam?
Ans: The meaning of Quaid-e-Azam is “The
Great Leader”. Muhammad Ali Jinnah struggled hard to unite the Muslims as a
nation and to achieve the cause of the Muslims. In appreciation of his services
as a great leader, the nation gave him the title of “Quaid-e-Azam”.
Q.33
When and where was the Quaid-e-Azam born?
Ans: The Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
was born in Karachi on December 25, 1876.
Q.34
When did the Quaid-e-Azam die? Why Is he remembered till today?
Ans:
The Quaid-e-Azam
Muhammad Ali Jinnah died on September 11, 1948. He is remembered today as
the founder of Pakistan.
Q.
35 Where is the tomb of Quaid-e-Azam?
Ans: The Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
died on September 11, 1948. He was buried in the heart of the city where he was
born. The tomb of the Quaid-e-Azam is located in Karachi.
Q.
36 Describe the personality of Quaid-e-Azam as depicted in the lesson “Pakistan
Zindabad”.
Ans: The Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
was a great leader. He possessed a very dignified personality. He always wore a neat and faultless dress. He spoke and behaved bravely. He was a man of very
strong feelings. He never showed his personal feelings to others. If he felt
pride or a job in what he had done, he did not let anybody see it. He usually
looked calm, serious, and even severe. He had a firm determination and brilliant
qualities of leadership. He had the ability to work tirelessly or achieve a
cause. Despite his growing illness he worked hard, attended huge meetings
arranged by the Muslims, and managed to issue a daily newspaper, Dawn. After the
establishment of Pakistan, he served as the first Governor-General of Pakistan
and led the nation through the terrible first year of Pakistan’s history.
Apparently, the Quaid-e-Azam looked very severe but actually, he was a very
warm-hearted person.
Q.37
What role did Allama Iqbal play in the Pakistan Movement?
Ans: Dr. Allama Iqbal was born in Sialkot. He is generally known as a great poet. He was not only a great poet but also a great philosopher and a political thinker. He served as the president of the Punjab Muslim League. He presided over the meeting of the All India League at Allahabad in 1930. He gave the idea of Pakistan in his presidential address and also demanded a separate homeland for the Muslims of the Sub-Continent.
Q.38
Briefly describe the Quaid-e-Azam’s contribution to the creation of Pakistan.
Ans: The Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
was born in Karachi on 25th December 1876. He studied law in
England. He knew very well about the system of government which was led by the
British in South Asia. He was totally aware of the bad condition of survival of
the Muslims in South Asia. He left the Indian National Congress and joined the All-India Muslim League. He tried his best to unite the Muslims. He kindled a new
imagination among the frustrated Muslims of South Asia. By the force of his
determination and leadership, people who had once been a small defeated group
in an empire ruled by a foreign power had become the greatest of Muslim states
and the fifth largest nation in the World.
In March 1940, Quaid-e-Azam told the
Muslim League at its Lahore session, “think a hundred times before you make a
decision but once the decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”
Quaid-e-Azam took the idea of the Pakistan
Resolution to the people. He traveled from place to place speaking in huge public
meetings. He fought for the rights of the Muslims. He talked with Mr. Gandhi
for three weeks.
He also started a newspaper “Dawn” which was the first English newspaper for the Muslims. Due to his efforts, the Muslims got succeeded in achieving a separate homeland for themselves. He became the first Governor-General of Pakistan and served the country and nation selflessly. He died on September 11, 1948, and was buried in Karachi.