The Reminiscences of Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan - Ahmadiyya

279 Pages·2009·6.89 MB·English

by  Zafrulla Khan

THE
REMINISCENCES
OF
SIR MUHAMMAD
ZAFRULLA KHAN
INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED
BY
PROFESSORS WAYNE WILCOX
AND AISLIE T. EMBREE
FOR COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
PROF. DR. PERVEZ PERWAZI
2004
"Copyright in the underlying English-language oral history upon which
this publication is based is owned by Columbia University in the City
of New York. Columbia University has not reviewed this publication
to determine whether it is an accurate translation of the interview.
No material from this publication may be reprinted without
obtaining the approval of the Columbia University. Requests to
quote material from the publication should be submitted to the Oral
History Research Office of Columbia University."
First published by the Oriental Publishers in June 2004.
Oriental Publishers, P.O. Box 96512, 2414 Major Mackenzie Drive,
Maple, Ontario, L6A 1B0, Canada.
Main entry under title: Reminiscences of Sir Muhammad Zafrulla
Khan. Based on interviews by Prof. Wayne Wilcox and Prof. Aislie
T. Embree of Columbia for Columbia University.
(IX) 256p. includes index.
Original Title in English: Reminiscences of Sir Muhammad Zafrulla
Khan.
ISBN — 0 973327 1 9
Notes=* 1 Khan Muhammad Zafrulla Sir, 1893-1985. 2. India -
History 1917-1947. 3. Pakistan - History 1947-1985. 4. India.
Politics and Government. 5. Pakistan Politics and Government. 6.
Muslim-India History. 7. India History Partition. 8. Pakistan
History Partition. 9. All India Muslim League History. 10. Pakistan
Movement History. 11. United Nations 1947-1954. 12. Judge
International Court of Justice 1954-1961 and 1964-1973. 13.
United Nations 1962-1963. 14. Vice President International Court
of Justice 1958-1961. President International Court of Justice 1970-
1973.
I. Perwazi, Pervez, 1936-. II. Reminiscences of Sir Muhammad
Zafrulla Khan. III. Based on interviews of Prof. Wayne Wilcox and
Prof. Aislie T. Embree in 1962-1963.
Cover Design by Nabeel Ahmad Rana
Published by Oriental Publishers, P. O. Box 96512, 2414 Major
Mackenzie Drive, Maple, Ontario L6A 1B0, Canada.
Printed at the Fazl-i-Umar Press, Chauncey, OH 45719, USA.
Dedication
I dedicate this book to Mr. Kunwer Idrees, my revered
teacher and a great admirer of Sir Zafrulla Khan.

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CONTENTS
Page
Preface vii
Acknowledgement ix
Introduction xi
INTERVIEW, MARCH 31, 1962 1
Biographical Sketch, The Khilafat Movement, Unionist
Party, Sikander-Jinnah-Khizr, Cabinet Mission Plan,
Two Muslim Leagues, Political Career, Simon
Commission, Delhi Conspiracy, Round Table
Conferences, President of All India Muslim League
Session, Working of Viceroy's Executive Council, etc.
etc.
INTERVIEW, MAY 12, 1962 50
Third Round Table Conference, First Commonwealth
Relations Conference, Membership of the Viceroy's
Executive Council.
INTERVIEW, MAY 19, 1962 73
Membership of the Viceroy's Executive Council.
INTERVIEW, JUNE 2, 1962 89
Viceroy's Executive Council, The Coronation of King
George The VI, Imperial Conference.
INTERVIEW, JUNE 16, 1962 107
1937 Elections, War Supply, Supreme Court of India,
Agent General to China, Dominion Minister's
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Conference, Last Session of League of Nations, Pacific
Relations Conference at Mont Tremblant.
INTERVIEW, JUNE 30, 1962 131
To England in 1943, Commonwealth Relations
Conference, 1945, Chaudhry Rahmat Ali.
INTERVIEW, JULY 7, 1962 141
Sir Khizr Hayat Khan, Partition and the Boundary
Commission.
INTERVIEW JULY 28, 1962 161
Advisory Role, to UN for Pakistan's Membership,
Pakistan's Foreign Minister, on Liaqat Ali Khan and
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, The Kashmir
Dispute and the UN.
INTERVIEW, SEPTEMBER 15, 1962 173
Kashmir, Sheikh Abdullah, UN and Pakistan's Role,
1948-1954, ICJ, Its Working and Jurisdiction, etc.
INTERVIEW, SEPTEMBER 22, 1962 197
Again in the UN in 1962, Disarmament Issue, South
African Issue.
INTERVIEW, OCTOBER 26, 1963 213
President of the UN General Assembly, 17th Session
and Particular Issues, Travels during Presidentship,
Back to ICJ.
INTERVIEW, NOVEMBER 17, 1963 232
Comparing the League of Nations and the UN, Munir
Enquiry Commission etc.
INDEX 247

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PREFACE
This memoir is the result of a series of tape-recorded
interviews conducted by Professors Wayne Wilcox and Aislie
T. Embree with Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan in New York
City during 1962.
Only minor corrections and emendations have been made, and
the reader is enjoined to bear in mind, therefore, that he is
reading a transcript of the spoken, rather than the written,
word.
Columbia University
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am grateful to Jessica Weiderhorn of the Columbia
University Oral History Department for her cooperation to get
permission from the University to publish the Reminiscences
of Sir Zafrulla Khan.
I am also indebted to my teacher, Mr. Kunwer Idrees of
Karachi, for extending a helpful hand to make this publication
possible. The following friends helped me in various ways:
Mr. Naseem Mahdi, Dr. I.U. Mangla, Dr. Safee Chaudhry, Col.
Raja Aslam, Mr. Hidayatullah Hadi, Mr. Nabeel Ahmad Rana,
Ch. Ehsan Elahi, Mr. Farhan Khokhar, Professor Dr. Basharat
Munir Mirza, Prof. Mubarak Ahmad Ansari, and Ms. Amatur
Rafique Rahat. Last, and not the least, Mr. Abdool Hamid
Abdool Rahman for editing the transcript and crossing the
"T"s and dotting the "I"s, and Mr. Muhammad Ismat Pasha for
his help in the word processing of the text in various stages of
preparation of the book.
Pervez Perwazi
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