THIS is with reference to the article ‘Learning from China’ (July 10). I wish the scientist-writer had quoted some source to let us know when, where and exactly what the Quaid-i-Azam said that showed he “feared and disliked” China.
In Jinnah’s lifetime, China was a divided country. During his crucial years as leader of the Pakistan movement, he saw China engaged, first, in resisting the Japanese invaders, and, second, after the war, in civil war between Mao Zedong’s Communist Party of China and Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Party. Even during the 13 months he lived as Pakistan’s head of state, Jinnah never had the pleasure or fear of seeing China united or Red.