DEMAND BY MOSLEMS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24800, 14 February 1946, Page 5

DEMAND BY MOSLEMS

Six Provinces For Pakistan

JINNAH PREDICTS REVOLT

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13. A Moslem revolt if the British carried out their announced intention of calling a single Constitution-making body for a free unified India was predicted by the president of the Moslem League (Mr Jinnah) in an interview with the “New York Times” correspondent in New Delhi.

Mr Jinnah declared that Moslems were willing to fight if the British failed to provide for Pakistan, which would constitute a sovereign Moslem State covering the six northern Indian provinces from Baluchistan to Assam.

The correspondent says that this demand goes further than anything previously asked by the Moslem League, since the provinces mentioned constitute the most highly developed and most populous part of India, with its major agricultural production and heavy industry and its greatest port. Mr Jinnah added: “It is up to the British to make the right move. If they don’t God help us. “The only course open is for the British to concede Pakistan,’ he said, “then we can proceed to the demarcation of boundaries between Pakistan and Hindustan, and the two Indian nations can establish their own constitutional assemblies and make their own treaties.”