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Chandigarh, Monday, October 28, 1974 As part of its political strategy for the Indian subcontinent, the Soviet Union has been shrewdly striving for a permanent foothold in Pakistan. It has already secured India’s lasting goodwill through generous economic assistance and...

Lahore, Sunday, October 26, 1924 IT is now some months since Sir Malcolm Hailey became Governor of Punjab. The reception that was accorded to him at Lahore on Friday morning was, therefore, nothing but a formal and conventional affair, unless,...

Lahore, Saturday, October 25, 1924 FROM October 16, when the Reforms Enquiry Committee re-assembled at Simla after a month and a half’s adjournment, to October 22, the last day for which the proceedings of the committee are before us at...

Lahore, Friday, October 24, 1924 THE controversy that has recently taken place in the Press and elsewhere over the question whether a settlement of the communal problem must precede a united endeavour on the part of different communities for the...

Lahore, Thursday, October 23, 1924 ALTHOUGH Sir John Maynard appeared before the Reforms Enquiry Committee with the avowed object of removing the ‘misapprehensions’ caused and the ‘misstatements’ made by some witnesses, the evidence actually given by him contains more than...

Lahore, Wednesday, October 22, 1924 AT a time when the prevailing note in India is that of a certain soul-killing sadness and despair, when there seems to be no way out of the maze into which, in the working out...

Lahore, Tuesday, October 21, 1924 IN the latest issue of Young India, Mahatma Gandhi has written a short article in which he beautifully sums up the case for making spinning the qualification for membership of the Congress. “If a monetary...

Lahore, Sunday, October 19, 1924 THE Punjab Government has issued an important resolution stating its position with regard to the recent enhancement of water rates and the other proposals for additional taxation to meet the deficit in the budget for...

Lahore, Saturday, October 18, 1924 WE have ventured to ask Mr. Jinnah how he proposes to reconcile his view that religion must be divorced from politics with his advocacy of special representation of his community from top to bottom-not only...

Lahore, Friday, October 17, 1924 WE are bound to repeat that the position as regards the Kohat “investigation” as disclosed in the recent Simla communique is far from satisfactory. “Investigations,” says the communique “have been somewhat delayed by the failure...

Lahore, Thursday, October 16, 1924 IT has for some time been obvious that Liberalism in England is a spent force and that it is dying a slow death. The progress is likely to be materially accelerated by the suicidal action...

Lahore, Wednesday, October 15, 1924 WE have hitherto purposely refrained from making any comment upon the Allahabad riots, except by way of expressing the grief which all patriotic Indians must feel at the occurrence of these disgraceful incidents on the...

Lahore, Tuesday, October 14, 1924 ALTHOUGH it has been generally known for some days that one of two things, either the resignation of Government or the dissolution of Parliament, was about to take place, few had anticipated until the event...

Lahore, Sunday, October 12, 1984 ON another page will be found the text of the speech made by the Viceroy in opening the annual session of the Railway Conference Association in the Assembly Chamber at Simla on Thursday morning. In...

Lahore, Saturday, October 11, 1924 THE Statesman of Calcutta has rendered a service to India by publishing special messages from the leaders of various communities in India as well as certain high officials, including the Viceroy and the Secretary of...

Lahore, Friday, October 10, 1924 THE presidential address delivered by Khan Bahadur Sheikh Abdul Qadir, Bar-at-Law, at the Muslim Provincial Educational Conference held at Campbellpur is a remarkable pronouncement in many respects. It not only sets forth clearly the educational...

Lahore, Thursday, October 9, 1924 UNDER the direction of Pandit Motilal Nehru, president of the Unity Conference, and the Working Committee of the Indian National Congress, October 8 was observed all over India as a day of national thanksgiving for...

Chandigarh, Tuesday, October 8, 1974 THE great Krishna Menon is dead, but Menonism is not. It will live in the hearts of men and women living far and wide. His talent and brilliance were seldom questioned, though his temper and...

Lahore, Tuesday, October 7, 1924 IN a recent issue, the Pioneer did a little plain-speaking about “the rabid and unscrupulous campaign that is being carried on in many Indian journals against British officials for their inability to perform miracles and...

Lahore, Sunday, October 5, 1924 THE Unity Conference, which opened at Delhi on September 26, concluded its sittings on Thursday after a week’s deliberations. The problem that it had taken upon itself to solve was the most difficult and delicate...

Lahore, Saturday, October 4, 1924 AS was to be expected, the resolutions of the Unity Conference on the subject of music at mosques, aarti and other kindred matters followed substantially the same lines as its resolution on cow slaughter. The...

Lahore, Friday, October 3, 1924 IT is scarcely necessary to say that the resolution on cow slaughter, which was adopted by the Subject Committee of the Unity Conference after a discussion lasting over two days and numerous consultations, is essentially...

Lahore, Thursday, October 2, 1924 POLITICAL India is so deeply occupied with the question of making England fulfil her solemn pledge of conceding to India her birthright of a full responsible government that she is apt to forget that there...

Lahore, Wednesday, October 1, 1924 IN a recent issue, we published the somewhat laconic statement of the Daily Express that “Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s troubles over India are such that Lord Olivier may leave the India Office.” We were not able...

Lahore, Tuesday, September 30, 1924 THE wonderful letter which Mahatma Gandhi has addressed to the President of the Unity Conference, wonderful in its conception as well as execution, in the sentiments it breathes, the views it expresses, the circumstances under...