186	A PILGRIMAGE FOR PEACE
sion at Karachi Badshah Khan returned to the Frontier
Province to place before the people the programme of
Jamiat-ul-Awam or the new Pakistan People's Party.
" I have witnessed the show of the Pakistan Consti-
tuent Assembly/^7 he observed, addressing a mammoth
gathering in Mardan District. " There is absolutely no dif-
ference between the Pakistan leaders and the old British
bureaucrats,
" The most plausible argument which is usually ad-
vanced in their favour is that the new State is yet in its
infancy. I invite them to look to India where the leaders
have safely piloted the ship of State, despite extremely
stormy weather. They have framed their new constitu-
tion, whereas nothing so far has been done in Pakistan.
" The only conclusion one can draw is that the pre-
sent leaders of Pakistan are afraid of the democratic set-
up. The leaders, who have their own axe to grind,
consider Pakistan as their personal jagir. It is a pity that
all of them are muhajreen (refugees) and do not originally
belong to Pakistan."
He did not spare Qaid-e-Azam. " Mr. Jinnah, as the
•Governor-General of Pakistan, is not a representative of
the Muslim nation. He was appointed by the British
King and as such he is responsible to him and not to the
nation.
" I now take this opportunity to bring home to you
that Islamic Law or the Law of the Quran, as you call
it, for which you have been crying so long and for which
your dear and near ones have laid down their lives, would
never be enforced in Pakistan/'
Rising to a peroration, he concluded, " I warn you,
my Pathan brothers, that you are partners in the State of
Pakistan. You are fully entitled to a one-fourth share.
It is up to you now to rise and unite and pledge to achieve
•what is your due. Be united and act with determination
.and thus demolish the sandy walls which the leaders of
Pakistan have built around you. We cannot tolerate the
present state of affairs any longer. Gird up your loins and
march towards your cherished goal of freedom for the