Description
Pakistan The Heart of Asia is a volume composed primarily of the speeches made by Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, during his brief trip to the United States and Canada in May and June 1950. With the addresses of the Prime Minister are printed also a very few of the introductory or commentative speeches made by distinguished citizens of the two countries to audiences the Prime Minister was addressing. It is not easy to exaggerate how much depends upon whether this collaboration is realised. The relationship between the Western World and Asia, which began with the European imperial conquests some four centuries ago, is in its very last phase. As the old empires have dissolved, the problem of the succession has arisen. In most of Asia, in what we call the Far East particularly, the problem of the succession is not solved. But in southeast Asia, in the enormous subcontinent, the problem has been solved by the emergence of two powerful, two pacific, two sovereign Asiatic states India and Pakistan.