Pakistan, Jan. 20 -- The founding father of the nation, Muhammad Ali Jinnah extended his categorical support to the cause of the Palestine people even before the creation of the Jewish State recognizing their right to their land where they have been living for millennia. By his statement, the Quaid had determined the contours of the country's foreign policy as far as the Muslim world was concerned. The Muslim world has since been the main plank of the foreign policy of the country.

To recapitulate, the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War; the revolt against the Caliphate in the Arab nations and the emergence of Great Britain and France as the new masters of the region in 1922 paved the ground for the creation of the Jewis...