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'We are all equal citizens of one State'
It is the 70th anniversary of the Partition. In August 1947, British India won its independence and split into two new states - India and Pakistan. Here Pakistani-born British actor Art Malik reads an extract of the speech made at the time by Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the first governor general of Pakistan.
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