Abstract: The file contains a copy of ‘Regulations concerning the Flight of Aircraft to or across Pakistan’, published by the Government of Pakistan in Karachi, 29 May 1948 (f 3), which draws attention to a notification on its reverse, issued by the Government of Pakistan Ministry of Communications, dated 30 April 1948 (f 3v), signed by H M Zuberi, stipulating the conditions under which aircraft should fly across Pakistan, and the circumstances under which aircraft should be obliged to land at one of the country’s airports. The remaining item of note in the file is a covering letter for the regulations, from the Secretary to the Government of Pakistan, dated 25 September 1948 (f 2, with duplicate on f 4), with a list of recipients.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence about British efforts to obtain supplies of rice for local consumption in the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms, particularly Bahrain, Qatar and the shaikhdoms of the Trucial Coast, in the years after the Second World War (1939-1945). British and Bahrain Government officials disseminate details about offers of rice from the Government of Pakistan and also the allocation of Egyptian quota import rice from British Ministry of Food rice stores in Egypt. There is also extensive correspondence between the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Political Officer for Qatar at Doha, about a prolonged dispute between Qatari and Bahraini merchants over the delayed transhipment of Egyptian quota import rice for Qatar, which had been landed at Bahrain.The main correspondents are the Political Agent and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, both Bahrain; the Political Officers for Qatar and the Trucial Coast; the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain and the Director of Customs and Port Officer, Bahrain. The file also contains copy correspondence between Foreign Office and Ministry of Food officials in London about the latter’s decision to no longer procure rice from the Egyptian authorities for allocation to the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms after 1950, given the proposed winding up of the International Emergency Food Committee (IEFC) allocation system at the end of 1950.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 97; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-95; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
Abstract: This file contains a report entitled 'Events in India and Pakistan during December 1947' that was sent from the Persian Gulf Residency in Bahrain to the Political Agencies in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. The report is divided up as follows:A. Relations between the Two Dominions: Kashmir, Financial Relations, Jundagadh, Communal SituationB. India: Internal Political Situation, Hyderabad, Eastern States, External Affairs, Food Policy, Industries Conference, Shipping, Import ControlC. Pakistan: Internal Political Situation, Muslim League, North West Frontier, External Affairs, Industries Conference, Food Situation, Railway Rates, Air Transport, Cotton, Jute.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 13; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file relates to the renewal of the Commercial Treaty between Britain and Muscat. The original treaty of 1891 was given a term of twelve years, which was extended at regular intervals afterwards, initially for several years at a time and later on an annual basis. In 1939 a replacement treaty was signed between the two parties.The file concerns the impact on the new treaty of the recent constitutional changes in India and Pakistan. The correspondence covers the following: the appointment of consuls by the British Government on behalf of India (as stipulated in the 1939 treaty), and whether this arrangement will continue once India becomes a republic; the question of whether the new dominion of Pakistan automatically remains a party to the treaty; the Sultan of Muscat and Oman's [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] intention not to renew the treaty, which is due to expire in February 1951.The file features the following correspondents: the Political Agent and Consul, Muscat; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the United Kingdom's High Commissioner for India; officials of the Foreign Office and the Government of Pakistan.Included with the correspondence is a copy of an order issued by Governor-General Mountbatten of Burma [Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma] on 14 August 1947 – an agreement regarding the devolution of international rights and obligations upon the dominions of India and PakistanPhysical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 26; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file consists of letters, notes, memoranda and telegrams between officials of the Foreign Office, the Commonwealth Relations Office, the Secretary to the India Office’s Political Department, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, regarding the distribution of intelligence summaries from India and Pakistan written by Laurence Grafftey-Smith, UK High Commissioner in Pakistan, to the Political Resident. The purpose of the reports is to describe the political situation in India and Pakistan.The file also contains memoranda regarding political and general situation reports from the UK High Commissioners in India and Pakistan.The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 21, these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains British Government correspondence regarding four prominent Egyptian journalists visiting Pakistan at the Pakistan Government's request and potential criticism the visit may incur. The main correspondents include the Foreign Office and the British Embassy in Cairo.This file contains a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 14, these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: This file consists of correspondence between the Foreign Office, HM Ambassador, Amman, and the Commonwealth Relations Office regarding the deportation of Rashid Ahmed Chughtai, a representative of an Ahmedia [Ahmadiyya] organization of Pakistan, from Jordan to Syria.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 13; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Written in a professional taʻlīq script in black ink, rubricated in red, 20 lines per page in 4 gold-ruled columns. Contains 115 miniatures portraying various scenes from the poem.Written by the professional calligrapher Khalīl Allāh Haftʻqalamī probably in Lahore in 1131-1134 1718-1722 (ff. 1r, 201v, 203r, 403r). Last miniature is signed by ʻAbd al-Salām and ʻAbd al-Karīm, residents of Kashmīr, Rajab 1134 1722 (f. 398v).The ms is prepared for Sayyidʻzādah ʻIṣmat Allāh Khān (f. 201r).Bound in brown leather with onlays and tooling, gilt, rebacked.MS Persian 78. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.
Naʻīm Allāh al-Ḥanafī al-Majdawī Bahrāychī.Lithographed.Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation. December 2002. http:purl.oclc.orgDLFbenchrepro0212 MHIn Persian.