(EDITORIAL) On this sacred and historic day Dawn is proud to be able to present its readers in Pakistan with an edition of their own. From today this newspaper is being published simultaneously from the capitals of Pakistan and Hindustan. Since it was brought into being through the efforts of the Qaed-e-Azam six years ago, Dawn has served the cause of the nation in its own humble way. Its difficulties have been many, its handicaps great and of ten it has had to be produced under almost impossible conditions. Those responsible for its conduct have throughout been sustained by the ungrudging support which they have received from its readers and from the Muslim public generally.

...We would like to take this opportunity to reiterate what the Qaed-e-Azam has more than once publicly stated, that Dawn does not belong to any individual but to the nation. It is true that the Qaed-e-Azam founded it but he has made a gift of it to the nation in the shape of a National Trust of which he is the Trustee.-DawnKarachi