DACCA: Addressing the annual convocation of the Dacca University, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah again clarified the position regarding the state language of Pakistan. He said that so far as the provincial language was concerned the people could choose any language they desired to adopt.

But there could be only one lingua franca, language of intercommunication for the whole of Pakistan. That language should be Urdu and could not be any other language.

Referring to the demand recently made in certain interested quarters that Bengali should be a state language along with Urdu, the Quaid-i-Azam said ...Urdu was the language ... which was nearer to the languages of other Islamic countries and which embodied in a larger measure than any other language Islamic culture and civilisation. ...

One hundred and ninety-two students, including seven girls, received their Degrees. ... The occasion was unique in ...

that a Calcutta firm which used to supply gowns for the students at the convocation refused to do so this time. ... The students, therefore, attended the convocation without gowns, but wearing only the hood. Dawn Spe cial Correspondent