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Event - 1976-03-12-A

Date: 
Friday, 1976, March 12
Location: 

Made a speech at tthe Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, Karachi, Pakistan

person_place_reference: 
H.H. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV


Speech

Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs 1976-03-12

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Source: 
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Mr. Chairman, Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Let me first say how grateful I am for your invitation to speak to this distinguished audience in Karachi today and for your kind words about my family and about myself.

Perhaps I should begin by defining what I mean by the phrase “Nation States”. First it is the land area or areas over which a single government exercises authority in terms of internal administration and external defense and whose frontiers are recognized, legally or de facto, by other nation states.

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