Mohammed Ali Jinnah or more precisely ‘Quaid-e-Azam’, which all Pakistanis refer to him as, was the founder and the first Governor General of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. He was born on the 25th of December, 1876 in Karachi. It was his sheer intelligence and overt potential that enabled him to pursue a field as challenging as law. At the age of fifteen, he went to England for higher studies and completed his studies at eighteen. Having now developed an interest in politics attributing to the contemporary events in England and back in the subcontinent, Mohammed Ali Jinnah even played a role in the election of an Indian to Parliament.

One of the youngest lawyers of his time, he returned at the age of twenty to set up his practice in Bombay. A persuasive barrister and a man of conviction, it wasn’t later that Mohammed Ali Jinnah had a plethora of clients, who trusted his caliber well enough to hand him their cases, which he won with effortless élan. In 1918, he married the daughter of a Parsee family, who later converted to Islam. The couple had a daughter in 1989, who was named Dina.

Jinnah was an active member of the Congress and later on joined the Muslim League in 1913. He was one of the greatest advocates of Hindu-Muslim unity, a notion, which broke, once the Nehru report effectively meant the end to political cooperation between the Muslim League and the Congress.

Later on Mohammed Ali Jinnah became the unanimous president of the Muslim League, after returning from England, where he was considering to get permanently settled. But on the insistence of leaders like Allama Iqbal and Liaquat Ali Khan, he changed his mind and led the Muslims of the subcontinent to an uncharted path of freedom.

It was his immense dedication that finally resulted in the creation of Pakistan, the first state ever to emerge on the world map purely because of the purpose of establishing Islam. He earned the title of ‘Father of the Nation’ from the Pakistanis, which he rightfully deserved. On 11th September, 1948, just after one year of Pakistan’s creation, he died of tuberculosis, a disease, which he didn’t pay particular attention to, as his focal and sole point of concentration was Pakistan’s creation and the well-being of its people. He was a true man of principles, a charismatic leader, who eventually sacrificed his own life for the security and welfare of his people. No amount of words could do justice to the extent of gratitude that we have for this great man!

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