Founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s 66th death anniversary is being observed today (Thursday) with seminars and ceremonies being held to pay tribute to the great leader.
Suffered from a deadly bout of tuberculosis and the undisputed leader of the All India Muslim League and the main architect behind the idea of a separate homeland for India’s Muslims, Jinnah died in an ambulance en route to Karachi after suffering from TB on 11 September 1948.
Born to a prosperous family of Gujarati merchants, Jinnah was born on December 25, 1876 in Karachi.
Educated in the Lincoln’s Inn in London and trained as a lawyer under their prestigious apprenticeship, the Founder of Pakistan began his political career by attending meetings of the All India Congress, a body set up by Indians with an ambition of self-government in Bombay in 1904 and became a Muslim representative of Bombay in the Imperial Legislative Council.
Once he took over the helm of the All India Muslim League his relentless drive and sheer force of his personality all but ensured the creation of Pakistan.
“Very few people have altered the course of world history. Even fewer have been credited with changing the map of the world. While it is an extremely rare individual who has been credited with creating a nation state” Jinnah did all three” (Stanley Wolpert in Jinnah of Pakistan).
