Founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah called by the Nation Quaid-i-Azam - Great Leader was born in Karachi on 25th December 1876. He got his early education in Karachi. Since boyhood, he was brilliant and promising, zealously devoted to his studies and fired with the ambition to grow up to be a great man. No wonder he did achieve greatness by his extraordinary qualities of mind and determination.
After passing the matriculation
examination at the age of 16, he left for England where in 1896 he qualified
himself as Barrister-at-Law from Lincoln's Inn. Back in India he started
practicing as a lawyer in Karachi at the age of 20. Later he moved to Bombay
where he established a very successful practice. He began taking part in the
country's freedom movement since the early nineties. In 1910, he was elected to
the Imperial Legislative Council. He remained associated with the Council and
its successor, the Central Assembly, for over 30 years. In 1913, he joined the
Muslim League, an organization formed in 1906, to safeguard the legitimate
interest of the Indian Muslims, who numbered about one third of the country's
population. He became president of the All India Muslim League in 1916.
Throughout his subsequent political career, he fought fervently for the just
interests of the Indian Muslims, and championed their cause with devotion and
courage.
Convinced by the past experience
that as a minority community, the political interests of Muslims and their
distinct cultural identity could never remain safe after the withdrawal of
British rule from the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent, he put forward the plan
envisaging the establishment of a separate home land - Pakistan in the areas
where the Muslims were in majority. In 1940, the famous Pakistan Resolution was
passed at Lahore demanding the creation of Pakistan as an independent,
sovereign country. Thereafter, the achievement of Pakistan as a separate
homeland became Jinnah's dominant aim which he stead fastly pursued, and by
dint of his exceptional statesmanship, constitutional acumen, and intelligent advocacy,
he ultimately succeeded in getting the Pakistan idea accepted by the Indian
National Congress a predominantly Hindu political organization - as well as the
British Government.
Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
became the first Governor-General of Pakistan after its emergence as a new
country on the 14th August 1947. He died in Karachi on 11th September, 1948.
