SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
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.
Leader of the All India Muslim League and the architect behind the idea of a separate homeland for India’s Muslims, Jinnah suffered from a deadly bout of tuberculosis and passed away on September 11, 1948 in an ambulance near Karachi, the former capital of independent Pakistan.
Born to a prosperous family of Gujarati merchants, Jinnah was born on December 25, 1876 in Karachi, then a part of British Indian Bombay Presidency.
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.
Although initially an opponent of the formation of the All India Muslim League, he rose to become its president in 1916. This was a decisive moment for the dream of a separate homeland for India’s Muslims and due to Jinnah’s struggle the nation of Pakistan came into being on August 14, 1947.
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