EXACTLY one hundred years ago, in 1923, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, then aged 47, was in the middle of a crucial transition. With his brilliance as a barrister and political leader already proven in ...

Comparing Gandhi and Jinnah is an extremely complex exercise but important for they were, or rather became, the two foci of the freedom movement. Gandhi was doubtless of a very different mould, but he ...

Now, it is the after life of its three important players -- Gandhi, Jinnah and Nehru -- that lies in question. A moral distinction between good or evil calculated by a divine source which takes ...

December 25 was Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s 148th birth anniversary. This piece in Pakistan daily Dawn looks at the many setbacks Pakistan's founding father, called Quaid-i-Azam, faced over the course ...

In response to a letter on 26 April 1947 from Viceroy Mountbatten on the subject, Jinnah reiterated: “I shall be delighted … they had much better remain united and independent. I am sure they ...

Jinnah started his public life as the highly ... political innings as a prominent Muslim League leader with a feudal background eventually evolved to a secular and progressive leader of the ...

including those of Hindu background, who viewed India’s struggle for independence as a sacred mission. That obviously made Muslims uncomfortable. Jinnah sought Gandhi’s involvement but was met ...