Quaid-e-Azam Baba-i-Qaum Muhammad Ali Jinnah محمد علی جناح |
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Born |
Mahomedali Jinnahbhai25 December 1876 Karachi, Bombay Presidency, British India |
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Died |
11 September 1948 (aged 71) Karachi, Federal Capital Territory, Pakistan |
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Resting place |
Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi |
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Pakistani governor-general
Jinnah was an Indian politician who successfully campaigned for independent Pakistan and became its first leader. He is known there as 'Quaid-I Azam' or 'Great Leader'.
Birth
Mohammed Ali Jinnah was born on December 25, 1876 in Karachi, now in Pakistan, but then became part of British-occupied India. His father was a prosperous Muslim merchant.
Jinnah studied at Bombay University and at Lincoln's Inn in London. He then pursued a successful legal practice in Bombay. He was already a member of the Indian National Congress, which was working for independence from the British empire, when he joined the Muslim League in 1913. The league had established a few years ago to represent the interests of Indian Muslims in a predominantly Hindu country, and in 1916 he was elected its president.
Indian National Congress
In 1920, the Indian National Congress launched a campaign to boycott all aspects of British rule. Jinnah opposed the policy and resigned from the conference. There was now a big difference between the conference and the Muslim League.
After the provincial elections in 1937, the conference refused to make the union leaders and the Muslim League into mixed seats. Relations between Hindus and Muslims began to deteriorate. In 1940, at a Muslim conference in Lahore, the first official request was made for the separation of India and the reconstruction of the Islamic state of Pakistan. Jinnah had always believed that unity of Hindus and Muslims was possible, but he hesitated to come to the conclusion that division was necessary to protect the rights of Indian Muslims.
His persistence in the negotiations with the British government led to the partition of India and the formation of Pakistan on 14 August 1947. This came at a time when widespread violence between Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, and a large civil society between the new provinces of Pakistan and India in which hundreds of thousands died.
Death
Jinnah became the first governor of Pakistan, but he died of tuberculosis on September 11, 1948.
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