Muhammad Ali Jinnah محمد علی جناح | |
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 Jinnah in 1945 | |
| 1st Governor-General of Pakistan | |
| In office 14 August 1947 – 11 September 1948 | |
| Monarch | George VI |
| Prime Minister | Liaquat Ali Khan |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Khawaja Nazimuddin |
| 1st Speaker of the Constituent Assembly | |
| In office 11 August 1947 – 11 September 1948 | |
| Deputy | Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan |
| President of the Muslim League | |
| In office 15 December 1947 – 11 September 1948 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Liaquat Ali Khan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mahomedali Jinnahbhai 25 December 1876 Karachi, Bombay Presidency |
| Died | 11 September 1948 (aged 71) Karachi, Federal Capital Territory, Dominion of Pakistan |
| Resting place | Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Political party | Muslim League (1947–1948) |
| Other political affiliations | Indian National Congress (1906–1920) All-India Muslim League (1913–1947) |
| Spouses | |
| Relations | See Jinnah family |
| Children | 1 (Dina Wadia) |
| Alma mater | Lincoln's Inn |
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah[a] (born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai;[b] 25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948) was a barrister, politician, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pakistan on 14 August 1947 and then as the Republic of Pakistan's first governor-general until his death.
Born at Wazir Mansion in Karachi, Jinnah was trained as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn in London, England. Upon his return to India, he enrolled at the Bombay High Court, and took an interest in national politics, which eventually replaced his legal practice. Jinnah rose to prominence in the Indian National Congress in the first two decades of the 20th century. In these early years of his political career, Jinnah advocated Hindu–Muslim unity, helping to shape the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the All-India Muslim League, in which Jinnah had also become prominent. Jinnah became a key leader in the All-India Home Rule League, and proposed a fourteen-point constitutional reform plan to safeguard the political rights of Muslims in the Indian subcontinent. In 1920, however, Jinnah resigned from the Congress when it agreed to follow a campaign of satyagraha, which he regarded as political anarchy.
By 1940, Jinnah had come to believe that the Muslims of the subcontinent should have their own state to avoid the possible marginalised status they might be reduced to in an independent Hindu–Muslim state. In that year, the Muslim League, led by Jinnah, passed the Lahore Resolution, demanding a separate nation for Indian Muslims. During the Second World War, the League gained strength while leaders of the Congress were imprisoned, and in the provincial elections held shortly after the war, it won most of the seats reserved for Muslims. Ultimately, the Congress and the Muslim League could not reach a power-sharing formula that would allow the entirety of British India to be united as a single state following independence, leading all parties to agree instead to the independence of a Hindu-majority India, and for a predominantly Muslim state of Pakistan.
As the first governor-general of Pakistan, Jinnah worked to establish the new nation's government and policies, and to aid the millions of Muslim migrants who had emigrated from neighbouring India to Pakistan after the two states' independence, personally supervising the establishment of refugee camps. Jinnah died at age 71 in September 1948, just over a year after Pakistan gained independence from the United Kingdom. He left a deep and respected legacy in Pakistan. Several universities and public buildings in Pakistan bear Jinnah's name. He is revered in Pakistan as the Quaid-e-Azam ("Great Leader") and Baba-e-Qaum ("Father of the Nation"). His birthday is also observed as a national holiday in the country. According to his biographer, Stanley Wolpert, Jinnah remains Pakistan's greatest leader.
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- ^ Bawany, Yahya Hashim (1987). Rare speeches and documents of Quaid-e-Azam. Arif Mukati. pp. 39–40.