Mohammed Ali Jinnah
1876-1948
Founder of Pakistan
Jinnah was born in Karachi. He attended the University of Bombay and studied law in England.
Jinnah first entered politics by participating in the 1906 Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress, the party that called for dominion status and later for independence for India.
At first he was a supporter of Hindu-Moslem unity but after the rise of Gandhi he became concerned about the future position of Moslems in a close-knit structure of Hindu social organisation. Slowly Jinnah became convinced that a Moslem homeland on the Indian subcontinent was the only way of safeguarding the Moslem way of life. He joined the Moslem League and converted it into a powerful instrument for unifying the Moslems into a nation.
As President of the Moslem League he demanded a separate Moslem state in 1940, securing the partition of India in 1947. He became the first Governor-General of Pakistan, where he is still revered as the father of the nation.
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