Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Country of Birth:India Year of birth: 1876 Places of Residence: Karachi Brothers/sisters: Fatima Jinnah. Introduction Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Father of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnahs achievements as the founder of Pakistan, dominates everything else he did in his long and crowded public spanning some 42years. Yet, by any standard,his was an eventful life and his achievemnts if not equally great. End chapter 1 Early lfe and Education Jinnah was the first child born to Mithibai and Jinnahbhai Poonja. His father, Jinnahbhai (1857–1902), was a prosperous Gujarati merchant who came from the Paneli Moti a village in the state of Gondal situated in the Kathiawar region province of Gujarat (present day India). He had moved to Karachi from Kathiawar, because of his business partnership with Grams Trading Company whose regional office was set up in Karachi, then a part of the Bombay presidency. He moved to Karachi some time before Jinnahs birth.Jinnahs family belonged to the Ismaili Khoja branch of Shia Islam, though Jinnah later converted to Twelver Khoja Shia Islam. The first-born Jinnah was soon joined by six siblings: three brothers—Ahmad Ali, Bunde Ali, and Rahmat Ali—and three sisters: Mariam, Fatima and Shireen. Their mother tongue was Gujarati; in time they also came to speak Kutchi, Sindhi and English. The proper Muslim names of Mr. Jinnah and his siblings, unlike those of his father and grandfather, are the consequence of the familys migration to the predominantly Muslim state of Sindh. Jinnah was a restless student and studied at several schools: first at the Sindhi-Madras-tool-Islam in Karachi; then briefly at the Gokal Das Tej Primary School in Bombay; and finally at the Christian Missionary Society High School in Karachi, where, at the age of 16, he passed the matriculation examination of the University of Bombay. End chapter 2 Political struggle and achievements Jinnah first entered politics by participating in the 1906 Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress. He was the first governer general of Pakistan. Here, at the Calcutta Congress session (December 1906), he also made his first political speech in support of the resolution on self-government. On March 22-23, 1940, in Lahore, the league adopted a resolution to form a separate Muslim state, Pakistan. The Pakistan idea was first ridiculed and then tenaciously opposed by the Congress. But it captured the imagination of the Muslims. Pitted against Jinnah were men of the stature of Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. And the British government seemed to be intent on maintaining the political unity of the Indian subcontinent. But Jinnah led his movement with such skill and tenacity that ultimately both the Congress and the British government had no option but to agree to the partitioning of India. Pakistan thus emerged as an independent state in 14th August, 1947. End chapter 3
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