BIOGRAPHY ON QUAID-E-AZAM
1)Quaid-e-Azam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah was born on 25th December 1876 at Vazeer Mansion Karachi.
2)Jinnah was sent to the Sindh Madrasah High School in 1887.
3)He passed the matriculation examination of the University of Bombay.
4)Jinnah went to England.Jinnah, however, had made up his mind to become a barrister.
5)His parents arranged for an early marriage for him before he left for England.
6)While in London Jinnah suffered two severe bereavements--the deaths of his wife and his mother.
7)He was greatly influenced by the liberalism of William E. Gladstone, who had become prime minister for the fourth time in 1892, the year of Jinnah's arrival in London.
8)When Jinnah returned to Karachi in 1896,He decided to start his legal practice in Bombay, but it took him years of work to establish himself as a lawyer.
9)Jinnah first entered politics by participating in the 1906 Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress.
10)Four years later he was elected to the Imperial Legislative Council--the beginning of a long and distinguished parliamentary career.11)Jinnah aspired during the early part of his political life to become "a Muslim Gokhale."
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, addressing a procession on 23rd March, 1940 :
1)At this point, Jinnah emerged as the leader of a renascent Muslim nation.2)On March 22 -23, 1940, in Lahore, the league adopted a resolution to form a separate Muslim state, Pakistan.
3)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.
4)That ultimately both the Congress and the British government had no option but to agree to the partitioning of India.
5)Pakistan thus emerged as an independent state in 14th August, 1947.
6)Jinnah became the first head of the new state i.e. Pakistan. He took oath as the first governor general on August 15, 1947.
7)He was not regarded as merely the governor-general; he was revered as the father of the nation.8)He worked hard until overpowered by age and disease in Karachi. He died on 11th September, 1948 at Karachi.