Jinnah,
Muhammad Ali Founder of Pakistan, he was born in Karachi,
studied law
and set up a roar- ing practice in Bombay. He joined Indian
politics as
a follower of moderate Congress leaders like Dadabhai Naoroji
and G K.
Gokhale, and became a member of the Central Legislative Council
in 1910.
But soon he joined the Muslim League (1913) and became its
president
in 1916 (Lucknow Session). After the ascendancy of Gandhiji in
the
national pol-itics, he completely broke away from the Congress and
started
reorganising the League and demanding the partition of India on a
religious
basis (1940). Known as the ‘Qaid-i-Azam’ (Great Leader), he
became the
First Governor General of Independent Pakistan.
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