Cruel Cut
Can you imagine living in a village which suddenly becomes two halves and each half is in a different country?
Partition Pain
Can you imagine that suddenly half of your family is Pakistani and half is Indian? These are just some of the consequences ordinary people faced in 1947. What a way to draw a border!
Wagah
That village is Wagah which hosts the border crossing with a big picture of Mr Jinnah on the Pakistan side and a big picture of Gandhi on the other side.
Lost Home
Imagine suddenly you are in hostile territory and while estimates vary, over 12 million people found themselves displaced - effectively homeless and forced to cross hostile territory to find a new abode.
Terrible Terror
The terrible violence that took place as people moved lock, stock and barrel produced an atmosphere of hostility and lack of trust that colors the relationship between India and Pakistan even today.
Hall of Admiration
Could this have been avoided? Would the more peaceful solution have been no partition? It is easy to look back with the benefit of hindsight and ponder but at that time Mr Jinnah felt that there was no other viable solution if Muslims were to have full dignity in a country. Mr Jinnah (Muhammad Ali Jinnah) is considered to be the person that insisted upon a homeland for Muslims.
Here is the modern take on Mr. Jinnah and what he means to those who are now the descendants of that great exodus.
Rizwan Shams
"Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Muhammad Ali Jinnah did all three! For any Pakistani these words are carved in pride." (American Biographer Stanley Wolpert (Biography Jinnah of Pakistan))
Remarkable Irony
As a leader of the Pakistan independence movement Muhammad Ali Jinnah is one of the most remarkable statesmen of the 20th century. Yet ironically he remains one of the least known figures of modern history, in the same way that his nation and people are often not understood in their full complexities.
Gandhi versus Jinnah
Almost everyone knows about Mahatma Gandhi and they quote his (Gandhi) quotes, bravery and leadership in everyday talks and speeches.
In Houston Texas, USA, the City of Houston named the business district after him as Mahatma Gandhi Business District. These are the great accomplishments and unity of the Indian community and that’s how they spread the name of Mahatma Gandhi all over the world in the hearts and minds of the people and that made him (Gandhi) a legend.
Kashif Yaseen
Mr Jinah is a great and brave leader of the world. <Mr. Jinnah is also known as Quaid-e-Azam meaning Great Leader>. Quaid-e-Azam is a great history of Islam. I have met with Quaid's security guard Raja Yaqob. He was my grandfather's friend. He said Quaid was a nice and brave person. He was very hardworking.
Asima Sadia
Mr. Jinnah was a great leader having strong passion and determination for the Muslims to have their rights by having an independent homeland, so that they may lead their lives independently and with free will. His passion, determination and positive focus finally brought forward the desired results; a great personality in all aspects that can be followed; a man of ethics and principles with positive focus and determination to achieve his goal.
Mushtaq Hussain
He was a great human, lawyer, leader, bold and brave. He led a Muslim minority to give them their rights.
Work, work, work was his slogan.
Raashid Wali Janjua
He was a very practical and ethically minded person with an incisive intellect. A self-made man who created a niche in Indian politics through hard work and sedulous advocacy of the political and economic rights of oppressed Indians from all religions.
He parted ways from Congress (the Indian political party) having despaired of its policies about Muslim political rights.
He loved, participated in politics, entered law practice and led the Muslims with a principle-based passion.
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