Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the founder of Pakistan and its first Governor-General, known as Quaid-e-Azam (Great Leader). A London-trained barrister, he began his political career as a member of the Indian National Congress and advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity, but by the 1930s had come to lead the All-India Muslim League and champion the two-nation theory: that Hindus and Muslims constituted separate nations requiring separate states. His brilliant parliamentary and legal skills drove the negotiations that produced the partition of British India in August 1947. He died of tuberculosis just over a year after Pakistan’s independence.
- Lived: 1876 CE – 1948 CE
- Nationality: pakistani
- Roles: statesman, lawyer, founding_father
