Jinnah Born: Founder of Pakistan and Its Only Leader
Muhammad Ali Jinnah transformed from a secular constitutionalist into the driving force behind the partition of British India, arguing that Hindus and Muslims constituted two separate nations. His relentless political campaign created Pakistan in 1947, making him the Quaid-e-Azam—Great Leader—of a new state he governed for only a year before dying of tuberculosis.
December 25, 1876
150 years ago
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