Mohammad Ali Jinnah was born on December 25th, 1876 in Karachi. He came from a family of Gujarati Khoja Muslims. His father was a small businessman, but he managed to go to England to study and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. By the turn of the century he was a successful lawyer and built a lucrative practice in Bombay. An early member of the Congress Party and "Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity," he later parted ways with Gandhi and Nehru and worked for independent homeland for the Muslims of British India.

Quaid-e-Azam reading a respected English Pakistani News Paper "DAWN".

Mohammad Ali Jinnah served as President of the All-India Muslim League from 1934 onwards. At midnight between August 14th and 15th, 1947 he led Pakistan into simultaneous freedom with India from the British Empire. Pakistan then included an eastern half which became the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1971. In Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah is known as "Quaid-i-Azam," or Father of the Nation. He served as the nation's first Governor-General until he died in September, 1948.

On August 15th, 1947 he addressed a country a few hours old over the radio from Lahore: