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Dr. Ajeet Jawed in her book Secular and Nationalist, states…….


Jinnah who ate pork, drank scotch, seldom entered a mosque was ignorant of Islamic teachings, did not observe Islamic rituals, could not speak Urdu, wore high-class Western suits and had come from a Hindu Bhatia family, was christened Quaid-I-Azam by the Muslim Maulvis, writes Dr. Jawed in the chapter Tragedy of Jinnah in her book.

“I still consider myself to be an Indian. For the moment I have accepted the Governor-Generalship of Pakistan. But I am looking forward to a time when I would return to India and take my place as citizen of my country.” M.S.M.Sharma, Peeps into Pakistan, p.185.

M.S.M.Sharma was the editor of Daily Gazette of Karachi.

“I never wanted this damn Pakistan! It was forced upon me by Sardar Patel. And now they want me to eat the humble pie and raise my hands in defeat.” Hashoo Kewal Ramani, Pakistan X-rayed, Delhi, New Age, 1951, p.111.

While inaugurating the first session of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly on August 11, 1947, he firmly declared:

“You are free; you are free to go to your temples , you are free to go to your mosques or any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with the fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one state…Now I think, we should keep that in front of us as our ideal and you will find that in course of time, Hindus would cease to be Hindus, and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religions sense, because , that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense of the citizens of the state.” Jyoti Sen Gupta’s Eclipse of Pakistan, p.54

For Jinnah, Pakistan was a bargaining counter to settle his personal accounts with the Congress and to humble its leaders who had questioned even his representative character and had tried to finish him politically.

Mahommedali Currim Chagla (M.C.Chagla), a renowned Indian jurist, diplomat, and Cabinet Minister who served as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court from 1948 to 1958, was influenced by Jinnah’s robust patriotism and secularism. He under Jinnah’s guidance worked for strengthening the nationalist and progressive elements in the All India Muslim League.

“Even leaders like Subhash Chandra Bose had great regard for him and often sought his advice on political matters,” M.C. Chagla, Roses in June, December, p.42

Jinnah also stated that he bore “no malice to anyone despite political differences.”

He once stated: I went to the chambers of Sir George Lowndes as a penniless man. He was to me like a father and treated me like a son. When he was in the Imperial Legislative Council as the Law Member to the Government of India, I bitterly opposed him. Withal, we have maintained our friendship unbroken till this day.”

He added: “Pt. Moti Lal and I used to fight like a pair of wildcats on the floor of Legislative Assembly yet on the same evening of our altercation he used to dine sumptuously with my wife at my cost.” Ibid

Ibid /means the source quoted is the same as the source just quoted in the previous example