National
December 25, 2020
American historian Stanley Wolpert in his book “Jinnah of Pakistan” while commending the services of the Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah wrote: “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. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.”
Not only Stanley Wolpert but many veteran writers, historians, scholars of international repute have acknowledged the towering personality of the founder of Pakistan Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who emerged as the heroic personality for the Muslim Ummah in the 20th century.
In the initial years of Pakistan, no effort was made to archive partition history or do some research on the personality of the Quaid, though it was easier at that time when many of the stalwarts of Pakistan movement who worked with him were alive and could have contributed towards penning down the historical account of Pakistan Movement. Termed as “one of the greatest migrations in human history,” which led to the migration of millions of Muslims to West and East Pakistan (the latter became Bangladesh) and millions of Hindus and Sikhs to India, Pakistan movement cannot be explained without Quaid-i-Azam’s role in it.