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What Jinnah Really Wanted
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A new book sheds further light on the intentions of Pakistan’s founder for the future of the country
Naazir Mahmood, writing in
Politics, Pictures, Personalities, notes that on Independence Day, 1947, the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, appeared to favor Deobandi scholars by inviting Maulana Zafar Ahmad Usmani and Shabbir Ahmad Usmani to hoist the post-Independence ceremonial national flag at Karachi and Dhaka. The two belonged to the Deobandi movement in India, which was allied to the Congress, and had not supported the formation of Pakistan. By choosing them for the flag-hoisting, Jinnah sought to signal a post-Independence truce to his rivals.