Posted on December 25, 2019
Today is the birthday of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who was Pakistan's first Governor General.
When Jinnah was born, on this date in 1876, India was still a part of the British Empire, and Pakistan didn't yet exist. Jinnah was Muslim, but British India was majority Hindu. Jinnah studied the law in Bombay and London and became a lawyer in Bombay. He joined the Muslim League and worked for the rights of Indian Muslims. He eventually became the president of the League.
For a long time, Jinnah worked toward Muslim-Hindu unity, but eventually he decided that the only way that Indian Muslims would have their full human rights was by partitioning India.
After British India was partitioned into two independent nations, India and Pakistan (at the time, Bangladesh was part of Pakistan), in 1947, Jinnah became the Governor-General of Pakistan. Unfortunately, he didn't live long; he died of tuberculosis on September 11, 1948.
This national holiday's name translates to "Great Leader Day."
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