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Muhammad Ali Jinnah: The Dying Man Who Founded Pakistan With Six Years Left to Live
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah created Pakistan — the world's first nation founded explicitly as a homeland for Muslims — while dying of tuberculosis he kept secret from everyone, including his doctors. He negotiated the partition of British India, became Pakistan's first governor-general, and died thirteen months after independence, leaving a nation without the one leader who might have held it together through its chaotic infancy.
This episode traces Jinnah from his Karachi merchant family through his career as a secular lawyer, the transformation into the champion of Muslim separatism, the partition negotiations, and the death that left Pakistan orphaned at birth.
- Jinnah's secular, Westernized legal career and his early opposition to Hindu-Muslim separation
- The transformation from Indian nationalist to Muslim League leader demand ...