Dawn: All sorts of ironies are often pointed out about what happened to Pakistan after the early demise of its founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
Shamim Ahmed in his article, “A Leaf from Jinnah’s Life” (Dawn, 1948), described Jinnah to be a supremely confident man who, before leaving for England to study Law, told his first cousin Fatima Ganji Vaji, “I will return a great man…”
Though he had first arrived in England to study business, he switched to law, leaving his father fuming.
On his return to India in 1896, the then 20-year-old Jinnah started to practice law in Bombay. He consciously began to cultivate an image of being a highly rational man who valued veracity and integrity.
Shamim Ahmed wrote that these traits that Jinnah proudly exhibited were initially informed by his admiration for late 19th century British Liberalism that he encountered in England; but they not only remained an important part of Jinnah’s make-up for the rest of his life, they actually became stronger with age.
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