Ans: Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad All Jinnah (1876-1946), the founder of Pakistan
came to the concept of world Muslim unity via the concept of the unity of
Indians and the concept of the unity of the Muslims in the Subcontinent.
process, a political leader, in the course of his career, often tends to
graduate or shift, as the case may be, from one stance to another. In the first
. This, however, should not be too surprising. Politics being an evolutionary
phase of his political career which was coterminous with the period of his
close association with the Indian National Congress (1906-20).
. Jinnah had stood out as one of the champions of Indian freedom and of one
united Indian nation comprising all the communities including the two major
ones-namely, the Hindus and Muslims. In particular, during this phase and
the next which ended in 1937, marking the beginning of his open, marathon
confrontation with the Congress, he worked for Hindu-Muslim unity which he
considered the condition of Indian freedom.