well guys once again it’s august and we can all feel the spirit of patriotism returning full bloom after a year of hibernation. that it will get back to long sleep after 14 Aug and will like always remain limited only to words and not actioon is nothing unusual for us confused people.
however while we are at celebrating the spirit of Pakistan and celebrating our nation’s 57th birthday we refresh our memories of all things associated with freedom, the freedom struggle, the leaders, the ideologies and above all the one man who we all owe more than our lives; the man who gve us an identity, who saved u from being suppressed and treated as second class citizen in Hindustan. Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the father of the nation. We talk about him all the time yet we know very little about him. there have been countless controversies regarding his personality, habits, character etc and most of us never get down to reading good books about him. some authors conceal facts, some distort them. So far Prof Stanley Wolpert’s biography seems to be the best.
while i was away from GS for a while i recvd a PM from 5Abi telling me about the independence day celebrations being organized here and he asked me for my share of contris. i wanted to do much much more, but ran a bit late, still i want to start off with this thread, the purpose of which is to refresh the memory of Mr. Jinnah, an extra ordinary man and to share knowledge about him, his personal life, his habits, his principles, his character, his way of living; the kind of stuff we are never told, the stuff that is perhap not important enough to be includeed in his political biographies, the stuff only his close associates kneww and the stuff that now remains only in the thousnads of aarticles and hundreds of books that have been written on him. no one has the time or energy to dig out all that material and read it, thouggh we may want to with all our hearts we never get the time to thanks to the supesonic lifestyles of the 21st century. However I’m sure we all mut have read somethings, or heard something fromm someone, on tv or in person about the Quaid. So lets share our little knowledge of the man, the little thing that made him great! i’ll start off sharing some things i have heard about himm to set the direction.
hope it doesnt turn out to be a boring thread and the response is as enthusiastic as i am about it. Thanks!
Ive heard that QuaideAzam was such strong about his principles thatt once while travelling by train to some city from bombay while he was not a very active politiician, was unable to find his ticket in his coat poocket where he had placed it, when tthe checker inquired. the checker thought he wwas just another free rider and in his uusual way aked him to ppay him half the amount of the ticket as bribe and all would be well.otherwise tthe quaid was liable to pay the price of the ticket and addiitiional fine for geetting on the train wiithoout a tikcket. tthe great man refused the economical offer and purchaed anotther tiicket andd paid tthe fine aswell.
Another story stating volumes aboout his strong character was also portrayed in the movie Jinnah.
At the height of the freedom struggle when Gandhii, Nehru and the English were ready to crush the muslim struggle and Jinnah for any price at all, some workers of the AIML got hold of some peronal letters wriitten between Edwiina Mounttbatten and Nehru. the letters included intimate details of their romantic associattiion whiich the world found out much later. Jinnah could have used it to shatter Nehru's image and popuularity for politiccal gain desperately needed, but ouutriight refused to doo any such thing and said it was immoral, unprofesional and agaiintt his principles.
...have you actually misspelled plenty of simple words and overuse of double letters in almost every word or is it just another COOL typing style that I am not aware of?
another story ive heard is that once a poor man was caught up iin a property dispute, he was sent to Mr. Jinnah, a lawyer who almost always won any case he put his hands on. Mr Jinnah told the man that his hourly charges were high and unaffordable for him, but the man insisted and promised he'd pay and gave some fee in advance. Jinnah took charge of the case and eventually won, in time even les than perceived summing up to his fee that was even less than the advance deposited by the man. Mr. Jinnah paid him back the amount that was in excess of his regular charges.
