Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in animated conversation

Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in animated conversation with a group of students on the lawns of the University of Punjab, Lahore.

Students, particularly from Punjab, play a pivotal role in achieving a remarkable victory for the Muslim League in the 1945 general elections.

Visit our special 1947 feature commemorating 70 years of Pakistan: https://www.dawn.com/news/1338270/Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in animated conversation with a group of students on the lawns of the University of Punjab, Lahore.Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in animated conversation with a group of students on the lawns of the University of Punjab, Lahore.




It is estimated that over 15 million people were displaced during the Partition of the Indian subcontinent and two million lost their lives in the ensuing communal violence.

This feature covers 42 years from 1906 to 1948, an astonishingly short period of time, during which the freedom movement emerged and subsequently achieved the creation of a separate Muslim state under the dynamic leadership of Mohammad Ali Jinnah - the Quaid-i-Azam - the monumental founder of this nation.

As the nation marks its 70th year, Pakistan’s story becomes your story.