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Embed from Getty Images Mr. Jinnah, the man widely credited with single-handedly creating a new country, has always remained a paradoxical ...

Published in DAWN on April 8, 1998  Embed from Getty Images This is with reference to Mr. Zaman Khan’s letter “Fundamental questions.” (...

Every year on Christmas Day we celebrate Jinnah's birthday, although no one can be sure that he was born on 25 December, or even in 1876...

I doubt if Imran Khan and his cronies have ever read the original Pakistan Resolution of 1940. The lie propagated by extremists that Pakista...

Embed from Getty Images I wonder if Jinnah really believed what he said that day on August 11, 1947 (three days before independence). He wa...

I don't think most Pakistanis know much about Jinnah. I've met people who think he was a Memon (in fact, most Pakistanis who live in...

Published in Daily Times on May 31, 2019  Embed from Getty Images The results of the recent elections in India prove that the so-called...

What happens to a people among whom inbreeding (cousin marriage) is common? After four or five generations, defects begin to appear. Sometim...

I grew up believing in Jinnah's Pakistan. I thought it would be the greatest country on earth. Jinnah's Pakistan was supposed to be ...

‘Defence pact’   Published in Dawn on September 9th, 2018 THIS is with reference to the letter ‘Quaid on Indo-Pak joint defence’ (Sept 6). A...

One popular misconception among Pakistanis (and many Indians, for that matter) is that Britain deliberately divided the subcontinent. Nothin...

Published in  the Express Tribune blogs on August 20, 2017 If Muhammad Ali Jinnah came back from the grave and saw the sorry state of ...

Published in The Express Tribune blog on July 21, 2017  They decided to demolish the mausoleum and use the land to make many high rise resid...

Published in The Express Tribune blogs on May 19, 2017 Rattanbai "Ruttie" Petit. Those of us who were born before Partition know ...

Published in The Express Tribune blogs o April 20, 2016  You wanted Pakistan to be a state where we would be free; free to go to our mosques...

Imran and Jinnah Published in Daily Times on October 14, 2014 Sir: With reference to the article “Imran Khan is no Jinnah” (Daily Times, Oct...

Published in Daily Times on July 5, 2014 Sir: This is with reference to the article “The houses that Jinnah built” (Daily Times, June 17, 20...

Published in The Express Tribune on March 21, 2013. KARACHI: This is with reference to the article “Jinnah’s Pakistan” by Yaqoob Khan Bangas...

Published in Dawn on July 2, 2009 According to a news item in DAWN (30th June), someone named Aslam Jinnah claiming to be Mr. Jinnah’s great...

Quaid’s great grandson Published in Dawn on June 20, 2006 THIS is with reference to the news item “Assassins of Quaid’s great grandson convi...