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Mr. Jinnah talking to Louis Fischer of Time magazine in 1945

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Mr. Jinnah with friends


originally uploaded by Doc Kazi.
I got this rare photgraph from Mahmood on Victoria Road. He could not identify the others although the man in the center resembles the Nawab of Jungadh. The British General is Douglas Gracey. Mr Jinnah seems in a relaxed mood ostensibly with his favorite 'Craven A' cigarettes, which finally got him.

Mr. Jinnah on a car ride with a Parsi friend

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M.A.H. Ispahani, Nizam of Hyderabad and M.A. Jinnah

A Nation is orphaned


Mr Jinnah's daughter and sisters mourn his death on his funeral
A nation is orphaned, originally uploaded by Doc Kazi.

Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah on the cover of Time Magazine in 1946

Jinnah with his sister Fatima and daughter Dina

Dina was born on 15 August 1919

Rutten Bai Petit around the time she married Jinnah in 1918

Born a Parsi, she converted to Islam on her 18th birthday and left her father's mansion with two pets only to marry Jinnah. Exactly eleven years later she was dead of an overdose of painkillers to treat her abdominal cancer. Jinnah never married again and died a lonely man. Known as the nightingale of Bombay, Ruttie died on her 29th birthday on 20 February 1929

Mr Jinnah as a Presidency Magistrate in Bombay

Gandhi and Jinnah - a study in contrasts

An extract from the book that riled India's Bharatiya Janata Party and led to the expulsion of its author Jaswant Singh, one of the foun...