Quaid-e-Azam's last public appearance on 1 July 1948 at the opening of the State Bank of Pakistan

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"You might lose the whole of Pakistan" - Mountbatten yelled at Jinnah

Despite Mountbatten's insistence to be Governor General of both India and Pakistan, Mr Jinnah refused him the honour in Pakistan. Earlier the earl asked him, Do you know what this might cost him. Jinnah replied a few thousand square miles. Mountbatten went red in the face and replied You might lose the whole of Pakistan! True to his word he took every step to strangle Pakistan in its infancy. He fell victim to a IRA bomb while yachting with his family in 1979. Here both the Governors General are seen in the constitutent assembly of Pakistan in Karachi on 14 August 1947 and their body language says it all!
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Mr. Jinnah with Lord Pethick Lawrence and Mr A V Alexander

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The Cabinet Mission came to India in 1946 but could not achieve a consensus and failed miserably. Its chief quickly acquired the name Lord 'Pathetic' Lawrence

The 3rd June Plan - Nehru, Mountbatten and Jinnah

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On 3 June 1947 all the Indian leaders got together and put their seal on the Partition Plan. Seated by the map on the wall is Lord Ismay, Mountbatten's Chief of Staff who probably tampered with the Radcliffe Award and gave Gurdaspur to India to keep the two new countries in a perpetual state of war over Kashmir till eternity!

Quaid-e-Azam meeting supporters at Quetta Railway Station in 1945

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Perhaps the first 'Train March' in our history