So What Gives?

Yeah and 5 rivers of Punjab became Red as Sikhs weer children playing with toys in 1947 !

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[Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three. Hailed as 'Great Leader' (Quaid-I-Azam) of Pakistan and its first governor general, Jinnah virtually conjured that country into statehood by the force of his indomitable will. His place of primacy in Pakistan's history looms like a lofty minaret over the achievements of all his contemporaries in the Muslim League. Yet Jinnah began his political career as a leader of India's National Congress and until after World War I remained India's best Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity. As enigmatic a figure as Mahatma Gandhi, more powerful than Pandit Nehru, Quaid-I-Azam Jinnah was one of recent history's most charismatic leaders and least known personalities. For more than a quarter century, I have been intrigued by the apparent paradox of Jinnah's strange story, which has to date been told in all the fascinating complexity of is brilliant light and tragic darkness.
(Stanley wolpert , UC Los Angeles)]

Stanley Wolpert is wrong!

Look up the man who founded Outer Mongolia (now, the Mongolian Republic). He got the country independence from China in 1924.

Your all-weather friends the Chinese make claims over Tibet and Taiwan but don't say boo about Mongolia.

The Chinese Republic in 1924 was not a genteel nation like the British in 1947 who walked away from India without shooting anybody.

The shooting and killing was done by Mohammad Ali "Today, we have unleashed the pistol" Jinnah.

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three. Hailed as 'Great Leader' (Quaid-I-Azam) of Pakistan and its first governor general, Jinnah virtually conjured that country into statehood by the force of his indomitable will. His place of primacy in Pakistan's history looms like a lofty minaret over the achievements of all his contemporaries in the Muslim League. Yet Jinnah began his political career as a leader of India's National Congress and until after World War I remained India's best Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity. As enigmatic a figure as Mahatma Gandhi, more powerful than Pandit Nehru, Quaid-I-Azam Jinnah was one of recent history's most charismatic leaders and least known personalities. For more than a quarter century, I have been intrigued by the apparent paradox of Jinnah's strange story, which has to date been told in all the fascinating complexity of is brilliant light and tragic darkness.
(Stanley wolpert , UC Los Angeles)






The Aga Khan considered him "the greatest man he ever met", Beverley Nichols, the author of `Verdict on India', called him "the most important man in Asia", and Dr. Kailashnath Katju, the West Bengal Governor in 1948, thought of him as "an outstanding figure of this century not only in India, but in the whole world". While Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, called him "one of the greatest leaders in the Muslim world", the Grand Mufti of Palestine considered his death as a "great loss" to the entire world of Islam. It was, however, given to Surat Chandra Bose, leader of the Forward Bloc wing of the Indian National Congress, to sum up succinctly his personal and political achievements. "Mr Jinnah", he said on his death in 1948, "was great as a lawyer, once great as a Congressman, great as a leader of Muslims, great as a world politician and diplomat, and greatest of all as a man of action, By Mr. Jinnah's passing away, the world has lost one of the greatest statesmen and Pakistan its life-giver, philosopher and guide". Such was Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the man and his mission, such the range of his accomplishments and achievement



We did not want to divie India but History took all of us at that point where Partition of India was dependent on the movement of head of ONLY 1 man. If he had moved his head in Nay , Nobody would have dared to divide India.But he nodded his head in Yes position.His name was Jinnah !
(Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten in 1974)

Raj Shastri ji - Do you write articles based on your dreams?

You forgot about the biggest factor that decides who leads BJP - RSS. Jaswant Singh does not share a good relationship with RSS so he can never lead the BJP to become the PM. Far from it, he would never even be re-admitted into the party ever again.