Nisid Hajari on Jinnah
From the Blog pakteahouse By Yasser Latif Hamdani In a review of Nisid Hajari’s book “Midnight furies” in the Economist called “Searing Split“, a reviewer had this to say: In particular he focuses, as do most histories of partition, on the troubling character of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding leader of Pakistan. Mr Hajari has little sympathy for Jinnah, a bitter and uncompromising man, calling him the “most polarising figure in the Partition drama”. Jinnah, more than anyone, was responsible for the creation of Pakistan, yet it remains unclear how much he really wanted it or whether he pursued the idea more as a tactic to increase Muslim clout within a larger India. Mr Hajari judges him to have been “criminally negligent” in his thinking about the human consequences of his demand for Pakistan, capakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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