My earliest memory of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's Quaid-i-Azam , or Great Leader, is from my childhood. The electricity had gone because of load shedding, and I was doing my homework despite my grandmother's insistence that this was bad for my eyes. My textbook was part of the curriculum assigned to all primary-school students in Pakistan, and it described Jinnah as a young boy, himself reading a book by candlelight at his home in Karachi, a hundred years earlier. I had heard of Jinnah before, of course; his name was ubiquitous in Pakistan, a country otherwise unsure of its heroes. But it...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
