Quaid-e-Azam Jinnah
Author: Ishraq
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1940
One by one, countries are gaining independence.
Colonial empires are collapsing.
The Caliphate has fallen. Everywhere, independent states are emerging.
A new chapter has begun in world history.
Arab nationalism, Turkish nationalismâamid these waves of nationalism, Muslims too are feeling a new awakening.
Only Indian Muslims are not well. Many of them donât even realize it. They donât understand the danger ahead.
The British will leave Indiaâthis is inevitable. Whether today or tomorrow, they must leave.
But after the British leave, what will happen to Indian Muslims?
Very few Muslims deeply reflected on this question. But one man didâChoudhury Rahmat Ali.
A Cambridge student, Rahmat Ali, out of despair, wrote:
âNow or Never: Are We to Live or Perish Forever?â
Muslims ruled Hindustan for 600 years. What would be their future there? Power would no longer be in Muslim handsâbut would they even survive with dignity?
He proposed, out of desperation, a fantasy: Pakistanâa separate state for Muslims.
Pakistan was just a fantasy. No one took it seriously. What even is Pakistan? What kind of idea is that?
Was it an Islamic state? Even the theory of an Islamic state wasnât fully developed then. Why would Muslims need a separate state? No such state existed elsewhere in the world.
And who would even create Pakistan? Muslims lacked unity and leadership.
Even when A.K. Fazlul Huq proposed separate states for Muslim-majority regions in Lahore, no one believed it was practical.
Meanwhile, the Congress had a century-long anti-colonial struggle, global recognition, mass support, organizational strength, and governance experience.
What did Muslims have?
Some believed politics was haram.
Others believed Indiaâs independence was enough for Muslims.
Some argued only an Islamic state mattered, not a âMuslim state.â
Regional divisions existedâPunjabi landlords, Bengali regional politics, Pashtun Gandhians.
And there was the Muslim League.
In 1937 elections, out of 482 Muslim seats, the Muslim League won only 109.
80% of Muslims rejected them.
They had no international support, no funding, no intellectual backing, no administrative experience.
Even Muslims themselves didnât support them.
Pakistan was just a fantasyâlike students dreaming of communism in a university campus.
The world would celebrate decolonization. Muslims would become subordinate to Hindus. That seemed inevitable.
Yet, minority Muslimsâin Bihar, Bombay, UP, Madrasâresponded to the call for Pakistan.
Without ideology, aesthetics, or charismatic leadership, the dream of a Muslim homeland began.
A British-trained lawyerâseen by many as elitist, even controversialâstarted an unbelievable journey with a scattered group of supporters.
Even he likely didnât believe the fantasy would become reality.
At first, Pakistan was just a bargaining chipâfor autonomy in Muslim-majority provinces.
Negotiations began like a marketplace bargain.
But Nehru refused even minimal guarantees of autonomy.
At that point, the idea of Pakistan became serious.
In the 1946 elections, the Muslim League achieved a landslide victory and became the sole representative of Muslims.
Still, they lacked global support, resources, and influence.
Time was running out. The British wanted a quick resolution.
Facing urgency, the leadership called for Direct Action.
Violence erupted, showing that ignoring Muslim demands could lead to civil war.
Gradually, the âfantasyâ began turning into reality.
Partition discussions started. Independence was not just for Hindusâit was also for Muslims.
Debates emerged about minorities left behind.
But there was no time. The British were leaving.
Pakistan became like a âspaceshipââa desperate escape for survival.
Whether it would survive or not didnât matterâsurvival itself was the goal.
Territories were negotiated. Many key regions were lost.
What remained was a fragile, resource-limited state.
Yet, against all odds, Pakistan was created in 1947.
No strong organization, no wealth, no armyâyet a homeland emerged.
The lawyer negotiated like a man holding bad cards but betting as if he owned the deck.
From 20% support in 1937 to creating a country in 1947.
He may be the only man who bullied an empire, outmaneuvered Congress, and won a country without an army or mass movement.
Congress had power. The British had the army.
He had only determination and strategy.
He asked for the moon, settled for a moth-eaten sky, and still changed the map of the world.
Nehru accepted.
Patel accepted.
Gandhi accepted.
They believed the new state wouldnât survive.
But they were wrong.
The âspaceshipâ fractured, struggledâbut survived.
Even with limitations, it endured.
The man behind it passed away soon after.
Debates continued over what could have been achieved.
But he had already done the impossibleâturned a fantasy into a country.
He entered as an underdog and left with a nation.
Gandhi moved hearts. Nehru moved crowds. Jinnah moved borders.
Felani Didn't Die!
According to Bangladesh's own Home Minister, her death was not a "border killing by BSF" â it was simply the lawful outcome of illegal trespassing on Indian soil.
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Minister Salahuddin Ahmed's exact words (2 June 2026):
"If any foreign force kills someone by entering our border or at the zero line, then it can be called border killing. But if someone commits illegal trespassingâĻ they will address the issue as per their own local laws. In such cases, it should not be called border killing." [1]
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This is the exact same framing used by Awami League's Indian pets to justify BSF murders and atrocities on the India-Bangladesh border:
âĒ Syed Ashraful Islam (LGRD Minister & AL General Secretary, 21 Jan 2012):
"Many such incidentsâĻ cattle lifting, drug smugglingâĻ This is nothing new. The state is not too much concerned about it." [2]
âĒ Dr A.K. Abdul Momen (AL Foreign Minister, 19 Dec 2020):
"Many Bangladeshis crossed the international border with criminal intentions, resulting in fatalities, with many of them far inside the Indian territory." [3]
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Now, only 3 months+ into "this BNP" government, their Home Minister Mr. Salahuddin Ahmed is playing the same old Indian record â word for word.
Same excuse. Same whitewash. Different government.
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Felani (15) and her father were crossing from India into Bangladesh without documents. She climbed a bamboo ladder onto the Indian fence at Anantapur, Phulbari, Kurigram. Her clothes got entangled on the Indian side. BSF shot her there. Her body hung on Indian soil for hours.
(Documented in photos, eyewitness accounts and official records.) [4]
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By Salahuddin's own definition: Felani was not murdered by any foreign force entering Bangladesh. Her death was perfectly OK â routine enforcement inside Indian territory.
Felani's blood is still on that fence. But Dhaka now says: it was never a crime.
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You know what? Felani was neither murdered nor killed. Then what happened to Felani?
Nothing. Felani didn't die!
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#FelaniDidNotDie #BSFKillings #BoycottSalahuddin
#ShameOnBNP #IndianDalalOut #JusticeForFelani
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