Rare Collection of Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Images

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (December 25, 1876 – September 11, 1948), a 20th century politician and statesman, is regarded as the founder of Pakistan. He served as leader of The Muslim League and Pakistan's first Governor-General. He is officially known in Pakistan as Quaid-i-Azam ("Great Leader") and Baba-e-Qaum ("Father of the Nation"). His birthday is a national holiday in Pakistan. Jinnah rose to prominence in the Indian National Congress initially expounding ideas of Hindu-Muslim unity and helping shape the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress; he also became a key leader in the All India Home Rule League. He proposed a fourteen-point constitutional reform plan to safeguard the political rights of Muslims in a self-governing India.





Jinnah, advocating the Two-Nation Theory, embraced the goal of creating a separate state for Muslims as per the Lahore Resolution. The League won most reserved Muslim seats in the elections of 1946. After the British and Congress backed out of the Cabinet Mission Plan Jinnah called for a Direct Action Day to achieve the formation of Pakistan. The direct action by the Muslim League and its Volunteer Corps, resulted in massive rioting in Calcutta between Muslims and Hindus/Sikhs. As the Indian National Congress and Muslim League failed to reach a power sharing formula for united India, it prompted both the parties and the British to agree to independence of Pakistan and India. As the first Governor-General of Pakistan, Jinnah led efforts to rehabilitate millions of refugees, and to frame national policies on foreign affairs, security and economic development. He died a year after Pakistan's formation in September 1948.





A Classic Image of Brother (Ali Jinnah) and Sister (Fatima)



A rare snapshot of Quaid's uninhibited laughter



As a young magistrate in Bombay





Jinnah with Liaquat Ali, Z A Suleri, Altaf Hussain and K H Khurshid, outside a London mosque in 1946.



Jinnah and Miss Jinnah with Fatima Begum, Geti Ara and Begum G A Khan



Jinnah Founder with A K Fazlul Haq



Jinnah with Muslim ladies in Hyderabad Deccan, 1938



Jinnah at PAF Risalpur



Muhammed Ali Jinnah with Mahatma Gandhi



Muhammed Ali Jinnah with Mahatma Gandhi



Mr Jinnah with Field Marshal Auchinleck and Admiral Jefford



Mr Jinnah with the Muslim League Women's Guard



Mr Jinnah's first and last birthday in Pakistan - 25 December 1947



Nawab Mamdot welcoming the Founder, Lahore March 1940



Portrait by Shaikh Ahmed - the only painter for whom Jinnah sat



Quaid visiting PAF base Risalpur1 1947



Quaid visiting PAF base Risalpur1 1947



Quaid with Ayub Khan



Quaid-e-Azam with Dr Annie Bezant



Subhas Chandra Bose with Mr Jinnah



Younger Mr Jinnah & Fatima with friends in Bombay



The Founder addresses the Muslim League Session, Allahabad 1942



The Founder listening to Law Minister Joginder Nath Mandal



The Founder relaxing in Kashmir



The Founder with Maulana Zafar Ali Khan in Badshahi Mosque



The Founder with the Khan of Kalat



Jinnah's First Arrival to Pakistan





Addressing as first Governor General of Pakistan



Mount Betan and Quaid Muhammad Ali Jinnah

China says sale of arms to Pakistan is not a big Deal

China is defending its warships submarines sale to Pakistan. Chinese Officials has said that when India is getting the military equipment support from Russia, US and Israel then what is wrong in providing military equipment to Pakistan.

Indian are as usual showing concerns on these Pak China military cooperation while it is seeking equipments from three big countries.So India must watch towards its own Face before pointing fingers at others. China is a true friend of Pakistan which is providing Pakistan with complete help in field of Defense and many other fields as well.

Celebrating the Quaid Azam day 25 December

Quaid Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was born on 25 December 1876. Mohammad Ali Jinnah with qualities of his leadership fought to get the independence from British and Hindus to make a separate state for Muslims of Sub-continent where they can live with freedom.

Mohammad Ali Jinnah said:
Pakistan means not just freedom and the independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which we hope other will share with us. Pakistan is proud of her youth, particularly the students, who are nation builders of tomorrow. They must fully equip themselves by discipline, education, and training for the arduous task lying ahead of them.

Janoon se aur Ishq se milti hai Azadi


Anti Pakistan and anti Muslim party Bjp's leader Jaswant Singh words for Quaid Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Accused Virginia hostage taker had criminal past

WYTHEVILLE, Va. – As the hours of a post office standoff wore on, Warren "Gator" Taylor slowly opened up to the three people he's accused of holding hostage.

The gunman told them he had been in the Marines for 20 years, proud to talk about his military experiences. He said his life the last few years had headed south, that his son had been killed in Afghanistan and that his truck was being repossessed. He railed against the federal government.

"He was really down on the government," said Jimmy Oliver, 41, one of the hostages, who spoke with The Associated Press Thursday, a day after the ordeal in Wytheville. "About the government taking over the right to bear arms ... he was angry at the government overtaxing us."

Whether Taylor served those decades in the Marines is uncertain, with military officials not immediately able to locate any records on him. The Associated Press could not corroborate whether his son was killed.

What is certain is that Taylor had a criminal record that includes convictions in Manatee County, Florida, in 1994 on two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior with a child under 16 and a count of attempted second-degree murder. The 53-year-old is a registered as a sex offender in Florida and in Sullivan County, Tenn., where he was living before the post office attack.

On Thursday, Taylor was arraigned on kidnapping and other federal charges in the standoff. The hostages were released unharmed after about eight hours and Taylor surrendered without incident.

During the hearing in U.S. District Court in Roanoke, Taylor apologized.

"I'm sorry I got everybody out on Christmas," said Taylor, who sat in his wheelchair wearing blue jeans and a black T-shirt. A judge ordered him to have a mental evaluation.

A woman who answered the door at Taylor's trailer in the Beverly Hills Mobile Home Park in Bristol, Tenn., said she was his girlfriend and they spent a lot of time talking about the Bible and religion.

"This is totally out of character for the person I know," said the woman, who identified herself as Barbara but would not give her last name. She said they met when he moved to the trailer park eight months ago.

Taylor was released in December 1998 from a Florida prison after serving four years for shooting his ex-wife. The St. Petersburg Times reported in 1993 that Taylor shot Karen Taylor three times with a handgun when she was walking through a parking lot on her way to work.

At the time, Taylor was wanted on the lewd and lascivious behavior charges from a 1991 case involving a 13-year-old.

More than a decade later, Taylor again is behind bars after the post office attack that U.S Postal Inspector J. David McKinney said Taylor had planned for months or years.

Taylor had no apparent connection to picturesque Wytheville, a community of 8,500 in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Officials say he pulled off the interstate to buy gas and food and decided the post office would be the place to carry out his plans.

Oliver, a divorced father of two, was at the post office to mail Christmas gifts to his teenage son when he noticed a heavyset man using his wheelchair like a walker to brace himself.

He saw the man put an olive drab square ammunition can on the counter, then pull out a .40-caliber Glock pistol. Customers scattered, and the man fired a single shot at the postmaster as he fled.

The man stuck one of his four guns in Oliver's face and told him to get on the floor, where he laid next to an older man while the gunman grabbed Margie Austin, a postal supervisor.

As the night dragged on and negotiations continued, the gunman allowed the hostages to call their families

Finally, the tired gunman turned to his hostages and told them, "It's over." He unloaded three of his four guns and waited with the hostages until police ordered them out of the building an hour later. The three hostages came out, one at a time, followed by Taylor in his wheelchair.

Oliver, who said he had served 18 years in the military, mostly with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, thought about his children and family and tried to stay calm.

Austin did the same, even as the gunman at one point grabbed her and used her as a human shield as he fired at police outside.

"I just wanted us to get out alive," Austin said. "There were times I didn't know whether that would happen."

Obamas aloha low-key holiday away from Washington

HONOLULU – White House aides said not to expect much from President Barack Obama's holiday in Hawaii. They've said this before.

White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday that the president wants to spend his holiday in his birthplace away from the news-of-the-moment distractions that have dominated his first year in office. No public events were scheduled and the best any of the president's aides could promise would be bets whether lefty Obama would out-drive his good friends — joining him from Chicago — on the golf course.

Then again, this is a refrain that preceded the Obamas' summer vacation on Massachusetts' Martha's Vineyard that saw the renomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the death of Senate lion Edward M. Kennedy.

"I asked the president if he had any special message for you guys," Burton told reporters aboard the presidential aircraft during the nine-hour flight from Andrews Air Force Base near Washington to Hawaii. "He would like for you to relax and to not anticipate any public announcements or news-making events."

Reporters laughed. It was almost the exact phrase Burton uttered on the way to the Obamas' summer vacation; the touch wasn't lost on the deputy press secretary as the entire White House apparatus headed toward Christmas Day on Oahu.

The president, a first-year chief executive who has inherited — and tackled — an economic crisis worse than anything the United States has experienced in decades, doesn't really get vacation amid two wars. Even his departure was delayed because his top advisers wanted him in Washington to witness — or baby-sit, depending on the official — the U.S. Senate pass its piece of a massive government overhaul of health care coverage.

Much in the final legislation remains to be decided, but his top advisers — and the president himself, later — decided it best not to chance an on-time departure to his vacation.

You know, just in case.

"He's been involved throughout this process working with members of the House and the Senate; White House staff has been working with their staffs, and you can imagine we're going to continue to work with those folks as we go forward to ensure that we get this historic health care reform done for the American people," Burton told reporters in what he said he hoped would be the final White House briefing — at 32,000 feet — of the year.

But while Burton suggested there wouldn't be news during the next week or so — the White House won't detail when the president's vacation officially ends — it's clear the White House isn't shutting down. On the flight, top national security officials walked around with their children, and every seat of the presidential jet was full, either with military personnel ready to help the commander in chief, or members of the first family with their luggage.

For his part, Obama has urged aides to keep him out of the public eye. He spent last Christmas and New Years on the island awaiting his Inauguration in Windward Oahu at a house that rents for about $4,000 a night. He played basketball at his high school, ate shave (never shaved, as the mainland says) ice, toured a zoo and aquatic park, and spread the ashes of his grandmother, who died just days before his historic election.

This year, his sister, brother-in-law and their daughters waited on the tarmac as the Obamas arrived at what is the closest homeland the president knows. His grandmother and mother, both deceased, called this their base while raising him. And first lady Michelle Obama — a South Side of Chicago native whose mother lives with them at the White House but didn't make the trip here — has repeatedly said this is where her husband is from.

Even so, the White House machine doesn't let its chief take a few days to fly kites or body surf. It has the president at the ready to deal with any crisis, foreign or domestic. Red phones are wired, emergency binders are on the shelves. The president is ready to govern, even from a golf course.

NA body reviews amendments in Army Act

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Defence on Wednesday reviewed the amendments in Army Act introduced in 2007 by then government, reported ARY NEWS.

The committee met here in Parliament House with Chairperson Dr Azra Fazal in chair. Renowned lawyer and former President Supreme Court Bar Association Aitzaz Ahsan also attended the meeting on special invitation.

The committee deliberated on different amendments introduced in the act, including those through which any civilian can be detained and be tried in army courts under the Army Act. The committee also mulled over the amendments made in the sections of the law regarding the working and limits of military courts.

Barrister Ahsan opposed the amendments introduced by the regime under former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf. He was of the view that the certain articles of the amended law stripped any civilian tried in the military courts of many basic human rights, including the right to challenge the verdict.

He suggested that the concerned High Courts should be consulted for permission of military court’s constitution into any case.

Committee’s chairman observed in her remarks that all the political parties will be consulted on the introduced amendments in the law to make it more effective and better.

133rd birth anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam today

ISLAMABAD: The 133rd birth anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is being celebrated in a befitting manner today, ARY News reported.

The change of guard ceremony was held at Mazar-e-Quaid in Karachi today. A smartly turned out contingent of the Cadets from Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul mounted the guard at the Mazar of Quaid-e-Azam. Lady Cadets are also included in the contingent.

Quaid-e-Azam was the first and only Colonel-in-Chief of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah Academy at Kakul.

The government has declared a public holiday today.
The day dawned with special prayers for the progress and prosperity of Pakistan and its people.


The public leaders and representatives of the three services will also visit the mausoleum to offer Fateha and lay floral wreath. People from various walks of life will also visit the Mazar to pay homage to the Father of the Nation.

Political and social organizations have also chalked out programmes to celebrate the birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation.