Assam and Punjab under the Partition Plan. Jinnah was vehemently against the partition of Bengal and Punjab during the creation of the states of India and Pakistan. Nonetheless, the partitions ...

Moradabad (UP), Nov 12 (ANI): AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on November 11 said Congress and Mohammed Ali Jinnah were responsible for the partition of India and not the Muslims. Owaisi said ...

There is still debate about Jinnah’s motives—whether he used Partition as a bargaining tool for the Muslim League in a united India or truly wanted two separate nations. However, his call for ...

the partition of Bengal, and of Punjab, — the ‘moth-eaten’ Pakistan imposed by Mountbatten. After all, Jinnah is reported to have said: “To imagine Pakistan without Calcutta is to ...

Abul Kalam Azad chose not to contest Congress Presidency and to throw his weight behind Nehru, instead of Patel, a decision he would come to regret. Patel would have seen his plan through, while Nehru ...

Courtesy The Telegraph, Calcutta. Extracted from the book Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence; by Jaswant Singh; Publisher: Rupa & co; pp: 669; Price: Rs 695 Jaswant challenges book ban A former ...

"Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, has either been ignored or, as in the case of of the hugely successful film Gandhi, portrayed as a cold megalomaniac, bent on the bloody partition of India ...