Pakistan views on gandhi biography

All except Jinnah hailed Gandhi as a leader who strove for communal harmony and Indo-Pak understanding. Jinnah stoically held on to the view that Gandhi was only a leader of the Hindus. But he modified his stand later, after listening to his colleagues’ effusive eulogies.

When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948, the leaders of the new country Pakistan were shaken, and in their speeches in the Constituent Assembly and the Provincial Assemblies, they fully acknowledged the Indian leader’s life-long fight for Hindu-Muslim harmony, and after the formation of Pakistan, his campaign for India-Pakistan understanding and cooperation.

But even in that brief grief-filled atmosphere, the top-most leader of Pakistan, hailed as its founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, chose to be stoic, reticent and unemotional in his statement on Gandhi’s death. He stuck  to his time-worn line that Gandhi was a “great Hindu leader” nothing more.

Jinnah totally ign