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Jinnah
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Jin·nah  (jn), Mohammed Ali 1876-1948.
Founder and first governor-general (1947-1948) of Pakistan. When India's independence from Britain was imminent, he feared the Muslim minority would be oppressed by the Hindus and insisted on a Muslim homeland, founded in 1947 as Pakistan.

Jinnah [ˈdʒɪnə]
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(Biographies / Jinnah, Mohammed Ali (1876-1948) M, Pakistaninational of birth: Indian, POLITICS: statesman) Mohammed Ali 1876-1948, Indian Muslim statesman. He campaigned for the partition of India into separate Hindu and Muslim states, becoming first governor general of Pakistan (1947-48)
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Noun1.Jinnah - Indian statesman who was the founder of Pakistan as a Muslim state (1876-1948)


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