No one would have been more appalled by this than Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was secular through and through.

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At the airport in Karachi, supporters carried green flags with the likenesses of Mr. Musharraf and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, and handed out bags of pink petal-shaped confetti.

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He tried the patience of more practical and straightforwardly ambitious politicians like Nehru, for example by proposing Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's would-be leader, as India's first prime minister, to avert partition.

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The country had been set up as a homeland for Indian Muslims, but it had been a more or less secular state, as envisaged by its founder, the clean-shaven, tweed-jacketed, and Anglicized Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

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