By Oliva 
Its was August 7th, 1947, when a silver aircraft circled over the airport at Mauripur, Karachi. It was washed by a vast, excited crowd while smoothly landing. First to step out of the aeroplane was a tall and dignified man wearing a pure white sherwani. As soon as he appeared, the whole crowd road with one voice, “Pakistan Zindabad! Pakistan Zindabad”. And everyone pushed forward to welcome him, to get as close to him as possible in order to see him clearly. For here was there great leader, Quaid-e-Azam, the founder and first governor general of there new country. Here was there leader who has won Pakistan for them Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Silent Leader Amid Cheers
As he drove through the great sea of people that stretched from the airport to the city, through all the cheer and tears joy and the never ending slogans of “Pakistan Zindabad!“, The Quaid showed no signs of his feelings. He rarely did so. If he felt pride of joy in what he had done, he did not let any body see it.
Through all the excitement of those first days in the life of the young nation, the man who had made it possible remained calmed, serious and sober. Perhaps he was thinking of the millions of peoples who had become homeless when India and Pakistan became separate countries.
Grief Behind the Glory
Perhaps he was thinking of the thousand who were being attacked and killed on the road and railways as they tried to reach their homeland. There was much in those days of violence to sadden Jinnah who was a man of very strong feelings although he really showed it.
Yet those who were closed to him on independence day sometimes saw for a few moment a happier man. Once he went to the balcony of the governor house, from where he could see without being seen, and as he look on the crowed still cheering in the streets outsides, he smiled. In that smile could be seen the warm hearted man behind the stern Quaid-e-Azam. Muhammad Ali Jinnah was at this time tired and for from well but he had the satisfaction of knowing that the greater part of his work was done.
Message of Equal Freedom
By the force of his determination and leadership, a people who had once been a defeated group, with little to hope for, in an empire ruled by a foreign power, had become the greatest of the Muslims states and the fifth largest nation in the world. 70 million people, who once had no country to call their own, had become a nation with great ideals and a great faith.
A few days after he landed in Karachi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah told his people, “you are free to go to your temples: you are free to go to your mosque or to any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or cast we all are citizens of one state.” He was, of course reminding them of the Prophet’s (PBUH) teaching that all men are equal in the eyes of ALLAH (SWT).