The document discusses Muhammad Ali Jinnah, known as Quaid-e-Azam or "Great Leader", who was a lawyer and politician that led the movement for Pakistan's independence and served as its first Governor-General. It provides details on his early life and career in India, his rising prominence in the Indian National Congress in the early 1900s advocating for Hindu-Muslim unity. It then discusses how by 1940 he came to believe that Indian Muslims required their own state, leading the Muslim League to pass the Lahore Resolution demanding a separate nation. After Pakistan gained independence in 1947, Jinnah served as its first Governor-General until his death in 1948, leaving a respected legacy as Pakistan's greatest leader.