While Aligarh Muslim University has recently said they are willing to remove the portrait of Pakistan’s father of the Nation Muhammad Ali Jinnah, veteran Indian historian and Professor Emeritus of the university Irfan Habib has strongly come against it.
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Talking to Asianet News he has said that all these are part of the history and we should admit that. We have to condemn Jinnah’s views after 1941 but we should accept his participation in the freedom struggle for India. Professor Habib remembered the moment when he first saw Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He was seven years old then and along with his father and Aligad professor Muhammad Habeeb when he met Jinnah.
It was in 1938 when Jinnah’s portrait was placed at the Students Union Hall of Aligarh Muslim University. Prof.Irfan Habib says that a controversy on this picture after 80 years is baseless.
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