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25th December

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 Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was born on 25th December 1876 at Wazir Mansion in Karachi. Jinnah belongs to  a wealthy family as his father was a merchant. His father moves to Karachi in 1875. Before his departure he gets married. Jinnah had three brothers and three sisters including his younger sister Fatima Jinnah. Jinnah was second child to his parents. His parents were native Gujarati speakers so the children also originated to speak Kutchi and Urdu. But Jinnah was not fluent in Gujarati which was his mother-tongue nor in Urdu. He was fluent in English. Jinnah lived with his Aunt in Bombay and attended the Gokal Das Tej Primary School, later on he went to the cathedral and John Cannon School for study. He attended the Sindh Madrassa tul Islam in Karachi and Christian Missionary Society High School. As barrister Jinnah was trained at Lincoln's Inn in London. In the All India Muslim League Jinnah became a leader and fourteen points were proposed in the constitutional re...

16 DECEMBER

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 Peshawar, a city, where the mothers waited for her children to return from school but instead their dead bodies were delivered to her. A city where a father failed to see his kids living their dreams. On 16 December 2014 Taliban gunmen stormed the Army Public School in the northern city of Peshawar. More than 150 people were killed, 132 of them were children. This day is also known as ''BLACK DAY'' Some students, including 18 year old Yasir Iqbal, gathered in the large auditorium and were attentively listening to a lecture. Others sat at their desks, eyes on the clock instead of the blackboard, silently urging for the hands to move faster for the day to end so they could go home. In grade one, it was six year old Khaula's first day of school. She was overjoyed that she had finally joined her siblings instead of staying home. Who knows, it would be her only day at school. Eighth-grader Uzair Ali saw the attackers and jumped to shield his friends by lying on top of ...