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If Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah were still alive, today would be his 139th birthday. He is one of those rare personalities who actually managed to change the map of the world.

We are all, and always will be, thankful for all the dedication, service, love and hard work he put into getting us to where we are today.

Here are a collection of some of Quaid’s memorable pictures.

1. Mr Jinnah & Fatima Jinnah with friends in Bombay

2. Mr Jinnah with his sister Fatima and daughter Dina

3. Mr Jinnah on a car ride with a parsi friend

4. Cabinet mission

5. At the residence of Sir Abdullah Haroon

6. With war correspondents, Bombay-1942.

7. Meeting the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, in 1945

8. Mountbatten negotiating with the Quaid-e-Azam

9. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

10. Quaid-e-Azam with patriot Baloch leaders

11. Quaid-e-Azam with the Muslim League National Guards, Peshawar 1945

12. Mr Jinnah and Fatima Jinnah with Army men

13. The Cabinet Mission, 1946. Quaid with Sir Stafford Cripps and Lord Pethick Lawrence.

14. Quaid-e-Azam and other Indian leaders arrive at Heathrow airport on December 6, 1946.

15. Quaid with Muslim League leaders, Simla, 1936.

16. Quaid presiding over a joint meeting of Indian National Congress and All India Muslim League in 1916

17. Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah with members of the Sindh Legislative Assembly in 1947

18. Quaid-e-Azam with Nawab Jogezai in Quetta

19. Quaid-e-Azam receiving a Karakuli Jinnah Cap from the Balochistan National Guards, 1948

20. Rare picture of Quiad-e-Azam

21. Quaid welcomed by supporters at Quetta Railway Station, 1945

22. Quaid-e-Azam arriving to inaugurate the State Bank of Pakistan in Karachi on July 1, 1948.

23. Quaid receiving a loaf of bread from tribesmen in Khyber Agency, April 17, 2025

24. Quaid receiving a rifle from a tribal chief, NWFP, April 1948

25. The 7th battalion of the Baloch Regiment (now 15th Baloch Regiment) presenting the first Guard of Honour to Quaid-e-Azam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in Karachi on August 14, 1947.

26. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, photographed besides his car

27. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah being greeted in Bombay

28. Quaid-e-Azam arrives Pakistan

29. A rare photo of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1940’s

30. September 12, 1948. This picture was taken moments before the funeral prayer of Quaid-e-Azam

Jinnah fought the biggest legal case of his life and won Pakistan for us as a result! So Happy Birthday, Jinnah, and thank you!