India's prevailing situation bears witness to Jinnah's far-sightedness: Asad Umar.

ISLAMABAD -- Planning Minister Asad Umar took to Twitter today to shine light on Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's wisdom and far-sightedness to create an independent homeland for the Muslims of the subcontinent.

'If we want to explain to today's Pakistani youth why it was necessary to create Pakistan, then India's current conditions are more convincing than any history lesson,' he said in a tweet.

The minister said this was Jinnah's long-sightedness that sensed what was to befall the Muslims in an undivided subcontinent.

'Aye Quaid-e-Azam tera ehsan...' he wrote towards the end of his tweet, paying tribute to father of the nation.

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