Research Assistant, South Asia Program, @StimsonCenter | @TuftsUniversity 🐘
Jan 10, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Jinnah spent his final hours stranded.
His ambulance ran out of fuel.
For hours, drivers rushed past the founder of their country, their Quaid, as he breathed his last on the streets of his hometown, Karachi.
No one helped.
Select passages on his final hours👇🧵
"After we had covered about four miles, the ambulance coughed, as if gasping for
breath, and came to a sudden stop. After about five minutes, I came out of the ambulance and was told that it had run short of petrol."