Those leaders who have left lasting imprints on the mind of people shared some common distinctive characteristics. They were down to earth , they avoided pomp and show, power didn’t corrupt them, they didn’t squander public money and were parsimonious in its spending, whenever they undertook foreign visits they didn’t take along with hangers on at state expense and flew in commercial flight instead of flying in chartered planes, they didn’t promote dynastic politics in their country, they didn’t believe in Dr. Goebbels dictum to speak falsehood to such an extent that listeners start believing it to be truth. Some names like Mao TSE Tung, Chou en Lai, Honh Chin min, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Soekarno, Khomeni, Mandela, Julias Nerarey instantly come to the mind who fall into the above mentioned category.
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Mohammad Ali Jinnah was addressing a public meeting in Cunningham park Peshawar city now renamed as Jinnah park during partition struggle. A foreign journalist noted that a Pustho speaking person was clapping at every sentence that he uttered in his Urdu speech in which he occasionally used some English words also. At the end of the meeting he enquired from him how come he clapped during the speech of Quaid e Azam when he didn’t understand Urdu or English language to which he replied that granted that he has no inkling of Urdu or English language in which the founder of the nation spoke but about one thing he had not an iota of doubt and that was he knew that since he never lied whatever he was saying was absolutely true.
