Just before the partition of India in 1947, Muhammad Ali Jinnah was afflicted with severe tuberculosis. The doctors knew he did not have much time left, but they did not disclose this news. They were two Parsi doctors from Bombay (now Mumbai). Their assessment was that Jinnah would not survive more than one or two years. This confidential information--if disclosed-- about Jinnah's illness could perhaps have changed the very history of the partition of India. Now, 78 years later, Islamabad has de...
