"Jinnah was disgusted with losing matters in Sindh."

Ram Jethmalani said that Sindh, particularly Karachi, had some great lawyers. "If they had been practising in Delhi or Bombay, would have probably been at the top."

He spoke about how Jinnah came thrice to Sindh after being engaged in some matters, and lost all three cases. "When Jinnah qualified for the Bar, he came to Karachi to practice. Jinnah belonged to the community of Khojas who were rich merchants and he expected to have a readymade clientele in Karachi. He went to a firm of Hindu lawyers called Harichandra and Co. Old Harichandra had interviewed him and once he said that he was perfectly qualified to practice, they had to settle the terms. Jinnah wanted hundred rupees, but the old Hindu miser was unwilling to go above seventy-five. I have always said, even in public, that Jinnah was not the cause of India's partition, but that old Hindu miser."

Jinnah was disgusted with losing matters in Sindh. Khan Bahadur Khuro, a powerful Muslim League leader, had been accused of murder. When he approached Jinnah to represent him, Jinnah declined, perhaps because he realised he was never going to win a case in Sindh.

Ram Jethmalani also spoke about Sindh being the cradle of Sufism, the gentlest form of Islam. He said that it was synonymous with the Kashmiriyat of Kashmir. Shah Abdul Latif, one of the greatest poets, was a product of Sindh. "We had developed a great synthesis between the two communities, that as a Hindu youngster, I would get my new clothes on Id and Muslin youngsters would get their clothes on Deepavali. Even when Partition had happened, and lakhs of people were getting killed, the Sindhi Muslim never killed a single Hindu. "

"Speaking for myself, for the sake of safety, I had brought my family to Bombay, but I had gone back to Sindh and continued my practice in the hope that things would become normal. I stayed till February 1948 and by that time a large number of Muslims had come from Bihar and other places to Sindh and that was the cause of great tension because they wanted Hindu properties.

"In February, when I was arguing a case in the Magistrate's court, my Pathan driver came in and said that the locality where I was living was in danger. I found on the way back that nobody was being hurt physically, but preparations had been made to rob all the property, to create fear and force Hindus to migrate. That is exactly what happened."

Ram Jethmalani's partner during his practice in Karachi was a secular Muslim gentleman and a great scholar - A K Brohi, who later piloted the first Constitution of Pakistan. "Seeing the incidents of February 1948, he said that he could no longer bear the responsibility of my safety. Then I left and settled down in Bombay and started practice." He said that there was a good bit of opposition but his attitude today was that he owed everything to the people of India.