 On 4 July 1947 , Liaquat asked Mountbatten on Jinnah 's behalf to recommend to the British king , George VI , that Jinnah be appointed Pakistan 's first governor @-@ general . This request angered Mountbatten , who had hoped to have that position in both dominions — he would be India 's first post @-@ independence governor @-@ general — but Jinnah felt that Mountbatten would be likely to favour the new Hindu @-@ majority state because of his closeness to Nehru . In addition , the governor @-@ general would initially be a powerful figure , and Jinnah did not trust anyone else to take that office . Although the Boundary Commission , led by British lawyer Sir Cyril Radcliffe , had not yet reported , there were already massive movements of populations between the nations @-@ to @-@ be , as well as sectarian violence . Jinnah arranged to sell his house in Bombay and procured a new one in Karachi . On 7 August , Jinnah , with his sister and close staff , flew from Delhi to Karachi in Mountbatten 's plane , and as the plane taxied , he was heard to murmur , " That 's the end of that . " On 11 August , he presided over the new constituent assembly for Pakistan at Karachi , and addressed them , " You are free ; you are free to go to your temples , you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan ... You may belong to any religion or caste or creed — that has nothing to do with the business of the State ... I think we should keep that in front of us as our ideal and you will find that in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims , not in the religious sense , because that is the personal faith of each individual , but in the political sense as citizens of the State . " On 14 August , Pakistan became independent ; Jinnah led the celebrations in Karachi . One observer wrote , " here indeed is Pakistan 's King Emperor , Archbishop of Canterbury , Speaker and Prime Minister concentrated into one formidable Quaid @-@ e @-@ Azam . " 
