Sheikh Amer Hassan is a fashion graduate from the prestigious London College of Fashion and Bournville College of Art in England. Now living between Karachi, Lahore and London, he is one of the pioneers of fashion in Pakistan and famous as a designer, socialite and a social worker

I learnt so much about Jinnah during the making of my film Jinnah, the man of style shown on Indus Television on August 14, as my special gift to Pakistan and to our nation on its 61st birthday. It took me exactly eleven years to collect all the material for my research that left everyone who saw it completely intrigued and enlightened with facts and information. I also felt that Mohammed Ali Jinnah had to be reintroduced as a modern man with vision and integrity. He lived only a few decades ago, not a million years and the wayhe has been portrayed to us is as if he lived centuries past. For God’s sake, he was a real man who is a perfect ideal for every Pakistani to follow. Almost everything about him has been from us. The truth had to be shared with everyone; these things have never been shown before only because we have been kept deprived about the real facts deliberately over the years and also kept distant from the great man himself. I cannot understand why it is so, but as I started my research, so much became apparent. Reasons started becoming more obvious, from his personal elitist self to his liberal philosophy. It is all way too different to what is actually being done to our country.