1949 his family arranged for a flight to bring him back as the nonagenarian looks back on the decades after independence he feels the new country whose birth he witnessed squandered a lot of opportunities to make the right choice jinnah and liaquat ali khan both used to stay at my familys house here habib manzil when they visited aligarh in the 10 years before partition anything to do with muslims was controlled by the muslim league including anjumanetaraqqieurdu jinnah didnt return here after 1944 he recalls but by the time of independence jinnah was a spent force and liaquat ali khan framed all the new countrys policies i have always wondered since about the people there how is it that they never came out in support of democratic leaders and principles even today they only say that the army will do everything he added with a shake of his head