Miscellaneous Correspondence Addressed to Fatima Jinnah

Sub title : Letters from a South Indian Muslim Association, a Shia rights organization and political sufferers

Subject: Fatima Jinnah | Muslim Progressive Association (Nagore, South India) | Shia religious rights | Zuljanah procession

Date of publication: 1948

Language: English

Page: 85 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28928

Keyword: Fatima Jinnah -- Nagore -- Poovoli -- Shia rights -- Zuljanah -- Narowal -- Hafiz Kifayat Hussain -- Section 144 | Political Sufferers Organisation -- Old Muslim League workers | Centre for Popularising Pakistan Abroad -- Urdu-Bengali fellowship -- East Pakistan

Abstract: A South Indian Muslim association seeks blessings for a new monthly publication “Poovoli”; a Shia organisation from Narowal (Sialkot) urgently requests her intervention after the Deputy Commissioner banned a Zuljanah procession and arrested 400 Shias including a prominent divine; the Political Sufferers Organisation of Pakistan asks for support to rehabilitate old Muslim League workers who are “on the verge of starvation”; a Lahore centre requests her patronship for a magazine to popularise Pakistan abroad; and a Dacca-based association invites cooperation to foster Urdu-Bengali harmony through cultural meetings, translation, and intermarriage.

Description: A South Indian association seeks blessings for a new monthly “Poovoli”; a Shia group from Narowal pleads for her intervention after 400 arrests over a banned Zuljanah procession; political sufferers, a foreign propaganda centre, and a Bengali‑Urdu fellowship all request her patronage, support, or cooperation for their causes. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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