Appeals and Thank‑You Letters from Unani & Ayurvedic Tibbi Conferences to Fatima Jinnah

Sub title : Requests for Messages, Inauguration of Conferences, and Gratitude for State Patronage of Traditional Medicine

Subject: Fatima Jinnah | Unani medicine | Ayurvedic medicine | Tibbi Conference | Punjab Provincial Tibbi Conference

Date of publication: 1951

Language: Urdu / English

Page: 40 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28939

Keyword: Fatima Jinnah -- Unani medicine -- Ayurveda -- Tibbi Conference -- Hakim Ajmal Khan | Registration of Hakeems -- Pakistan health policy -- Rural doctors | Quaid‑e‑Azam -- Allama Iqbal -- College of Eastern Medicine

Abstract: Letters from Tibbi (Unani/Ayurvedic) organisations in Lahore, Peshawar, Hyderabad, and Karachi to Fatima Jinnah between 1951 and 1958. They request her to send messages for annual sessions, thank her for inaugurating the first All Pakistan Ayurvedic & Unani Tibbi Conference (Karachi, 1950), and credit her support for the passage of the Unani & Homeopathic Registration Bill, which secured state recognition for traditional medicine.

Description: The Punjab Provincial Tibbi Conference (Lahore, Dec 2, 1951) invites Fatima Jinnah to send a message for its annual session at Gujranwala, noting that Allama Iqbal and Sir Muhammad Shafi had presided earlier. The All Pakistan Ayurvedic & Unani Tibbi Conference (Peshawar, 1952) reminds her that she inaugurated its first session in Karachi (1950). A thank‑you letter (Oct 23, 1957) acknowledges that her intervention led to the registration bill and the formation of a government board. A later invitation (Oct 1954) requests her presence at the fourth session in Hyderabad, while a 1958 Urdu document from the College of Eastern Medicine, Karachi, outlines new legal rights for registered Hakeems. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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