Legal and Estate Management Documents Related to Miss Fatima Jinnah and the Quaid‑i‑Azam Estate

Sub title : Correspondence About Delhi Property, and Power of Attorney for Indian Tax Matters

Subject: Fatima Jinnah | Quaid‑i‑Azam estate | Evacuee property | Bombay property | Mount Pleasant Road

Date of publication: 1948

Language: English

Page: 23 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28978

Keyword: Fatima Jinnah -- Quaid‑i‑Azam estate -- Evacuee property -- Bombay | US Consulate -- Executors -- Liaquat Ali Khan -- Succession certificate | Power of attorney -- Bombay Evacuees Act 1949 -- Custodian of Evacuee Property -- Income tax -- Wealth tax

Abstract: Miss Fatima Jinnah’s role as executor and successor of Quaid‑i‑Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s estate. Includes a US Embassy letter declining to purchase her Bombay property, minutes of executors’ meetings (July 1949) discussing evacuee property in Bombay, requisition of Lahore bungalow, and shares management. Also contains extracts of the Bombay Evacuees (Administration of Property) Act 1949 and the Governor‑General’s Ordinance on evacuee property, a query about selling Quaid‑i‑Azam’s New Delhi property, and a 1965 power of attorney appointing attorneys to handle Indian income‑tax and wealth‑tax matters for the estate.

Description: The collection opens with a 1948 letter from the US Embassy’s Charge d’Affaires in Karachi, declining to purchase Miss Jinnah’s Bombay property for the Consulate General because it was “much too large.” Minutes of executors’ meetings (12 July 1949) – attended by Miss Fatima Jinnah, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, and advocate M.N. Kotwal – cover the Custodian of Evacuee Property taking possession of the Mount Pleasant Road property in Bombay, requisition of bungalow No. 58 Lahore Cantonment, and handling of Pakistan 3% Loan papers and shares. Printed extracts of the Bombay Evacuees (Administration of Property) Act 1949 and the Governor‑General’s Ordinance No. XII of 1949 define “evacuee,” “custodian,” and evacuee property. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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