Correspondence and Business Disputes Involving Miss Fatima Jinnah

Sub title : Letters About a Cheque Transfer, Property Brokerage Offer and Garden Manure Supply

Subject: Fatima Jinnah | Cheque transfer | Property agent | Karachi property | Contractor dispute

Date of publication: 1948

Language: English

Page: 14 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28979

Keyword: Fatima Jinnah -- Cheque -- Property agent -- Contractor dispute -- Jadid Tamirat | Compound wall -- Sewage manure -- Garden -- Karachi | Fatima Jinnah -- Associated documents

Abstract: Letter forwards a cheque of Rs. 19,525 to Messrs. Samiullah & Co. A property agent (January 1951) seeks details of Karachi property Miss Jinnah wishes to sell, citing 60 years of family experience in Delhi. A prolonged dispute (March‑April 1955) with contractor A.H. Shaikh (Jadid Tamirat Ltd.) over an outstanding Rs. 192 bill for small works; Miss Jinnah’s secretary insists payment only after remaining work is completed, while the contractor denies any unfinished work. A supplier (Asghar Ali Shah) offers sewage manure, flower pots, and free expert garden advice.

Description: Miss Fatima Jinnah acknowledging receipt of a cheque for Rs. 19,525 addressed to Samiullah & Co., which he is forwarding to the payee. On 31 January 1951, H.H. Mohd. Hassan, a property agent from Serai Road, Karachi, writes to Miss Jinnah offering his services to sell her Karachi property, mentioning his firm’s sixty years of experience in Delhi. A series of letters from March to April 1955 between Miss Jinnah’s secretary (A. Rashid) and contractor A.H. Shaikh (Jadid Tamirat Ltd.) disputes an outstanding payment of Rs. 192. The contractor claims the amount is due for small works (e.g., repairing a grass cutting machine, fixing buttons) done alongside a compound wall project, and that no work remains. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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