Miscellaneous Refugee Claims and Rehabilitation Correspondence

Sub title : Petitions, Court Memoranda, and Letters to Government Officials – Including References to Miss Fatima Jinnah

Subject: Fatima Jinnah | Refugee rehabilitation | Property claims | Railway employees | Land verification

Date of publication: 1955

Language: English

Page: 179 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 29031

Keyword: Fatima Jinnah -- Refugee claims -- Land verification -- Peshawar | Evacuee property -- Allotment -- Sardar Amir Azam Khan -- A.K. Osman | Migrants -- Pakistan -- Peshawar -- Petitions

Abstract: A collection of documents from 1955‑1959 related to refugee claims and rehabilitation. Includes a former railway employee’s petition for verification of agricultural land and house left in India (copied to Miss Fatima Jinnah), a Peshawar Deputy Settlement Commissioner’s memorandum directing occupants to attend court for house removal under a social welfare scheme, and letters from a displaced person, A.K. Osman, seeking evacuee property allotment or compensation, with copies to Miss Jinnah. Also includes a D.O. letter from the Minister for Refugees acknowledging a request.

Description: The earliest documents (November‑December 1955) are letters from A.K. Osman (Candle Toy & Sports House, Karachi) to Sardar Amir Azam Khan, Minister for Refugees, requesting allotment of evacuee residential and business premises, and recounting previous unsuccessful approaches. A D.O. letter (20 October 1955) from the Minister to Ahmed B.H. Jaffer acknowledges an application from Osman. A 28 May 1959 petition from Habibullah (a retired railway clerk) to the Establishment Minister, copied to Miss Fatima Jinnah, seeks verification of his 5 acres of cultivable land, house, and leasehold property SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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