Legal Certificates, and Rehabilitation Correspondence from Miss Fatima Jinnah’s Files

Sub title : Refugee Woman’s Appeal Against Forced Eviction, Harassment, Hotel Looting Petition and Legal Credentials of a Barrister

Subject: Fatima Jinnah | Refugee women | Forced eviction | Harassment | Hotel looting | Legal certificates

Date of publication: 1948

Language: English

Page: 39 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 29032

Keyword: Fatima Jinnah -- Refugee -- Harassment | Hotel looting -- Legal certificates -- Barrister -- Pension claim -- Rural displaced persons | Fatima Jinnah -- Archives | Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Pakistan | Administrative correspondence -- Pakistan

Abstract: Documents from the late 1940s to 1959 found in Miss Fatima Jinnah’s files. Includes a refugee woman’s desperate plea against a man who forcibly occupied her flat and threatened her honour (1948); a hotel owner’s complaint about looting and police inaction (1950); a collection of legal certificates and testimonials for a barrister (1921‑1947); a follow‑up letter regarding a pension claim (1959); and a representation to President Ayub Khan about rural displaced persons not receiving compensation for low‑value houses.

Description: Letter from Mrs. N.S. Wazir, a refugee woman in Karachi, complaining that Mr. Jamal‑ud‑Din, who had helped her obtain a flat, forcibly occupied one room with goondas, threatened her honour, and that police and authorities did nothing. She copies the appeal to Quaid‑i‑Azam, Liaquat Ali Khan, Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, and Miss Fatima Jinnah. The second petition (pages 9‑10, 28 August 1950) from Aghaq Hussain, a hotel owner in Shahdadpur, describes how Alladino and 40‑50 followers looted and damaged his hotel, removed the roof, cut electricity, and police took no action; copies are sent to Miss Fatima Jinnah.Contain multiple legal certificates for Mohd. Liyaqat Ullah Koreisihy (Qureshi), including his Bachelor of Law from Allahabad University (1922), enrollment as Vakil of Allahabad High Court (1924), call to the Bar at Middle Temple (1928), and testimonials from judges of Hyderabad High Court (1947). SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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