Land Disputes, Abducted Women, Refugee Claims, and Appeals to Authorities, with Copies to Miss Fatima Jinnah

Sub title : Letters to Governor of East Pakistan, President Ayub Khan, UN Secretary General, and Others on Rehabilitation

Subject: Fatima Jinnah | Refugee rehabilitation | Land acquisition | Biscuit factory | Non‑agreed areas claims

Date of publication: 1951

Language: English

Page: 114 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 29033

Keyword: Fatima Jinnah -- Refugee claims -- Land acquisition -- Khulna | Non‑agreed areas -- Abducted women -- Custody -- Martial law -- Repatriation | Administrative correspondence -- Pakistan | Refugee rehabilitation -- Pakistan

Abstract: A set of petitions and letters from the 1950s‑1960s, many copied to Miss Fatima Jinnah. Includes a Khulna refugee’s request to acquire land for his bakery (1961); a representation from non‑agreed area displaced persons protesting the re‑opening of verified claims (1961); a 1951 letter about recovering an abducted girl; a mother’s plea to President Ayub Khan for return of her three daughters confined by a man (1961); a dismissed worker’s appeal to the UN for repatriation (1961); and a confused document about a house in Surrey.

Description: The earliest document acknowledges efforts to transfer an abducted girl to Pakistan. A 1961 petition to the Governor of East Pakistan from Syed Ghulam Hussain (Hussain Bakery, Khulna) seeks acquisition of 8 cattahs of land owned by two Indian nationals and one Pakistani, offering to pay in instalments. (dated 49‑1‑1961) is a detailed representation to President Ayub Khan from “genuine Non‑Agreed Areas Displaced Persons” objecting to the Scrutiny of Claims Regulation (No. 84 of 1960) that orders re‑opening of judicially verified claims, calling it unjust and harsh. Pages 9 and 18 contain a mother’s desperate plea (partly illegible) that a man, Chaman Iyder Chandio, took her three daughters to Lahore and confined them; she asks for the case to be sent to a judge in Sukkur.(1 April 1961) is a letter to the UN Secretary General from a refugee dismissed from his job under martial law, requesting repatriation, with a copy to Miss Fatima Jinnah.An unrelated or misfiled document about a house in Surrey, UK. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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