Telegrams Addressed to Miss Fatima Jinnah

Sub title : Sales Tax Exemption, Eviction, Election Violence, Iqbal Day, Cottage Industry, and Mahajir Conference

Subject: Fatima Jinnah | Telegrams | Service grievance | Khilafat Trust | Mukata tax | Sales tax exemption

Date of publication: 1949

Language: English

Page: 101 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 29053

Keyword: Fatima Jinnah -- Telegrams -- Mukata tax -- Kidnapping | Sales tax -- Cottage industry | Eviction -- Iqbal Day -- Mahajir conference | Fatima Jinnah -- Correspondence | Kidnapping -- Pakistan -- Reports and petitions

Abstract: A collection of telegrams sent to Miss Fatima Jinnah between 1949 and 1951. Topics include: a complaint of injustice against R.D. Howe and Mohd Iqbal regarding a food controller’s accountant; a request for an interview to appeal about Khilafat Trust; Muhajirs of Naushahro protesting an unjust “mukata” tax; a kidnapping case where victims were recaptured by armed men; a plea for exemption of sales tax on shoes manufacturing (cottage industry); a garden contract dispute threatening 16 refugee families; a police eviction of a purdanasheen lady; a protest against election violence; an invitation to preside over Iqbal Day in Lahore; and a request for Miss Jinnah to preside over a Mahajir conference in Chittagong. Also includes condolences on Quaid‑i‑Azam’s birthday.

Description: A telegram from “All Muhajir Taluka Naushahro” (12 February 1951) complains that a “mukata” tax is imposed only in their area and not elsewhere in Pakistan, and poor Muhajirs cannot pay. A kidnapping case reports that Umar Thedo and six others forcibly abducted a cousin’s wife and daughter; the victims escaped but were recaptured by 40 men with lethal weapons. The Shoes Manufacturing Association prays for exemption from sales tax for cottage industry. Ahsamullah requests that a garden contract not be disturbed, as 16 refugee families depend on it and the crop is ready. Qazi Noormohd (page 11) reports that police forcibly evicted him and his purdanasheen ladies, throwing out belongings from the house allotted to him. Walimohd (page 13) states his voters were beaten by League candidates’ workers and he leaves the election as a protest. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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