Miscellaneous Telegrams to Miss Fatima Jinnah

Sub title : Appeals Regarding Midwifery Exams, Refugee Harassment, Rehabilitation Injustices, Police Brutality, and New Year Wishes

Subject: Fatima Jinnah | Midwifery examination | Sukkur Red Cross Centre | Refugee families | Allotment

Date of publication: 1949

Language: English

Page: 46 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 29059

Keyword: Fatima Jinnah -- Correspondence | Petitions -- Pakistan -- History | Fatima Jinnah -- Midwifery -- Refugees | Rehabilitation -- Ration cut | Police brutality -- Pakistan | Refugees -- Pakistan -- Social conditions

Abstract: A set of nine telegrams from 1949‑1952 addressed to Miss Fatima Jinnah. Topics include a complaint about the severe failure rate of Pakistani ladies in the Sind Assistant Midwifery/Dais examination (11 candidates, 9 failed) – the writer urges leniency as they had completed delivery case training; a telegram about 25 Bharatpur refugee families in possession of Rewachand Garden, Mirpurkhas, being harassed and their huts dismantled by a non‑agriculturist allottee; merchants in Sukkur protesting the illegal sealing of business premises by rehabilitation authorities; a demand for dismissal of the Deputy Rehabilitation Commissioner; a report from Campbellpur that ration scale for Kashmiri refugee camps was reduced abruptly, leading to a ration strike and four deaths from starvation; a telegram from Chittagong about Muslims detained for eight hours and beaten for trying to attend congregational prayers; a New Year greeting from the Punjab Homeopathic Federation; and a complaint about mosque construction in Khori Garden being damaged and shops being built on the roadside to the detriment of poor refugees.

Description: A Sukkur telegram laments that nine Pakistani ladies failed a midwifery exam despite completing delivery training and requests leniency. Another telegram from Mirpurkhas describes 25 refugee families harassed and their huts dismantled by a non‑agriculturist allottee. Further telegrams report illegal sealing of businesses in Sukkur, ration cuts causing starvation in Kashmiri camps, police beating of Muslims in Chittagong, a New Year greeting from the Punjab Homeopathic Federation, and a complaint about mosque construction being sabotaged to benefit shopkeepers at refugees’ expense. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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