All Pakistan Women’s Association and Women’s Organisations

Sub title : Invitations from Karachi Ladies’ Association, and Aims of Pakistan Women’s Voluntary Service

Subject: Fatima Jinnah | All Pakistan Women’s Association | APWA | Women’s organisations | Pakistan Women’s Voluntary Service

Date of publication: 1949

Language: English

Page: 69 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 29091

Keyword: All Pakistan Women’s Association -- Records and correspondence | All Pakistan Women’s Association -- Activities | Women’s organizations -- Pakistan | Women -- Societies and clubs -- Pakistan | Women’s associations -- Pakistan -- Karachi | Women’s voluntary service -- Pakistan -- Objectives

Abstract: A collection of documents from Miss Fatima Jinnah’s files relating to women’s organisations in Pakistan. Includes the minutes of the inaugural All‑Pakistan Women’s Conference (22‑24 February 1949), which elected Begum Liaquat Ali Khan as President and appointed Miss Fatima Jinnah and Begum Nazimuddin as Patrons. Also includes extracts of the APWA constitution, a complaint from the Women’s Association, Lahore about delays in court cases, invitations from the Karachi Ladies’ Association (1959, 1965), and the aims and objects of the Pakistan Women’s Voluntary Service.

Description: All‑Pakistan Women’s Conference (February 1949) list delegates from all provinces, agenda items including cultural development, educational progress, social reconstruction, and the passing of a provisional constitution. Resolutions called for universal literacy, free primary education, maternity centres, prohibition of child begging, and hygiene teaching. Miss Fatima Jinnah was unanimously elected a Patron. Later documents include a letter from the Women’s Association, Lahore (undated) complaining about adjournments and judicial delays, an invitation to a sewing party and talk on child welfare (17 March 1959), the aims of the Pakistan Women’s Voluntary Service (undated), and an invitation to a pulao party (29 April 1965). These papers illustrate Miss Jinnah’s symbolic and practical involvement with women’s voluntary organisations in Pakistan. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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