MURDER MYSTERIES OF PAKISTAN: AN ARTICLE
THE DAILY MOTHERLAND (New Delhi) October 3, 1971
One by one the sordid secrets of the Pakistani dictators are coming out, the latest to come to light relates to the alleged murder of Fatima Jinnah. The judicial commission of Pakistan has concluded that Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the late Quaid-e-Azam Jinnah did not die a natural death. A strong demand for an inquiry into the death of Fatima Jinnah was being raised in Pakistan for quite some time, and the Martial Law authorities were forced to appoint a judicial com-mission for the purpose.
Those who were pressing for this demand included Miyan Manzur Basheer, President of the Pak Justice Party, who had based the demand for such a high level inquiry on a sensational report published in Nai Roshni, a Karachi daily. The four persons who gave the last bath to Miss Fatima Jinnah have disclosed that she had a gaping four-inch stab wound on her back and a hole in her belly, and her clothes and bed were blood-stained.
Although thus the alleged murder of Fatima Jinnah had been substantiated it has not been known so far who murdered her. So this continues to be a mystery, even as the murder of Liaquat Ali Khan, the first and only constitutional Prime Minister of Pakistan, remains a mystery as even in his case the identity of the murderer has not been so far established.
Now Begum Suleman Akhtar, daughter of the late Mr. H.S. Suhrawardy, has disclosed that she had reason to believe her father had been murdered by men specially sent by Ayub Khan.
As a matter of fact, this brings to five the number of suspicious deaths of top political leaders since Pakistan was created. The first of them was none other than Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. Jinnah had been ailing since before partition, but after partition the strain of hectic political activity damaged his health. To his im¬mediate political associates, it was clear that he would not recover if he continued to strain himself. He was, therefore, sent to Quetta for rest and recuperation accompanied by a paraphernalia of doctors.
In Quetta he fell seriously ill and somebody decided, for some mysterious reason, that it was necessary to bring him in that perilous state of health to Karachi regardless of the con¬sequences for him. He was put on a plane for Karachi, but strangely the paraphernalia of doctors stayed behind. Stranger still, when the plane arrived in Karachi, there was nobody to receive him. Only a lone rickety car with a nurse had been sent to the airport.
Not one political leader, doctor or official was on hand to receive the founder of Pakistan. He was dumped in the car and started the journey to his residence in Karachi. On the way, the lone car mysteriously broke down and the weakened and weakening Jinnah was in the hands of a lone nurse. Witnesses who saw him say he had no strength left to move his hand to shoo away flies swarming on his face. Ultimately the car was mended and restarted, and when it reached its destination Jinnah was dead.
One by one the sordid secrets of the Pakistani dictators are coming out, the latest to come to light relates to the alleged murder of Fatima Jinnah. The judicial commission of Pakistan has concluded that Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the late Quaid-e-Azam Jinnah did not die a natural death. A strong demand for an inquiry into the death of Fatima Jinnah was being raised in Pakistan for quite some time, and the Martial Law authorities were forced to appoint a judicial com-mission for the purpose.
Those who were pressing for this demand included Miyan Manzur Basheer, President of the Pak Justice Party, who had based the demand for such a high level inquiry on a sensational report published in Nai Roshni, a Karachi daily. The four persons who gave the last bath to Miss Fatima Jinnah have disclosed that she had a gaping four-inch stab wound on her back and a hole in her belly, and her clothes and bed were blood-stained.
Although thus the alleged murder of Fatima Jinnah had been substantiated it has not been known so far who murdered her. So this continues to be a mystery, even as the murder of Liaquat Ali Khan, the first and only constitutional Prime Minister of Pakistan, remains a mystery as even in his case the identity of the murderer has not been so far established.
Now Begum Suleman Akhtar, daughter of the late Mr. H.S. Suhrawardy, has disclosed that she had reason to believe her father had been murdered by men specially sent by Ayub Khan.
As a matter of fact, this brings to five the number of suspicious deaths of top political leaders since Pakistan was created. The first of them was none other than Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. Jinnah had been ailing since before partition, but after partition the strain of hectic political activity damaged his health. To his im¬mediate political associates, it was clear that he would not recover if he continued to strain himself. He was, therefore, sent to Quetta for rest and recuperation accompanied by a paraphernalia of doctors.
In Quetta he fell seriously ill and somebody decided, for some mysterious reason, that it was necessary to bring him in that perilous state of health to Karachi regardless of the con¬sequences for him. He was put on a plane for Karachi, but strangely the paraphernalia of doctors stayed behind. Stranger still, when the plane arrived in Karachi, there was nobody to receive him. Only a lone rickety car with a nurse had been sent to the airport.
Not one political leader, doctor or official was on hand to receive the founder of Pakistan. He was dumped in the car and started the journey to his residence in Karachi. On the way, the lone car mysteriously broke down and the weakened and weakening Jinnah was in the hands of a lone nurse. Witnesses who saw him say he had no strength left to move his hand to shoo away flies swarming on his face. Ultimately the car was mended and restarted, and when it reached its destination Jinnah was dead.
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