Nizami urges women to follow Fatima Jinnah
LAHORE — TheNation Editor-in-Chief and Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust Chairman Majid Nizami has urged the women to follow the footsteps of Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah in making Pakistan a modern Islamic welfare state.
Addressing a special sitting held at Aiwan-e-Karkunan Tehrik-e-Pakistan on Saturday to celebrate the 119th birth anniversary of Madr-e-Millat, the NPT chairman said there could have been no Pakistan if there was no Madr-e-Millat. “She stood with the Quaid in all odds,” Majid Nizami added.
NPT Vice-Chairman Professor Dr Rafique Ahmad, Justice (rtd) Nasira Javid Iqbal, Mehnaz Rafi, Begum Zakia Shahnawaz, Ms Khurished Niazi, Amina Ulfat, Rana Arshad, Dr Parveen Khan, Dr MA Soofi, Allama Muzaffar Mirza, Shahid Rasheed, Sarfraz Mirza, Zafrullah Khan, Pakistan Movement workers, teachers, students and people from different walks of life attended the sitting, which also cut a cake on the occasion. The NPT and the Pakistan Movement Trust had jointly organised the sitting.
“I believe Allama Iqbal gave the vision of a new state for the Muslims and the Quaid-i-Azam created Pakistan,” he said, adding that “Mohtarama Fatima Jinnah scarified her life for rendering her service to the Quaid without which Pakistan would never have been created”.
Majid Nizami said that Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah had lost the election due to the rigging by the Ayub dictatorship but in-fact she was the winner. He was of the view that had she been the president of the country, there would have been no separation of Pakistan. “She came forward to face the dictator Ayub Khan, in the elections when no man had got the courage to face Ayub,” he added.
Majid Nizami recalled his meetings with Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah and told the sitting that “those moments are best part of my memory today”. He also recalled the press advices by the Ayub dictatorship for not publishing the name of Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah with the title “Madr-e-Millat”. He told the sitting that the Nawa-i-Waqt had titled her “Madr-e-Millat”.
“You are our mother and no need of saying thanks,” Majid Nizami remembered his own remarks when after the election he met Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah. She wanted to give him thanks for publishing news in the daily “Nawa-i-Waqt” in her favour during the election campaign.
Source: The Nation
Date:7/31/2011
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