Where is jinnahs daughter

However, she later visited Pakistan for her father's funeral in Karachi in September Her second visit was the much-hyped visit during the India-Pakistan cricket series in She undertook the journey to Pakistan since she was a great believer in 'cricket diplomacy'. In the visitors' book, Dina wrote: "This has been very sad and wonderful for me.

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Update your browser for the best experience. She was spry and petite, wearing bright red lipstick - and with her high cheekbones and aquiline nose, and somewhat imperious expression, she looked strikingly like her father.

Indeed, I remember the shock of that first glance upon her - her father's daughter. Dina Wadia was charming and friendly. She showed me a photo of her beautiful mother, Rattanbai "Ruttie" Petit, a Parsi, who died when her daughter was nine. She was brought up largely by her maternal grandmother. On her desk was a photo of her father. She spoke of her pride in Jinnah. Yes, they had quarrelled over her marriage to Neville Wadia - who was born a Parsi but converted to Christianity - but they made it up, and often spoke and wrote to each other.

She says her father rang her from Delhi to say "We've got it! Her own temperament and personality, she reckoned, came more from her father than her mother. Dina never made her home in Pakistan. She told me that Bombay Mumbai was her city - though she spent long periods in London as well as New York. She went to Pakistan for her father's funeral in , and twice more to visit her Aunt Fatima, Jinnah's sister, but when we met she hadn't set foot in Pakistan since Fatima's death in She said she had been invited many times, by Benazir Bhutto and others, but had persistently refused - she didn't want to be used as a mascot.

She complained of leaders who had "robbed" the country and warned that democracy hadn't flourished in any Muslim country.