Isn’t it time that we brought back the daughter of the Quaid to Pakistan to take care of her in her old age?
KARACHI: Dina Wadia (the Quaid’s daughter) was born on the same day as Pakistan so, interestingly, she shares her date of birth with Pakistan as per Professor Stanley Wolpert (Jinnah of Pakistan, Oxford, 1984). Every Pakistani knows the story about how she differed with her father over her marriage to a Parsi businessman and subsequently after marriage stayed in India. She visited Pakistan upon the death of the Quaid, and then only once again in 2004, during the Musharraf era.
Now, she is very old and frail. Isn’t it time that we brought back Dina Wadia to Pakistan to take care of her in her old age? We failed miserably at taking care of her father in his last days. It’s time to make amends.
Wouldn’t it be just great if the prime minister or the president or the Chief of the Army Staff, or ideally all of them, request her to come to Pakistan and offer her to be looked after as the daughter of the Quaid by the state of Pakistan? She should be offered to be taken care of by the best doctors of the country and provided every facility available. This may be our way of saying thank you to our Quaid.
Zia Khalid
Published in The Express Tribune, March 19th, 2016.
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