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Jinnah now lives in lonely splendor at Government House in Karachi. Frosty and aloof as ever, he keeps his advisers and ministers at a respectful distance. His constant companion, and only close friend, is his 54-year-old sister Fatima. After their parents died, when Fatima was nine, Jinnah brought her up. She was a dentist for a year in Bombay; her first patient was brother Mohamed. She gave up dentistry to look after him when his wife died...
...Since Jinnah became Governor General, Fatima has blossomed, in her wraithlike fashion, as official hostess. When Jinnah's illness kept him in Lahore, Fatima paid regal visits every day to hospitals, refugee camps and schools. If photographers failed to turn up, Fatima was beside herself. Lahore's famed rose gardens were renamed Gulistan-i-Fatima (Miss Fatima Gardens). Her car sported a blue personal flag with the initials "FJ" encircled in the center...
...with an enormous flatiron. All was now ready for the Pooh-Bah of Pakistan, in whose austere person are combined the offices of Governor General, President of the Constituent Assembly and President of the Moslem League. With proper crustiness, Mohamed Ali Jinnah strode up the steps with his sister Fatima. He was wearing a white achkan (long coat), grey fur "Jinnah cap" and a monocle. The small crowd (5,000) shouted "Quaid-e-Azam Zindabad" (Long Live the Great Leader...
Since then he has shared his Malabar Hill and New Delhi homes with his sister, Fatima. He lives austerely, has no close friends. He disowned his daughter for marrying a rich Christian...
...French came to rule, when Islam's mothers and daughters lived dutifully within their walled courtyards. Everywhere in the ancient capital jealous men gathered and listened. Then angry groups marched down the Street Called Straight, surged by the ass and spice markets, the tombs of Saladin and Fatima, the places where Ananias lived and St. Paul dropped down the wall in a basket. They bore rifles, revolvers, axes, sticks & stones...