THATTA, March 18: People’s Party Parliamentarians MPA Humaira Alwani, has commended a statement of Sindh Minister for Education Dr Hamida Khuhro that Jherruk was the actual birthplace of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and said that relevant authorities should accept truth and officials rectify the historical record.

Talking to this correspondent here on Friday, she claimed that the minister, a well-known academician and intellectual, in response to her adjournment motion of March 17, had asserted that Jherruk was the birthplace of the founder of Pakistan.

She maintained that from June 1957 to 1970, the curriculum of the Sindhi Adabi Board, Karachi, showed the town as the birthplace of the Quaid, and that a book ‘Anwaar Mufti’, compiled by the National Book Foundation, also supported the same.

The MPA said that it was not an issue of contention, however, history had to be corrected, and in light of the statement of the provincial minister, also a member of the treasury benches, relevant authorities should correct the history.—Correspondent