THATTA, Dec 25: Pakistan People’s Party MPA Humera Alwani, has moved a notice under rule 103(1) in the Sindh assembly for the passage of a resolution aimed at declaring Jherruk in Thatta district the birthplace of the Father of the Nation Quaid-i-Azam, Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

The MPA stated this while addressing a gathering comprising mostly Thatta PPP women wing activists held at Makli on Thursday to pay tribute to Quaid-i-Azam at his 132nd birth anniversary.

The meeting was presided over by district president of the PPP women wing MPA Humera Alwani and was also attended by Nargis Bano, Rehana Memon, Najma Baloch, Shahnaz Joyo and Najma Memon.

Humera Alwani claimed that facts collected by a fact-finding committee comprising councillors and journalists headed by Sadiq Hussain Khwaja of the Quaid-i-Azam Yadgar Committee in 2001, acknowledgement about Jherruk as the actual birth place by known intellectual and academician Dr Ghulam Ali Allana, former Sindh education minister Pyar Ali Allana, were sufficient enough to set the record straight.

Pyar Ali Allana’s grandfather Seth Karim Qasim was the first cousin of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

Referring to research findings, the MPA said that the textbook of class-V published under the supervision of Dr Umer Bin Mohammed Daudpoto in 1955 showed the Quaid’s birth place as Jherruk, a hilly tract village in Thatta.

Wazir Mansion (Karachi) in which the Quaid was said to have been born in 1876 did not exist then.

Dr Samiuddin Hyder, a medical officer, whose ancestors were residing in Jherruk during the year of Mr Jinnah’s birth and later his father, a doctor who graduated from the Darbangah Medical College Bihar, who also served in Jherruk in the days when Dr A.P.R. Pinto, first civil surgeon of Thatta, had already provided supporting documents on the issue, she added.

She said that the first Sindhi primary school established in Jherruk in 1873 was the alma mater of Quaid-i-Azam. Humera Alwani said that time was appropriate now that PPP should courageously make the historical facts correct.

The meeting also commended the unparallel sacrifices rendered by the Bhutto family.