<\/span><\/h3>\nShe was the only daughter of Pakistan’s founder and leader of Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Maryam Jinnah (Rattanbai Petit). Dina belonged to a strong background, to an influential ‘Jinnah Family’ via her father, ‘Petit Family,’ via her mother, and to \u2018Wadia Family\u2019 via her marriage to an Indian philanthropist and Businessman Neville Ness.<\/p>\n
Her paternal grandfather Poonja Jinnah was a successful businessman and belonged to the ‘Khoja’ caste. Her maternal grandparents’ family were ‘Parsi,’ and after their daughter, Rattanbai’s married Muhammad Ali Jinnah and accepted, they disowned their daughter.<\/p>\n
In the mid-1870s, Jinnah\u2019s parents left Gujarat and settled in Karachi to start their business. Jinnah and her sister Fatima Jinnah are prominent historical personalities who began the ‘Pakistan Movement.’ Their efforts resulted in Pakistan’s establishment on 14th<\/sup> August 1947, and Jinnah became its 1st<\/sup> Governor-General. Titles ‘Mother of Nation’ and ‘Father of Nation’ were bestowed to Fatima and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.<\/p>\n<\/span>Marriage and Conflicts with Father<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nHer desire to marry a Parses born Indian philanthropist and businessman Neville Wadia troubled her relation with her father. Jinnah tried to convince her, but all his attempts failed. He said to her daughter that she could choose any Muslim boy in India but she replied that Rattanbai was also a Parsi and non-Muslim.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Chagla\u2019s Statement Regarding Dina\u2019s Relations with Jinnah <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nJinnah\u2019s then-associate M.C. Chagla has described in ‘Roses in December’ his autobiography that he said that you aren’t my daughter now upon Dina’s marriage to Neville. However, this story is contentious as some sources reported that Jinnah sent his driver to deliver a bouquet to Dina.<\/p>\n
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<\/span>Deprived of Jinnah’s Property<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nAccording to the Pakistani constitution, a person who violates Islamic laws (as Dina, a Muslim woman married a Non-Muslim) should be disinherited. So, her claims on properties of Jinnah in Pakistan weren’t entertained.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Separation from Neville<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nShe settled in Bombay and blessed with a daughter and a son. This marriage didn’t last long, and the couple got separated in 1943. As divorce was an illegal act at that time in India, so they didn’t formally divorce.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Interview to Hamid Mir<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nDue to her marriage, the daughter-father relationship became immensely formal, and Jinnah used to call her ‘Mrs. Wadia.’ It is also controversial as Dina called it a rumor. In her interview with famous anchorperson Hamid Mir, she stated, ‘My father wasn’t a dominating father, but he was a kind father.<\/p>\n
In 1946 I met her for the last time in Bombay, and when I was leaving, he hugged my son. And he put his grey cap on the head of Nusli and said, Keep it, boy.’<\/p>\n
<\/span>Dina\u2019s Letter to Jinnah<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nAfter Dina’s death, her diary unveiled that the daughter-father relation wasn’t formal. They had been reunited as a happy family, and she visited Pakistan on the demise of her father and later in 2004 at the Pak-India cricket match. On 28th<\/sup> April 1947, in her letter to Jinnah, she said:<\/p>\n\u2018My dear father, 1st<\/sup> of all I congratulate you-that you achieved Pakistan, you worked very hard for it. I receive news about you from Bombay’s local newspapers. Children have started recovering from a cough, and I am taking children to Juhu for a month. Would you Come back? If yes, then come to Juhu and spend time with us. I will call you to meet you if you don’t have a plan to come. Papa darling takes care. Lots of kisses and love, Dina.<\/p>\n![\"dina](\"https:\/\/www.pakpedia.pk\/files\/Image\/166038_040252_updates.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
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<\/span>Dina\u2019s Visit to Pakistan<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nIn 2004 she came to Lahore, Pakistan, to enjoy a match between India and Pakistan. Wadia, along with her son Nusli, and grandsons Jehangir and Ness, visited her father’s Mausoleum to offer prayers. She wrote in visitors’ book ‘It has been regrettable and amazing for me. May my father’s dream come true.’<\/p>\n
According to reports, she requested copies of those three pictures that she saw in the antiquities room in Mausoleum. The one-shot is her mother Rattanbai’s painting; in the other one, she is with her aunt Fatima and her father. In the 3rd<\/sup> picture, Jinnah is reading out a letter showing his political personality. She also visited her aunt’s tomb and Pakistan Flagstaff House to hoist the Pakistani flag.<\/p>\n<\/span>Dina Wadia Death <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nShe breathed her last at her house in \u2018Madison Avenue\u2019 in NYC on 2nd<\/sup> November 2017 from pneumonia at 98. Pakistani people deeply mourned her death and described it as \u2018Grief of the Nation.\u2019<\/p>\nSeveral political figures, including then-President and PM of Pakistan, gave official statements and said Pakistani people greatly admired and respected her. Sindh Assembly offered Surat Fatiha for the departed soul and also observed 1-minute silence in Dina\u2019s remembrance.<\/p>\n
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