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Did Jinnah Refuse To Meet Liaquat Ali Khan On His Deathbed?

This document summarizes and critiques claims made in Professor K.K. Aziz's book about the relationship between Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan. It argues that Aziz falsely claimed that Jinnah refused to meet Liaquat on his deathbed, contradicting first-hand accounts and Fatima Jinnah's own notes. The document also notes that Aziz misquoted another source, and provides context that Col. Ilahi Bakhsh refusing to share details about Jinnah's illness with Liaquat was standard policy, not due to Jinnah's dislike of Liaquat. It speculates that Aziz, who was ejected from Pakistan, included falsehoods in his book to undermine Pakistan

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Did Jinnah Refuse To Meet Liaquat Ali Khan On His Deathbed?

This document summarizes and critiques claims made in Professor K.K. Aziz's book about the relationship between Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan. It argues that Aziz falsely claimed that Jinnah refused to meet Liaquat on his deathbed, contradicting first-hand accounts and Fatima Jinnah's own notes. The document also notes that Aziz misquoted another source, and provides context that Col. Ilahi Bakhsh refusing to share details about Jinnah's illness with Liaquat was standard policy, not due to Jinnah's dislike of Liaquat. It speculates that Aziz, who was ejected from Pakistan, included falsehoods in his book to undermine Pakistan

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Did Jinnah Refuse to Meet Liaquat

Ali Khan on his Deathbed?


This is the second episode of my critique of Professor K.K. Aziz’s book ‘Murder of History’. As I
discussed in episode 1, Aziz himself makes mistakes in that book while correcting those of Pakistani
textbooks. We will now focus on the claim made on page 9 of the book where Aziz states that Jinnah
refused to meet Liaquat on his deathbed when the latter came to visit him.
First-hand accounts of Jinnah’s last days are available from many of those who stayed with him then.
These include Fatima Jinnah papers at National Archives Pakistan, the book ‘My Brother’ she co-
authored with G. Allana, Jinnah’s physician Lt. Col Ilahi Bakhsh’s book, his companion Dr. Riaz Ali
Shah’s book and accounts of Jinnah’s ADC Noor Hussain Shah and assistant Farrukh Amin. In none of
these is it mentioned that Jinnah refused to meet Liaquat.
Aziz interestingly claims that it is in Fatima Jinnah’s “My brother” where it is stated that Jinnah refused
to meet Liaquat. However, the book states that Jinnah did allow Liaquat to meet him. See pages 29 and
30 of the book printed by Peace Publications in 2016. Fatima Jinnah’s own hand-written notes in
National Archives of Pakistan also describe Jinnah allowing Liaquat to meet him. Therefore, it is an
outright falsification on the part of Aziz.
On the same page Aziz says that M.A.H. Ispahani said that Liaquat Ali Khan did not take the files to
the Governor General for personal discussion but sent them by the hand of his secretary. But this quote
is not found in Ispahani’s book ‘Quaid-i-Azam Jinnah As I Knew Him’. Nor Z.H. Zaidi’s ‘Ispahani-
Jinnah Correspondence’. If you see my video made about the weeks preceding Jinnah’s death, I debunk
many of the myths surrounding that tragedy, including the one that Liaquat and Jinnah had problems
before the latter died. I also discuss how ‘My brother’ is different from hand-written notes of Fatima
Jinnah, whereby in the latter a more positive image of Liaquat and Jinnah’s last meeting is presented.
Since we’re discussing this topic let us shed light on another point. ‘My brother’ states that Jinnah’s
physician Col Ilahi Bakhsh refused to tell Liaquat the details of Jinnah’s illness. Some commentators
have taken this to mean that Jinnah was angry with Liaquat. However, if we see M.A.H Ispahani’s
aforementioned book (page 271) we will see that even Ispahani, who was undoubtedly close to Quaid,
was refused this information by Ilahi Bakhsh. This was a matter of policy not Jinnah’s likes and
dislikes.
Why Aziz resorted to such outright fabrications? He was ejected from Pakistan in 1980s which left him
very bitter and so he wrote this book where such falsehoods are mixed with truths to strike a blow at
the very identity of Pakistan and its reason for existence in order to take revenge from Pakistani state.
In future episodes you will see how even Jinnah was not spared from undue criticism.

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