A (Bara-Dari )Monument at Fatima Jinnah Park in IslamabadFatima Jinnah is most well known for her political support to her brother Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the leader of Muslim India, and founder of Pakistan but she did much more than that during her life. After the death of their father, Fatima was encouraged to finish school by her brother, and later went on to attend the Dr Ahmad Dental College in and opened her own dental practice in Calcutta when it was frowned upon by society for women to have a professional career. Although she was supported by her brother in this decision, most of the rest of her family was opposed to it. Later in life she joined the All India Muslim League and helped to form the All India Muslim Women Students Federation in 1941 in Delhi. She even went on to run for the Presidency of Pakistan in 1965. She died in 1967 of heart failure but it is speculated that she was actually murdered. Her legacy lives on in many schools and other national monuments that are named after her and in the political history of Pakistan. She will no doubt be a woman to look up to in the fight for women's rights for decades to come.
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