Sibi - Baluchistan
Muhammad Ali Jinnah Governor General of Pakistan, acknowledging the greetings of representatives of the Hindu Panchayat at Sibi, where he held Shahi Durbar, or Royal Durbar.
February 14, 1948
Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah shakes hands with Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar at Mauripur Airport Karachi upon his return from Quetta. To his left is Ch. Muhammad Ali later pm of Pakistan.
Truly a hero. Defeated Brits and Congress to protect Muslim minority and yet was heartbroken to see India partitioned and millions killed in the mayhem created by British incompetence and indifference. Difficult to believe he was going through a personal health battle through all this in his ripe old age of 73 and had been given a mere six months by his physicians two years earlier in 1945. He was 5'10" tall and weighed under 100 around the time of this picture!
Governor-General M A Jinnah meeting KB Haji Arbab Ahmed Ali Jan Khan the first local Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar/Political Agent Mohmand after Independence. IG Police and Chief Secretary NWFP are standing prior to Haji Arbab Ahmad Ali.
Date: 1948