Two Mumbai doctors to receive Pakistan’s top civilian award for keeping Jinnah illness secret

Islamabad: Two doctors - a physician and a radiologist - of Mumbai's Parsi community will receive Pakistan's highest civilian award, Nishan-e-Imtiaz, for keeping secret Muhammad Ali Jinnah's terminal illness, according to a federal minister.

Planning minister Ahsan Iqbal disclosed this in a post on X. "I feel honoured to have had the privilege, as chairman of the awards committee, of nominating for Nishan-e-Imtiaz two remarkable doctors, a physician and a radiologist, both members of Bombay's Parsi community, who faithfully guarded the secret of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's terminal illness," he said.

Elaborating on the importance of their act, Iqbal said that any revelation about the frail health of Jinnah could have impacted the creation of Pakistan in 1947.