I compiled a few facts (from a few newspaper articles) on Fatima Jinnah’s 1951 speech, 1965 elections, her book ‘My Brother’ & her death on this day 53 years ago (THREAD):
Fatima Jinnah was one of the founders of Pakistan, a stateswoman, a dental surgeon who left dental practice in 1929 to join his brother in his mission, and a presidential candidate in 1965.
Miss Jinnah’s radio speech was interrupted in 1951. Z.A. Bukhari, controller of broadcasting, wrote an apology letter to her,

‘I once again heartily apologise over the technical problem during your speech broadcast last night. We encountered a technical fault in our generators.’
To this Fatima Jinnah replied (selective lines):

“On the 11th of September, you had requested the copy of the broadcast which was duly sent to you at 7:00pm. At 8:00pm you had called on me at my residence in a stressful condition...
With sad expressions, you had requested that I omit certain parts of my speech. To which I had replied, sans any emotional aspiration, that if one does not enjoy the freedom of expression in a democratic country, I would like to withdraw my speech instead of changing it...
It is also a matter of wonderment for me that the very sentences that you requested to omit from the speech were the ones which could not be broadcast due to the technical problem...
It seems your transmitters are very obedient and submissive as they are always ready to create technical problems in order to facilitate you...
The people who tried to create problems in my original speech, and stopped my voice from reaching the people, and tried to omit certain sentences of my speech, have in fact highlighted the importance (of these sentences) to the people.”
(Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah: Speeches, Messages and Statements (1947-67))

When Fatima Jinnah could no longer bear the decline of the country she helped found, she entered the arena, running for the presidency at age 71, against Field Marshall Ayub Khan in the 1965 Pres Elections.
Fatima Jinnah held popular rallies during her campaign in both east and west Pakistan. Field marshal Ayub had to bring elections forward two months ‘to break her bandwagon’.
Fatima Jinnah held popular rallies during her campaign in both east and west Pakistan. Field marshal Ayub had to bring elections forward two months ‘to break her bandwagon’.
Fatima Jinnah held popular rallies during her campaign in both east and west Pakistan. Field marshal Ayub had to bring elections forward two months ‘to break her bandwagon’.
Madr-e-Millat was dubbed a foreign agent. Full page govt ads claimed “Miss Fatima Jinnah was greeted in Peshawar with the slogans of “Pukhtoonistan Zindabad’. She was accused of conspiring against Pakistan alongside Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan by trying to establish Pashtunistan.
Madr-e-Millat was dubbed a foreign agent. Full page govt ads claimed “Miss Fatima Jinnah was greeted in Peshawar with the slogans of “Pukhtoonistan Zindabad’. She was accused of conspiring against Pakistan alongside Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan by trying to establish Pashtunistan.
Madr-e-Millat was dubbed a foreign agent. Full page govt ads claimed “Miss Fatima Jinnah was greeted in Peshawar with the slogans of “Pukhtoonistan Zindabad’. She was accused of conspiring against Pakistan alongside Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan by trying to establish Pashtunistan.
Ayub Khan narrowly won the elections. Eighty thousand Basic Democrats constituted the electoral college for the election; most had been bought over long before the actual voting exercise took place.
One of the best and most authentic accounts of Fatima Jinnah’s disappointments arrived in the shape of a book that she wrote in 1955 (My Brother) but which was published 32 years later in 1987!
In her book Miss Jinnah laments how heartlessly her brother was picked up and put in an ambulance (to be taken to a hospital) and how the ambulance broke down in the middle of the road.
She wrote that her brother told her that many of his former colleagues were coming to meet him only to determine how much life there was left in him, implying that they were most probably waiting for him to quietly perish.
Sharifuddin Pirzada (who was a secretary to Jinnah), in saying that when Miss Jinnah appeared on Radio Pakistan to announce her brother’s death, the state-owned radio channel’s director-general, Z A. Bokhari, got a call from a government official asking him to switch off...
...Miss Jinnah’s speech the moment she began criticising the government’s heartless attitude towards the founder of the country and how he was left to die in an old ambulance. (Pakistan Behind The Ideological Mask)
On July 9, 1967. The government announced her passing due to a heart-attack but to this day a number of politicians, and even Jinnah’s nephew Akber Pirbhai, insist that she was murdered.

@hyzaidi @titojourno
@Maria_Memon https://www.dawn.com/news/1159181 
How Fatima Jinnah died — an unsolved criminal case

Various historical sources record how hostile forces stopped at nothing in creating hurdles for the Maadar-e-Millat.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1159181
These are the articles that I read this from:

https://www.dawn.com/news/1493578 
https://www.dawn.com/news/1162928 
https://www.geo.tv/amp/230678-forgetting-fatima
https://www.dawn.com/news/1103505 
Fatima’s election

Back in 1965, Ms Jinnah was hardly a darling of the establishment.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1493578
Interestingly, in 1958, Ms Fatima Jinnah had expressed satisfaction over the dismissal of the Iskandar Mirza government by Ayub Khan. A few major reasons were political instability, authoritarianism and corruption. Those were times of social and economic troubles.
She said, “General Ayub Khan’s government is the beginning of a new era. The armed forces have taken up the responsibility of eradicating social ills and electoral rigging and other misdemeanours, so that the situation in the country can be normalised and the people can have...
trust, security and stability...We have a mission in front of us that we eliminate all those powers that have imposed themselves upon us, and that we bring the country back to stabilisation so that we can carry on treading the path of true democracy’’
Little she did know at that moment what Ayub’s dictatorship would bring & that she’d be contesting against him in 1965. Likewise Ayub didn’t feel threatened by Miss Jinnah until later.
https://twitter.com/hareemsumbul/status/1281475518106234885?s=21 https://twitter.com/hareemsumbul/status/1281475518106234885
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