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Daughter of Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1919–2017)

Dina Wadia (néeJinnah; 15 August 1919 – 2 November 2017) was the only child and daughter of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, and Rattanbai Petit.^[2][3][4]

Wadia belonged to some of the most prominent families of the Indian subcontinent, notably, the Jinnah family through her father and the Wadia family through her marriage to Neville Wadia in 1938.

Early life and background

Dina was born in London, shortly after midnight, on 15 August 1919, to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and his second wife, Rattanbai Petit (whose name was legally amended to "Maryam Jinnah" after her conversion to Islam and marriage, though she did not use her new name).^[5] As Stanley Wolpert's Jinnah of Pakistan records: "Oddly enough, precisely twenty-eight years to the day and hour before the birth of Jinnah's other offspring, Pakistan." Her premature arrival was unexpected Dina Wadia - Wikipedia MIZ