From Symbol to Strategist: Reassessing Fatima Jinnah’s Political Agency in the 1965 Presidential Election

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2024
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Abstract
This study reassesses Fatima Jinnah’s political agency in the 1965 presidential election against Field Marshal Ayub Khan. Existing scholarship often remembers her as Madar-e-Millat and as Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s symbolic sister, while giving less attention to her strategic judgment, gendered resistance, and democratic opposition. The article applies a qualitative historical-analytical method, using election studies, feminist historiography, published primary materials, contemporary press reports, and secondary readings of the Fatima Jinnah Papers. The study finds that her candidacy involved calculated acceptance, constitutional rhetoric, national mobilization, careful handling of religious opposition, and principled resistance to an electoral system controlled by Basic Democracies. Future research should examine the Fatima Jinnah Papers directly, add Urdu and Bengali press evidence, compare her strategy with later women leaders, and move beyond commemorative biography toward evidence-based studies of Pakistani democratic opposition within South Asian civil-military conflict and gendered political memory debates more broadly.
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Authors Maria Javed, Ghulam Shabbir, Madiha Abbas
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Journal Annals of Human and Social Sciences
Year 2024
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10.35484/ahss.2024(5-IV)68
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https://ojs.ahss.org.pk/journal/article/view/1256
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