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Two Mumbai doctors who guarded Jinnah's secret for decades set to receive Pakistan's highest civilian award

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Two Mumbai Parsi doctors are set to receive Pakistan's Nishan-e-Imtiaz. They are being recognised for keeping Muhammad Ali Jinnah's serious tuberculosis diagnosis confidential in 1946.

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Jinnah's deteriorating health in the days just before India's partition was one of those closely guarded secrets. Now, 78 years later, Pakistan is honoring two Parsi doctors from Bombay who treated the country's founding father and concealed his serious illness at a crucial juncture in history.

In the historical context of the formation of Pakistan, a medical secret kept by two doctors from Mumbai, India has now come to light. The Pakistani government has announced the award of the country's highest civilian award, the 'Nishan-e-Imtiaz', to the two doctors for keeping the details of the illness that led to the death of the late leader and father of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a secret in his final days. Renowned Mumbai-based doctor …

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India Today broke the news in Noida, India on Monday, August 17, 2026.
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