
Aug 18, 2026
✦Zee News
Jinnah's secret TB illness: Could this have stopped India's partition?
Two Parsi doctors who kept Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s terminal illness secret in 1946 will receive Pakistan’s highest civilian honour. Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal said, "If information about Jinnah's illness had become known, it is possible that the Partition of India could have been avoided." Their silence changed history for many people.