Early Life
See also: Jinnah familyDina was born in London shortly after midnight on the morning of August 15, 1919. Jinnah raised as a Muslim reading the Holy book Qur'an from her aunt Fatima Jinnah.
She is the daughter of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Maryam Jinnah, the step daughter of Emibai Jinnah and the niece of Fatima Jinnah and Shireen Jinnah.
Stanley Wolpert's Jinnah of Pakistan records: that " Her premature arrival was unexpected—her parents were at the theatre, but "were obliged to leave their box hurriedly." holidays. She was a dark-eyed beauty, lithe and winsome. She had her mother's smile and was pert or petulant as only an adored.
According to Wolpert, referring to Jinnah's time in London in 1930-33, "Dina was sole comfort, but Dina was away at school most of the time and home only for brief, pampered daughter could be to her doting father. He had two dogs, one formidable black Doberman, the other a white West Highland Terrier".
In November 1932, Jinnah read H. C. Armstrong's biography of Kemal Atatürk, Grey Wolf, and seemed to have found his own reflection in the story of Turkey's great modernist leader. It was all he talked about for a while at home, even to Dina, who consequently nicknamed him 'Grey Wolf'. Being only thirteen, her wayof pestering him to take her to High Road to see Punch and Judy was, "Come on, Grey Wolf, take me to a pantomime; after all, I am on my holidays."
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