Jennifer Musa

Jennifer Musa

Infobox Person
name = Jennifer Musa


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birth_date = 11/11/1917
birth_place = Tarmons, County Kerry, Ireland
death_date =
death_place = Balochistan, Pakistan
other_names = Bridget Wren
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Jennifer Musa (November 11 1917 – January 13 2008) was an Irish-born nurse, Baloch nationalist, tribal leader and Pakistani politician cite web
url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/01/18/db1801.xml
title= Jennifer Musa: Irish nurse who became head of a tribe in Baluchistan and dedicated her life to its interests
date=18 January 2008
accessdate=2008-01-18
publisher=telegraph.co.uk
] often nicknamed the "Queen of Baluchistan". [cite web
title='Queen of Balochistan' passes away.
url=http://nation.com.pk/daily/jan-2008/13/index5.php
publisher=The Nation. Nawa-e-Waqt group
accessdate=2008-01-18
] .

Jennifer Musa was born in County Kerry in Ireland, she left Ireland to train as a nurse, in 1939 she met prominent Baloch politician Qazi Musa, brother of Qazi Isa, a prominent activist in the Pakistan Movement while studying at Oxford. Qasi Musa was the eldest son of the Prime Minister to the Khan of Kalat. Jennifer Musa took the name Jehan Zeba and married Qasi the following year.

After his sudden death in a car accident in 1956 Musa decided to settle permanently in her husband's home town of Pishin. She joined the National Awami Party and was elected to Pakistan's first Parliament in 1970. During that time she often clashed with the Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. [cite web
url=http://www.thingsasian.com/stories-photos/20733
title=Queen of Balochistan
author=Danny Kemp
date=December 2006
publisher=thingsasian.com
accessdate=2008-01-18
]

Children

She had five children; four sons and one daughter. One of her sons, Ashraf Musa, is a senior Pakistani diplomat.

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