Jinnah's daughter Dina Wadia passes away at 98

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Dina Wadia, the sole daughter of Pakistan's creator Muhammed Ali Jinnah, breathed her last at her New York residence on Thursday.

The 98-year-old's son, industrialist Nusli Wadia and grandsons Ness Wadia and Jehangir Wadia issued a statement which said that Dina Wadia died "peacefully" due to ill health.

"She is survived by her daughter Diana, son Nusli, her grandsons, Ness and Jeh, Jeh’s wife Celina and two great-grandchildren, Jah and Ella Wadia," the statement read.

She was born in 1919, shortly after midnight on August 15, the same day her father gave birth to Pakistan in 1947. She is believed to have had strained ties with her father for marrying a non-muslim, Neville Wadia who was a Parsi-born Indian.

Media rumours indicated an extremely formal father-daughter relationship after Dina's marriage. She visited Pakistan only twice after her marriage, during Jinnah's funeral at Karachi in September 1984 and in 2004 to watch an India-Pakistan cricket match in Lahore.

Dina, who had mostly shied away from the public eye came to the forefront again after she made claims to her father's mansion called 'South Court' or 'Jinnah House' in Mumbai. The South Court property which was declared as an evacuee property with Pakistan's interest of acquiring it was challenged by Dina in 2007.