Nusrat Khanum [Lady Abdullah Haroon]

She is the daughter of Dr. Haji Khan and was born in 1896 in Iran. Later, her parents migrated to India and settled in Karachi where in 1914, she was married to Seth (later Sir) Abdullah Haroon. She took keen interest in female education and other social problems. To educate Muslim girls she started a school at her home and also founded a female organisation, known as Anjuman-i-Khawatin, to improve the conditions of women in Sindh.

In 1919, she entered the political field and worked as an ardent supporter of the Khilafat Movement in her Province. After the failure of the Khilafat Movement, she did not end her activities but continued to work for the women's uplift. With the opening of the franchise question, she opened a new front to protect women's rights.

In 1938, she was nominated on the Women's Central Sub, Committee of the All-India Muslim League and was also elected president of the sindh provincial women's sub-committee. Actually the formation of the Sindh provincial sub-committee was due to the efforts of Lady Abdullah Haroon who worked incessantly for bringing Muslim women under the banner of the League. She was also taken on the working committee of the provincial Muslim league and during the 1946 elections, she worked indefatigably for the League.

Apart from her activities as President of the provincial women's sub-sommittee, she worked as treasurer of the women's central sub-committee. In 1943-44, she was elected president of the central sub-committee and held this office until 1947. She was a very successful housewife in whom her husband found all he longed for. He once admitted that "his wife had a great share in making him what he was: Nusrat had completed his life and he was the happiest, luckiest and most contented man on earth."