India, Aug. 19 -- Two Parsi doctors from Maharashtra's Mumbai will reportedly receive Pakistan's highest civilian award posthumously for keeping the illness Mof the country's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a secret.

The doctors - physician Dr Jal Ratanji Patel and radiologist Dr Jal Dhaybho-Koo - have been nominated by Islamabad for the Nishan-e-Imtiaz award, which will be conferrred on them at a ceremony in March, 2027. The announcement was made on social media platform X by Ahsan Iqbal, federal minister for planning, development and special initiatives and head of the Awards Committee.

Both doctors had examined Jinnah's X-ray in 1946, and had diagnosed him with an advanced stage of tuberculosis, concluding that he had only a year or tw...