Jennifer Musa

Jennifer Musa, born Bridget Jennifer Wren in 1917 at Tarmons, Tarbert, County Kerry, Ireland, was an Irish-born Pakistani nurse, politician and social worker, remembered in Balochistan as the Queen of Baluchistan and Mummy Jennifer. She trained as a nurse from 1936 to 1940 at Southgate Isolation Hospital in London and registered with the General Nursing Council in 1940. At Oxford she met Qazi Muhammad Musa, a Baloch politician, took the name Jehan Zeba and married him the following year. The couple moved to Pakistan in 1948. After her husband died in a car accident in 1956 she settled in his hometown of Pishin, joined the National Awami Party and was elected to Pakistan's first Parliament in 1970. She later founded the Pishin Women's Association to help poor young girls in the region. She lived in Balochistan for about sixty years until her death on 12 January 2008, and a plaque in her honour was unveiled in Tarbert in 2024.