Bilquis Edhi

Bilquis was born at Bantva, Gujarat, in British India — so the English article's infobox and biography, the Arabic article, and the Urdu article's text agree; Wikidata and the Urdu infobox say Karachi, whither her family moved after Partition — and as a teenager who had not enjoyed school she joined the small Edhi dispensary in Karachi's Mithadar district as a nurse in 1965. Its founder, Abdul Sattar Edhi, recognised her enthusiasm through her six months' training in midwifery and basic healthcare and put her in charge of the nursing department; the two were married — the biography says she was nineteen, and the infobox dates the marriage to 1965. She took over the management of the jhoola project — the baby cradles her husband had begun in 1952 — and established more than 300 cradles across Pakistan where parents can leave unwanted infants rather than kill them; the cradles carry the message "Do not kill, leave the baby to live in the cradle", and over ninety per cent of the surrendered infants are girls. Among the children in her care was Geeta, a deaf-mute Indian girl stranded in Pakistan, whom she sheltered for years until her repatriation to India. In 2022 she was named among The Muslim 500. ^{1 2}

Bilquis Edhi died at the Aga Khan Hospital, Karachi, on 15 April 2022, aged 74, of congestive heart failure after a prolonged illness. Her funeral prayers were offered at New Memon Masjid and she was buried at Mewa Shah Graveyard, Karachi, on 16 April 2022; the Government of Sindh issued an official obituary and announced a day of mourning. ^{1 3}

Her faith is recorded as unknown, flagged for the founder, because the only religion material is her family's background and a rite performed for her. The English biography states that she was born "to Muslims" in Bantva and was "unusually, from a Muslim background" among the dispensary's mostly Christian and Hindu nurses — family background, which is never an attestation of the person's own affiliation. Her funeral prayers at a mosque attest the community's practice, not her school; her naming in The Muslim 500 is a listing; and Wikidata's only religion value is Islam, generically. No text names a school or records any statement of affiliation by her. ^{1 3 4}

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