Pakistan through history

Founding members of the All India Muslim League.
Source: Dawn/White Star Archives


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A very rare picture of under-construction Mazar-e-Quaid, and grave of first PM Khan Liaqat Ali Khan Karachi :


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Early heroes of freedom.
A group of Muslim leaders at Ahsan Manzil Palace in Dhaka with His Highness Nawab Sir Salimullah Standing 8th from the right & with Nawab Habibullah.
Date: 1892.
Courtesy Lahore Museum


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1947: Hindu refugees at Karachi dock as they prepare to ship out for new homes in Bombay
Photo Margaret Brouke-White.

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Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan (L), Hassan Imam (C) and Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah (R).
Courtesy & Photo credit: Arshad Hidayatullah

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Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, also known as ‘Baba-e-Jamhooriat’.

Nawabzada Nasarullah Khan played a very important role in the political history of Pakistan. Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan spent all his life in fighting against dictators, military as well as civilian, and struggled to strengthen the parliamentary democracy.

Nawabzada Nasarullah Khan was born on 13 November 1916 in Khangarh District in Central Punjab. He started his politics in 1930, when Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam was formed by Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari.

He was also elected as secretary general of All India Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam in 1945. He joined the Muslim League in 1947 after the partition. He won a seat in the 1952 provincial assembly election and in 1962 the National Assembly elections.

In 1964 he supported Fatema Jinnah in the election against president Ayub Khan. In 1966, he served as President of the All-Pakistan Awami League. He helped form the opposition alliance Democratic Action Committee to remove military dictator President Ayub Khan from power.

In 1993 He was elected again to the national assembly. He was also made the chairperson of the Kashmir Committee. Just before his death, he was the Chairman of Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) working for the restoration of democracy in Pakistan against Pervez Musharraf.



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Arrival ceremonies motorcade for President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, USA in 1961
 
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Quaid-e-Azam meeting with the representatives of non-Muslims in Dera Ismail Khan.
Date: 16 April 1948
 
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Firoz Khan Noon with Khwaja Nazimuddin and Liaquat Ali Khan
 
1951: Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan with her two sons mourning at the graveside of Liaquat Ali Khan in Karachi


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Manzur Qadir
(28 November 1913 - 12 October 1974)

Manzur Qadir was Foreign Minister Pakistan from 1958 - 1962 and Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court from 1962-1963.

Qadir also served as Chairman of the constitutional committee which eventually formulated the Constitution of Pakistan of 1962.



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Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah With Mohammad Abdul Latif, Pir Sahib Zakori Sharif At Dera Ismail khan In April 1948.


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Pir Abdul Latif Zakori (1914 - 1978)

Pir Sahib Zakori Sharif played a leading role in the 1945 NWFP Assembly elections and was instrumental in securing 17 seats for the Provincial Muslim League; himself returning from Lakki Marwat, Bannu District constituency.

During the crucial phase of Pakistan Movement he faced bravely a lot of hardships and imprisonment on many occasions. During the \'Civil Disobedience Movement\' he hoisted the Pakistan Muslim League flag after removing the Union Jack from the Deputy Commissioner's House in Bannu and was arrested soon after leading a procession against the British Rule. The arrest of Pir Sahib turned into a great public uproar and a large number of his followers turned up for voluntary arrest which almost filled the entire jails of NWFP; resultantly temporary prison houses had to be arranged at Serai Naurang, Bannu, and other places to lodge the protestors.

On his release on June 3,1947 he preceded to New Delhi on the special invitation of Quaid-e-Azam to participate in the All India Muslim League Council meeting at Imperial Hotel. He delivered there an impressive and forceful speech. Quaid-e-Azam had a great faith in Pir Sahibs political acumen and sagacity and reposed a great confidence in him to turn the forthcoming \'Referendum\' in NWFP a success.

Pir Sahib Zakori Sharif did, indeed, come to the high expectations of the Quaid and worked so tirelessly for the NWFP Referendum that the Quaid-e-Azam addressed him as \"Fateh Referendum\".

He was one of those luminaries of the Pakistan Movement who laid the foundation of Muslim League in NWFP and nullified the hold of all India Congress and other Anti-Pakistan forces in the Province. He remained a member of the NWFP Assembly from 1945 to 1950.

He died on February 2.,1978 depriving the Country of a great freedom fighter and leaving millions of his followers to mourn his death.

To commemorate the Pioneers of Freedom (Series) Pakistan Postal Services Corporation is issuing a set of three commemorative postage stamps of Re. 1/- denomination on August 14,1993
 

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