| 词条 | Mian Iftikharuddin |
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|name=Mian Iftikharuddin |birth_date=8 April 1907 |birth_place= Lahore, Punjab, British Raj |death_date = 6 June 1962 |death_place = Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |occupation = Political activist |known for = Founder and owner of Pakistan Times newspaper, Urdu language newspaper Imroze and the magazine Lail-o-Nahar, all 3 from Lahore, Pakistan[1] |alma_mater = Aitchison College University of Oxford | years active = 1930s – 1962 | movement = Set a new progressive trend in journalism in Pakistan in the 1940s }}Mian Iftikharuddin (میاں افتخارالدین in Urdu) (8 April 1907 - 6 June 1962) was a politician of British India and later Pakistan. He was a leading activist of the Indian National Congress, who later joined the All-India Muslim League and worked for the cause of Pakistan under the leadership of Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.[1] Early lifeMian Muhammad Iftikharuddin was born on 8 April 1907 in Baghbanpura, Lahore to the wealthy Arain Mian family, the custodians of the Shalimar Gardens, Lahore.[1] His relations included Sir Mian Muhammad Shafi and Sir Mian Abdul Rashid.[1] Mian Iftikharuddin was educated at Aitchison College and the University of Oxford.[5][1] Political careerIndian National CongressMian Iftikharuddin joined the Congress Party in 1936. He was elected to the Punjab Provincial Assembly in 1937 and became the President of the Punjab Provincial Congress in 1940, serving in that position until 1945.[5][1] He was a member of the All India Congress Committee from the 1930s to the mid 1940s.[2] Iftikharuddin was very close to Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1937, he was instrumental in introducing the Kashmir leader Sheikh Abdullah to Nehru.[3] Iftikharuddin opposed the Muslim League's Lahore Resolution and declared that "“any attempt at disrupting the unity of [India's] spirit is a betrayal of the history of a thousand years.” However, by 1942, he was supporting C. Rajagopalachari's formula for granting the Pakistan demand, which was rejected by Congress Working Committee. In 1945, Iftikharuddin resigned from the Congress Party and joined the Muslime League.[4][1] Muslim LeagueIftikharuddin joined the All India Muslim League in September 1945.{{sfn|Jalal, Self and Sovereignty|2002|p=451}} His palatial ancestral home in Baghbanpura was used for training Muslim League National Guards.{{sfn|Jalal, Self and Sovereignty|2002|p=489}} He was elected to the Punjab Provincial Assembly in 1946 as a Muslim League member, and led the civil disobedience movement against the Unionist government of Khizar Hayat Tiwana.[1] After the June 3 plan for partition of India was announced, Jinnah looked increasingly towards young men like Iftikharuddin to help Pakistan stand on its own feet.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} Iftikharuddin was elected the first president of the Punjab Provincial Muslim League after the Independence of Pakistan in 1947. He was also apopinted as the Minister for rehabilitation of refugees in the Government of Punjab.[5][5] Pakistan TimesIftikharuddin was the owner of the Pakistan Times, a newspaper started by the leftists in the Muslim League to create a balance to the centrist Muslim League mouthpiece Dawn newspaper as well as the Hindu press in pre-1947 British India.[6] Kashmir conflictIn 1947, Iftikharuddin played a key role in the development of the Kashmir conflict. The Muslim Conference leader Sardar Ibrahim narrated that he went Lahore on 28 August 1947 seeking Pakistan's help for the rebellion in Poonch. After a week's efforts, Ibrahim finally met Iftikharuddin, who lent a sympathetic ear. Then Iftikharuddin went to Srinagar to make his own enquiries. Sardar Ibrahim says that he came back convinced on all the points made by him.{{sfn|Ibrahim Khan, The Kashmir Saga|1990|pp=69–70}} According to General Akbar Khan's narrative, Iftikharuddin was asked to go to Srinagar to assess Pakistan's prospects in acquiring Kashmir's accession. On his way, he met General Akbar Khan vacationing in Murree and asked him to prepare a plan to help Kashmiri Muslims to take action against possible accession of Kashmir to India.[17][18] He then speent a week in Srinagar, and came back convinced that the Maharaja was intending to accede to India and Pakistan needed to help the Muslims of Kashmir to fight for freedom.[7] Meanwhile, Akbar Khan created a plan titled "Armed Revolt inside Kashmir", which was then passed on to the Prme Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and other senior officials. A meeting was called under the leadership of the Prme Minister on 12 September 1947, where this plan as well as another plan prepared by Sardar Shaukat Hayat Khan for organising a tribal invasion of Kashmir were discussed and approved.[8][9] After Sheikh Abdullah was released from prison, at the beginning of October 1947, Iftikharuddin went to Srinagar again in order to persuade Abdullah on accession to Pakistan. Abdullah agreed to meet Pakistani leaders and accompanied him to Lahore. However, the Governor General Muhammad Ali Jinnah refused to meet Abdullah and the mission failed. Iftikharuddin was dejected and concluded, 'Kashmir is lost to us'.{{sfn|Taseer, The Kashmir of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah|1986|pp=300–301}} Soon afterwards the tribal invasion was launched and Iftikharuddin played no more role in the Kashmir conflict.{{sfn|Ibrahim Khan, The Kashmir Saga|1990|p=70}} Government of West PunjabIftikharuddin briefly served as Minister for Rehabiilitation of Refugees in the provincial government of Punjab in 1947.[10][2] In 1949, as a minister, he proposed radical land reforms in the Punjab, however this led to a backlash from the land-owning feudal leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League under the leadership of Nawab Iftikhar Hussain Khan Mamdot, a big landowner himself. In frustration, Iftikharuddin resigned from his Ministry in 1949 and was formally expelled from the Muslim League in 1951. Iftikharuddin was the only Muslim member in the parliament house who opposed the 'objectives resolution' as he felt that the resolution was vague. He further suggested that such a resolution should be the decision of the 70 million people of Pakistan. This resolution was also disapproved by minorities’ leaders Prem Hari, Chandra Mandal and Kumar Dutta. However, he chose to vote in favour of the resolution, because he was assured that minorities will have all the rights and privileges in an Islamic state.[11] Political activismLater he jumped off the Muslim League ship, and formed his own ‘Azad Pakistan Party’ committed to liberal secularism in the country. Though big names like Dr. Khan Sahib and the Khudai Khidmatgars were attracted to it, Azad Pakistan Party soon faded away in history. He was also considered a leading light of the National Awami Party as well. His Pakistan Times newspaper continued to promote social justice and agrarian reforms in Pakistan, it attracted many well known leftists including its first editor Faiz Ahmad Faiz. However, in 1959, following the military take over by Ayub Khan, the newspaper was taken over by the government and despite a legal challenge, he failed to obtain either compensation or the return of ownership of his newspaper.[12] Since he was an advocate of an independent foreign policy, free from demented generals and Pakistan's exit from The Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO), the Baghdad Pact also called CENTO and other defense treaties, it was expected from his opponents to label him as 'a stranger in the house'.[11] LifeMian Iftikharuddin was married to Begum Ismat Iftikharuddin. According to Azad Kashmir civil servant and writer Abdul Haq Suharwardy, Begum Ismat and General Akbar Khan's wife, Nasim Shah Nawaz (later Nasim Jahan), were cousins.[13] The couple lived in a mansion at 21 Aikman Road, which they bought from the Raja of Mandi.[14] They had two children: Sohair Iftikhar and Arif Iftikhar.[10] Iftikharuddin died at the age of 54, after suffering a heart attack on 6 June 1962.[10] Pakistan's famous poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Iftikharuddin’s friend and ally, paid a tribute to him through his poetry[11] "Jo rukey tu koh-e-garan thay hum, jo chalay tu jaan say guzar gaye, Raah-e-yaar hum ne qadam qadam, tujhay yaadgaar banaa diya." Translation: "I was a mountain when I stopped And when I moved I sacrificed my being O path to my beloved, I have, step by step Turned you into a memorial" See also
References1. ^ Firoz Khan Noon (Malik Sir), (1966) From Memory, Ferozsons, p.197 2. ^1 {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o0bzjwEACAAJ|title=Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan, 1947-1972|author=Kamran Asdar Ali|year=2015|isbn=978-0-19-940308-0|page=323}} 3. ^{{cite book |last=Hussain |first=Syed Taffazull |title=Sheikh Abdullah-A Biography: The Crucial Period 1905-1939. 2016 Edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7RwFAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA293 |date=2016 |publisher=Syed Taffazull Hussain |isbn=978-1-60481-603-7 |pages=293–}} 4. ^{{cite book |last=Gandhi |first=Rajmohan |title=Rajaji: A Life |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45pYCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT243 |date=14 October 2010 |publisher=Penguin Books Limited |isbn=978-93-85890-33-8 |pages=243–}} 5. ^Speeches and Statements of Mian Iftikharuddin, (1971) Edited by Abdullah Malik, Lahore. 6. ^1 2 3 Remembering Mian Iftikharuddin, Dawn (newspaper), Published 8 December 2012, Retrieved 25 July 2017 7. ^{{citation |last=Suharwardy |first=Abdul Haq |title=Tragedy in Kashmir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wjRuAAAAMAAJ |year=1983 |publisher=Wajidalis |location=Lahore |p=202}} 8. ^1 {{citation |first=Shuja |last=Nawaz |title=The First Kashmir War Revisited |journal=India Review |volume=7 |number=2 |pp=115–154 |DOI=10.1080/14736480802055455 |date=May 2008 |subscription=yes}} 9. ^1 {{citation |last=Raghavan |first=Srinath |title=War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of the Nehru Years |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbtBJb1bsHUC&pg=PA101 |date=2010 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-00737-7 |pages=105–106}} 10. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Shahid Saeed, Profile of Mian Iftikharuddin, The Friday Times (newspaper), Published 18 February 2011, Retrieved 25 July 2017 11. ^1 2 Profile of Mian Iftikharuddin, The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 15 May 2016, Retrieved 25 July 2017 12. ^Judging the State: Courts and Constitutional Politics in Pakistan, by Paula R. Newberg {{ISBN|0-521-89440-9}} 13. ^{{citation |last=Suharwardy |first=Abdul Haq |title=Kashmir: The Incredible Freedom-fight |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFtuAAAAMAAJ |year=1991 |publisher=Jang Publishers |p=202}} 14. ^{{citation |title=The Concept, Volume 26, Issues 1-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j-NtAAAAMAAJ |year=2006 |publisher=Raja Afsar Khan |p=18}} Bibliography
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