Maulana Muhammad Ali Jouhar
Maulana Muhammad Ali was born in Rampur state in 1878, in a wealthy and enlightened family of Pathans. His father died when he was two...
Read MoreSyed Ata-ullah Shah Bukhari
Syed Ata-ullah Shah Bukhari was born in Patna (India) on September 23, 1892. He got his early religious education in Gujrat and learnt the...
Read MoreAllama Inayatullah Mashriqi
Allama Inayatullah Mashriqi was born in a respectable and well-to-do Rajput family in Amritsar on August 25, 1888. His ancestors held...
Read MoreMian Fazl-i-Husain
Mian Fazl-i-Husain was born on July 14, 1877 in an old, respectable Rajput family. His father Khan Bahadur Hussain Bakhsh started his...
Read MoreSir Mian Muhammad Shafi
Mian Muhammad Shafi was born on March 10, 1869 in the town of Baghbanpura at Lahore in a well-off family. His father Mian Mohammad Din who...
Read MoreDr. M. A. Ansari
Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari was born in December 1880 in a prominent family of Yusufpur in the Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh. He was a...
Read MoreMaulana Abul Kalam Azad
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born in Mecca in 1888 and lived there till he was about seven. His father Khairuddin, a scholar-sufi and pir...
Read MoreMaulana Zafar Ali Khan
Maulana Zafar Ali Kahn was one of the most eminent leaders of the freedom movement from Punjab. The man with extraordinary abilities...
Read MoreQuaid-i-Azam and the Reorganization of Muslim League
The Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was thoroughly disappointed by the anti Muslim attitude of the Indian National...
Read MoreThe Khaksar Movement
The Khaksar Movement was a paramilitary organization, which was introduced by Allama Inayatullah Mashriqi in a chaotic situation of the...
Read MoreThe Ahrar Movement (Majlis-i-Ahrar-i-Islam)
A number of nationalist Muslims of Punjab, mainly religious leaders, called themselves “Ahrars” who organized Majlis-i-Ahrar-i-Islam....
Read MoreThe Unionist Party
Mian Fazl-i-Hussain and Chhotu Ram laid the foundation of the Punjab National Unionist Party in 1923. It was originated by a group of rural...
Read MoreKhudai Khidmatgar Movement
Khudai Khidmatgar Movement was organized by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan popularly known as Bacha khan, on a non-violence approach to the...
Read MoreShaheed Gunj Mosque Incident
The Shahidganj mosque, located in Landa bazaar outside Delhi gate at Lahore, was considered as the holy place for both Muslims and Sikhs....
Read MoreThe Massacre of Jallianwala Bagh
After the Lucknow Pact of 1916 both Hindus and Muslims started their struggle for the self-rule for India. It was a brief period of...
Read MoreHijrat Movement
The Hijrat Movement was a by-product of the Khilafat Movement. In the summer of 1920 suggestions were made by the local bodies representing...
Read MoreKanpur Mosque Incident
In 1913 the heavy toll of life taken by indiscriminate firing on a Muslim mob protesting against the demolition of a portion of the Kanpur...
Read MoreFirst World War
The First World War lasted over four years from 1914 to the end of 1918. Germany and its allies Turkey, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, were...
Read MoreThe Ideology of Pakistan: Two-Nation Theory
The ideology of Pakistan stems from the instinct of the Muslim community of South Asia to maintain their individuality by resisting all...
Read MorePartition of Bengal
Finding the Bengal Presidency too large for one governor to administer, in 1905 the English decided to redraw its boundaries and divided it...
Read MoreChaudhry Rehmat Ali
Chaudhry Rahmat Ali, founder of the Pakistan National Movement, was born in 1895. From his early childhood, Rahmat Ali showed signs of...
Read MoreAllama Iqbal
Allama Iqbal, great poet-philosopher and active political leader, was born at Sialkot, Punjab, in 1877. He descended from a family of...
Read MoreMaulana Shaukat Ali
Both brothers, Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali were among the architects of Pakistan’s freedom. Maulana Shaukat Ali, being the elder of...
Read MoreSyed Ameer Ali
Syed Ameer Ali traced his lineage through the eighth Imam, Ali Al-Raza, to the Holy Prophet (S. A. W.). One of his forefathers held office...
Read MoreAga Khan III
Sultan Muhammad Shah was born in 1877 at Karachi. At the age of eight he lost his father Aly Shah, the Aga Khan II, and assumed the title...
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