1905 – 1940 Personalities
The Struggle For Independence
1905 – 1919
Syed Ameer Ali
Syed Ameer Ali traced his lineage through the eighth Imam, Ali Al-Raza, to the Holy Prophet (S. A. W.). One ...
Aga Khan III
Sultan Muhammad Shah was born in 1877 at Karachi. At the age of eight he lost his father Aly Shah, ...
Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk
Named Mushtaq Hussain by his parents, Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk was born on March 24, 1841. He started his education at a ...
Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk
Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk, fondly known as Syed Mehdi Ali, was born to a family of Barah Syeds on December 9, 1837 ...
Maulana Shaukat Ali
Both brothers, Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali were among the architects of Pakistan's freedom. Maulana Shaukat Ali, being the elder ...
1920 – 1932
Sir Mian Muhammad Shafi
Mian Muhammad Shafi was born on March 10, 1869 in the town of Baghbanpura at Lahore in a well-off family. ...
Dr. M. A. Ansari
Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari was born in December 1880 in a prominent family of Yusufpur in the Ghazipur district of ...
Allama Iqbal
Allama Iqbal, great poet-philosopher and active political leader, was born at Sialkot, Punjab, in 1877. He descended from a family ...
Maulana Muhammad Ali Jouhar
Maulana Muhammad Ali was born in Rampur state in 1878, in a wealthy and enlightened family of Pathans. His father ...
Mian 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 ...
Chaudhry Rehmat Ali
Chaudhry Rahmat Ali, founder of the Pakistan National Movement, was born in 1895. From his early childhood, Rahmat Ali showed ...
1935 – 1940
Syed 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 ...
Allama Inayatullah Mashriqi
Allama Inayatullah Mashriqi was born in a respectable and well-to-do Rajput family in Amritsar on August 25, 1888. His ancestors ...
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born in Mecca in 1888 and lived there till he was about seven. His father ...
Maulana Zafar Ali Khan
Maulana Zafar Ali Kahn was one of the most eminent leaders of the freedom movement from Punjab. The man with ...