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{{Short description|Pakistani politician}}
{{Distinguish|Qazi Muhammad}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Qazi Muhammad Isa
| native_name = {{nobold|{{Nastaliq|قاضی محمد عیسیٰ}}}}
| image = Qazi Muhammad Isa.jpg
| caption = Official portrait, {{circa|1940s}}
| birth_date = 17 July 1914
| birth_place = [[Pishin District]], [[Balochistan (Chief Commissioner's Province)|Baluchistan]], British India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1976|06|19|df=y|1914|07|17}}
| death_place = [[Quetta]], [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]], Pakistan
| known_for = Being one of the [[List of Pakistan Movement activists|Founding father]] of [[Pakistan Movement|Pakistan]]<br />Lifelong member of [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]]
| children = [[Qazi Faez Isa]] (son)
<br/> Qazi Azmat Isa (son)<br/> Qazi Anwar Kamal Isa (son){{sfn|National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research|1998}}
[[Ashraf Qazi]]
}}

'''Qazi Muhammad Isa'''{{Efn|{{langx|ur|قاضی محمد عیسیٰ}}}} (17 July 1914 – 19 June 1976) was a Pakistani [[List of Pakistan Movement activists|founding father]], diplomat and statesman who led the [[Pakistan Movement]] in [[Balochistan]]. He was a signatory of the [[Lahore Resolution]], representing the [[Balochistan (Chief Commissioner's Province)|Balochistan Province]].

==Early life and career==
Qazi Muhammad Isa was born on 17 July 1914 in [[Pishin District]], [[Balochistan]]. He received his basic education in [[Quetta]]. In 1933, he went to England for higher studies and received his law degree from [[Middle Temple]], London. After returning to British India, he started practicing law in [[Bombay]] in 1938 where he first met [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah|Jinnah]].<ref name="storyofpakistan">[http://storyofpakistan.com/qazi-mohammad-isa/ Profile of Qazi Muhammad Essa on storyofpakistan.com website] Retrieved 27 August 2021</ref>

He participated in the formation of the first Muslim political party in what was to become [[Pakistan]], ([[All-India Muslim League|All-India Muslim league]]) [[Balochistan (Pakistan)|Balochistan]] before 1947. He was from a [[Sunni]] [[Hazara people|Hazara]] of [[Sheikh Ali (Hazara tribe)|Sheikh Ali]] tribe, whose ancestors had migrated from [[Kandahar]], Afghanistan to [[Pishin, Balochistan|Pishin]] in Balochistan, Pakistan.<ref name="Javed">{{cite news|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/730474/hope-fades-away-for-hazaras-of-pakistan|title=Hope fades away for Hazaras of Pakistan|work=Dawn|date=29 June 2012|access-date=9 June 2020|first=Saleem|last=Javed|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190221084927/https://www.dawn.com/news/730474/hope-fades-away-for-hazaras-of-pakistan|archive-date=21 February 2019|url-status=live|quote=Hazaras also played an important role in the formation of Pakistan. A Hazara politician, Qazi Mohammad Essa (his son, Faiz Essa, is the present Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court), was the founder of Balochistan Muslim League who represented Balochistan in Lahore Resolution in 1940.}}</ref>

"After having been called to Bar in January 1939, he returned home and met Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Bombay. He was so impressed with his ideas and personality that on his return to Balochistan, he founded the All-India Muslim League in his province."<ref name=storyofpakistan /> He played a key role in the [[Pakistan Movement]] and was one of the trusted lieutenants of [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]]. He was the youngest member of the Working Committee of the [[All-India Muslim League]] and as President of the Baluchistan Provincial Muslim League, he quickly organized the party throughout the province and played a key role in the 'Vote for Pakistan movement' and in the historical referendum of the then [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–2010)|North-West Frontier Province]]. Qazi Essa travelled more than 300,000 miles to campaign for the Pakistan Movement between 1940 and 1947.<ref name=storyofpakistan/><ref name="humsafar">{{Cite web |title=Humsafar.info is under construction |url=http://www.humsafar.info/pio_qazi_mohammad_isa.php |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=www.humsafar.info}}</ref>

He represented Balochistan in the 1940 [[Lahore Resolution]] (''Qarardad-e-Lahore'' قرارداد لاھور), commonly known as the Pakistan Resolution (قرارداد پاکستان ''Qarardad-e-Pakistan'').<ref name=storyofpakistan/> His nephew, [[Ashraf Jehangir Qazi]], has been a Pakistani [[High Commissioner]] in India, Pakistan's [[Permanent representative]] in UNO and UN Secretary General Special Representative in [[Iraq]]. Qazi Essa's son [[Qazi Faez Isa]] became Chief Justice of [[Balochistan High Court]] on 5 August 2009{{sfn|National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research|1998}} and, later, took oath as a Judge of the [[Supreme Court of Pakistan]] on 5 September 2014.<ref name=storyofpakistan/><ref name=supremecourt.gov.pk>[https://www.supremecourt.gov.pk/judges/honorable-judges/mr-justice-qazi-faez-isa/ Profile of Justice Qazi Faez Isa (son of Qazi Muhammad Essa) on supremecourt.gov.pk website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827224926/https://www.supremecourt.gov.pk/judges/honorable-judges/mr-justice-qazi-faez-isa/ |date=27 August 2021 }} Retrieved 27 August 2021</ref> Qazi Faez Isa, later, served as 29th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 17 September 2023 to 25 October 2024.

Later, Qazi Muhammad Isa served as [[Ambassador]] of Pakistan to [[Brazil]] from 1951 to 1953. He also was a member of Pakistan delegations to the [[United Nations]] in 1950, 1954 and 1974. He was appointed member of the Committee on Minorities in the first [[Constituent Assembly of Pakistan]].<ref name=storyofpakistan/>

==Commemorative postage stamp issued in 1990==
* [[Pakistan Postal Services]] issued a commemorative postage stamp in Qazi Muhammad Isa's honor in its 'Pioneers of Freedom' series in 1990.<ref>[https://www.sbp.org.pk/Museum/frmftr.htm 1990 Pioneers Of Freedom Series commemorative postage stamps on State Bank of Pakistan Museum website] Retrieved 27 August 2021</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cybercity-online.net/pof/qazi_mohammad_isa.html |date=26 October 2003|archive-date=22 November 2010|title=Profile of Qazi Mohaammad Isa |website=cybercity-online.net website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122083440/http://cybercity-online.net/pof/qazi_mohammad_isa.html|access-date=28 August 2021}}</ref>

==Death and legacy==
Qazi Muhammad Isa died on 19 June 1976. Qazi Isa devotedly served the Muslim League for 37 years.<ref name=storyofpakistan /> Among his survivors are some notable Pakistani personalities.

==See also==
* [[All-India Muslim League]]
* [[Balochistan (Pakistan)|Balochistan]]
* [[Lahore Resolution]]
* [[Qazi Faez Isa]] (Justice of [[Supreme Court of Pakistan]] and a son of Qazi Mohammad Isa)
* [[Ashraf Jehangir Qazi]] (a nephew of Qazi Mohammad Isa)
* [[History of Quetta]]
* [[List of Hazara people]]

== Notes ==
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==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==Bibliography==
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* Francis Robinson (1997), ''The Muslims and Partition'', History Today, Vol. 47
* {{citation |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Ne5tAAAAMAAJ|title=Pakistan Journal of History and Culture, Volume 19|date=1998|publisher=National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research|page=124|location=[[Pakistan]]|ref={{sfnref|National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research|1998}}}}
{{refend}}

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