Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman: Difference between revisions

{{short description|Pakistani politician party leader (1889-1973)}}

| birth_place = [[Chunar]], [[North-Western Provinces]]<br>(present day [[Uttar Pradesh]], India)

| death_date  = {{death year and age|1973|1889}}

| nationality = [[British India]](1889-1947)<br>[[Pakistan]](1947-1973)

'''Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman''' ({{lang-ur|چودھری خلیق الزمان}}) (25 December 1889 — 18 May 1973) was a Pakistani [[politician]] and a very important Muslim figure during [[British India]].<ref name=findpk>{{cite web |url=http://www.cybercity-online.net/pof/chaudhry_khaliquzzaman.html |title=Profile of Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman |publisher=Cybercity-online.net |date=2001 |access-date=14 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029202609/http://www.cybercity-online.net/pof/chaudhry_khaliquzzaman.html |archive-date=29 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was one of the top leaders of the [[All India Muslim League]].<ref name=findpk/>

He was born in [[Chunar]], an ancient town in UP's Mirzapur district in the [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]] (now [[Uttar Pradesh]]). At the time, his father, Chaudhry Muhammad Zaman, was a ''naib tehsildar'' (revenue officer) there. His younger brother, [[Salimuzzaman Siddiqui]] (1897 &ndash; 1994) was an eminent scientist and researcher in both [[British India]] and later in [[Pakistan]].<ref name=Dawn>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/884351|author=Dr Ahmed S. Khan|date=15 August 2010|title=Homage: Our own Einstein (Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman's younger brother Salimuzzaman Siddiqui)|access-date=14 January 2018}}</ref>

Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman himself was not only a prominent Muslim League leader, but also one of the founding fathers of Pakistan.<ref name=Dawn/> At the time of [[independence of Pakistan]] on 14 August 1947, he was still serving as the Muslim League member of the ''Constituent Assembly of India'' and stayed behind to address that Indian Assembly.<ref name=findpk/> He was one of the four individuals who addressed the [[Constituent Assembly of India]] in the central hall of Parliament during the moment of Indian independence at midnight of August 14, 1947.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0815.html#article|author=Robert Trumbull|work=The New York Times|title=India and Pakistan Become Nations; Clashes Continue|date=15 August 1947|access-date=14 January 2018}}</ref> The other three were [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], Dr. [[Rajendra Prasad]] and Dr. [[Radhakrishnan]].<ref name=NYT/> He migrated to newly-created Pakistan in November 1947, when Jinnah expressed his displeasure over his policy. He did not agree with the government of Pakistan that the Indian government was behind Muslims' killings. He was appointed the chief organizer of [[Muslim League (Pakistan)]]. Later he served as the first president of the [[Muslim League (Pakistan)]].