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He was the first president of the Muslim League (Pakistan) (1948–1950), governor of East Bengal (1953–1954) succeeding Firoz Khan Noon, Pakistan's ambassador to Indonesia and the Philippines, and author of the memoir Pathway to Pakistan (1961).", "ur": "پاکستانی سیاست دان (1889ء–1973ء) جن کا تعلق چنار سے تھا؛ آل انڈیا مسلم لیگ کے سرکردہ رہنماؤں میں سے تھے جنھوں نے 1940ء میں قرارداد لاہور کی تائید کی، اور پاکستان کے بانیوں میں شمار ہوتے ہیں۔ مسلم لیگ (پاکستان) کے پہلے صدر (1948ء–1950ء)، مشرقی بنگال کے گورنر (1953ء–1954ء) بطور فیروز خان نون کے جانشین، انڈونیشیا و فلپائن میں پاکستان کے سفیر، اور یادداشت «شاہراہ پاکستان» (1961ء) کے مصنف۔" }, "stub": false, "wings": [ "people" ], "regions": [ "south-asia" ], "periods": [], "tags": [], "aliases": [], "themes": [], "span": { "earliest": 1889.9819298137538, "latest": 1973.3785772465922 }, "display": { "start": { "edtf": "1889-12-25", "hijri": "1307", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Born on 25 December 1889 at Chunar in the Mirzapur district of the United Provinces, as the English article states citing the Pioneers of Freedom profile, and as the Urdu and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree. Chunar has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written. The Hijri year is a conversion of the followed date.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en", "source/wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur", "source/wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ar", "source/wikidata-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman" ] }, "end": { "edtf": "1973-05-18", "hijri": "1393", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Died on 18 May 1973, as the English and Urdu articles give it; Wikidata gives Karachi as the place of death. Karachi has no place entity, so no died_in edge is written. The Hijri year is a conversion of the followed date.", "sources": [ "source/wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en", "source/wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur", "source/wikidata-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman" ] } }, "data": { "names": [ { "value": "Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "تشودري خليق الزمان", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "چودھری خلیق الزماں", "kind": "full" }, { "value": "شودري خليق الزمان", "kind": "alternate" }, { "value": "تشودري خاليق الزمان", "kind": "alternate" }, { "value": "Chaudhry", "kind": "laqab" } ], "gender": "male", "roles": [ "politician", "writer" ], "born": { "edtf": "1889-12-25", "hijri": "1307", "calendar": "gregorian", "precision": "day", "status": "historical", "derived": true, "note": "Born on 25 December 1889 at Chunar in the Mirzapur district of the United Provinces, as the English article states citing the Pioneers of Freedom profile, and as the Urdu and Arabic articles and Wikidata agree. 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Existence checks by name fragments (khaliquzzaman, خليق الزمان, خلیق الزماں), by Arabic label across data/person, by biography and by QID found no prior record for this man. The successor_of edge to person/firoz-khan-noon is written here, in Khaliquzzaman's record: he succeeded Noon as governor of East Bengal on 31 March 1953, as the English article's infobox and succession box record (Noon's own article likewise names Khaliquzzaman as his successor in that office). No born_in or died_in edge is written because Chunar and Karachi have no place entities. His relation to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, whose movement he served, cannot be written: Jinnah has no person record in the museum, and this batch's brief forbids creating one. The lane queue gives 'Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman (1889–1973)', which the articles confirm.", "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)", "run": "century-additions-82" }, "status": { "review": "published", "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)" } }, "prose": { "ar": { "sections": [ { "heading": "موجز", "markdown": "تشودري خليق الزمان (25 كانون الأول 1889 – 18 أيار 1973) سياسي باكستاني، من كبار قادة رابطة مسلمي عموم الهند وأحد الآباء المؤسسين لباكستان.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ar} أيّد قرار لاهور في آذار 1940، وكان أول رئيس للرابطة الإسلامية (باكستان)، وحاكم بنغال الشرقية في 1953–1954، ودوّن روايته لحركة باكستان في مذكراته «درب إلى باكستان».{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}" }, { "heading": "نشأته", "markdown": "وُلد في تشونار، وهي بلدة قديمة في قضاء ميرزابور بالمقاطعات المتحدة، حيث كان أبوه تشودري محمد زمان موظفاً في دائرة الإيرادات.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ar} وكان أخوه الأصغر سليم الزمان صدّيقي (1897–1994) عالماً وباحثاً.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}" }, { "heading": "حركة باكستان", "markdown": "في لحظة الاستقلال في 14 آب 1947 كان خليق الزمان ما يزال عضواً عن الرابطة الإسلامية في الجمعية التأسيسية للهند، وكان أحد أربعة أشخاص خاطبوا تلك الجمعية في القاعة المركزية للبرلمان في جلسة منتصف الليل، إلى جانب نهرو وراجندرا براساد وراداكريشنان.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ar} هاجر إلى باكستان في تشرين الثاني 1947، وعُيّن المنظّم الرئيس للرابطة الإسلامية (باكستان) ثم صار أول رئيس لها من 1948 إلى 1950.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}" }, { "heading": "الحاكمية والسفارة", "markdown": "تولى حاكمية بنغال الشرقية من 31 آذار 1953 إلى أيار 1954، خلفاً لفيروز خان نون في ذلك المنصب، وخلفه إسكندر ميرزا.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en} وفي 1954 صار سفير باكستان لدى إندونيسيا والفلبين.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ar}" }, { "heading": "«درب إلى باكستان»", "markdown": "نشر سنة 1961 مذكراته «درب إلى باكستان» (وصدرت نسختها الأردية «شاہراہ پاکستان» سنة 1967)، وتُعد عند كثيرين خزانة نادرة للمعلومات عن حركة باكستان.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en} وقد رأى فيها أن نظرية الأمتين، بعد التقسيم، أضرّت بمسلمي الهند الباقين فيها، وأن جناح نفسه ودّعها في خطابه في 11 آب 1947.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}" }, { "heading": "وفاته وتكريمه", "markdown": "توفي في 18 أيار 1973؛ وتذكر ويكيداتا كراتشي مكاناً لوفاته.{cite:wikidata-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman} وفي 1990 أصدر بريد باكستان طابعاً تذكارياً تكريماً له في سلسلة «رواد الحرية».{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}" }, { "heading": "المراجع", "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman}}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/chaudhry-khaliquzzaman", "lang": "ar", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" }, "en": { "sections": [ { "heading": "Summary", "markdown": "Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman (25 December 1889 – 18 May 1973) was a Pakistani politician, one of the top leaders of the All-India Muslim League and a founding father of Pakistan.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en} He seconded the Lahore Resolution of March 1940, served as the first president of the Muslim League (Pakistan), governed East Bengal in 1953–1954, and recorded his account of the Pakistan movement in his memoir Pathway to Pakistan.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}" }, { "heading": "Early life", "markdown": "He was born at Chunar, an ancient town in the Mirzapur district of the United Provinces, where his father, Chaudhry Muhammad Zaman, was a revenue officer.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en} His younger brother was Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (1897–1994), the scientist.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}" }, { "heading": "The Pakistan movement", "markdown": "At the moment of independence on 14 August 1947, Khaliquzzaman was still a Muslim League member of the Constituent Assembly of India, and he was one of the four individuals who addressed that assembly in the central hall of Parliament at the midnight session, alongside Nehru, Rajendra Prasad and Radhakrishnan.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en} He migrated to Pakistan in November 1947, was appointed chief organizer of the Muslim League (Pakistan), and became its first president, serving from 1948 to 1950.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}" }, { "heading": "Governor and ambassador", "markdown": "He served as governor of East Bengal from 31 March 1953 to May 1954, succeeding Firoz Khan Noon in that office and followed by Iskander Mirza.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en} In 1954 he became Pakistan's ambassador to Indonesia and the Philippines.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}" }, { "heading": "Pathway to Pakistan", "markdown": "In 1961 he published his memoirs, Pathway to Pakistan (the Urdu version, Shahrah-e-Pakistan, followed in 1967), which many regard as a rare treasure house of information on the Pakistan movement.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en} In it he argued that the two-nation theory, after partition, had proved injurious to the Muslims left in India, and that Jinnah himself had bid farewell to it in his speech of 11 August 1947.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}" }, { "heading": "Death and recognition", "markdown": "He died on 18 May 1973; Wikidata gives Karachi as the place of his death.{cite:wikidata-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman} In 1990 Pakistan Post issued a commemorative stamp in his honour in its Pioneers of Freedom series.{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}" }, { "heading": "References", "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman}}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/chaudhry-khaliquzzaman", "lang": "en", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" }, "ur": { "sections": [ { "heading": "خلاصہ", "markdown": "چودھری خلیق الزماں (25 دسمبر 1889ء – 18 مئی 1973ء) پاکستانی سیاست دان تھے، آل انڈیا مسلم لیگ کے سرکردہ رہنماؤں اور پاکستان کے بانیوں میں سے ایک۔{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur} انھوں نے مارچ 1940ء میں قرارداد لاہور کی تائید کی، مسلم لیگ (پاکستان) کے پہلے صدر رہے، 1953ء–1954ء میں مشرقی بنگال کے گورنر بنے، اور اپنی یادداشت «شاہراہ پاکستان» میں تحریک پاکستان کا احوال قلم بند کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur}" }, { "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی", "markdown": "وہ متحدہ صوبوں کے ضلع مرزا پور کے قدیم قصبے چنار میں پیدا ہوئے، جہاں ان کے والد چودھری محمد زمان ریونیو افسر تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur} ان کے چھوٹے بھائی سلیم الزماں صدیقی (1897ء–1994ء) سائنس دان و محقق تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur}" }, { "heading": "تحریک پاکستان", "markdown": "14 اگست 1947ء کو آزادی کے لمحے وہ ہندوستان کی دستور ساز اسمبلی کے مسلم لیگ رکن کی حیثیت سے موجود تھے اور ان چار افراد میں سے ایک تھے جنھوں نے پارلیمنٹ کے مرکزی ہال میں اس اسمبلی سے خطاب کیا؛ دیگر تین نہرو، راجندر پرساد اور رادھا کرشنن تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur} نومبر 1947ء میں وہ پاکستان ہجرت کر آئے، مسلم لیگ (پاکستان) کے چیف آرگنائزر مقرر ہوئے اور 1948ء سے 1950ء تک اس کے پہلے صدر رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur}" }, { "heading": "گورنری و سفارت", "markdown": "31 مارچ 1953ء سے مئی 1954ء تک وہ مشرقی بنگال کے گورنر رہے؛ اس عہدے پر وہ فیروز خان نون کے جانشین بنے اور ان کے بعد اسکندر مرزا آئے۔{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en} 1954ء میں وہ انڈونیشیا و فلپائن میں پاکستان کے سفیر مقرر ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur}" }, { "heading": "«شاہراہ پاکستان»", "markdown": "1961ء میں ان کی انگریزی یادداشت «Pathway to Pakistan» شائع ہوئی، جس کا اردو نسخہ «شاہراہ پاکستان» 1967ء میں آیا؛ یہ کتاب تحریک پاکستان پر معلومات کا نادر خزانہ سمجھی جاتی ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur} اس میں انھوں نے لکھا کہ دو قومی نظریہ تقسیم کے بعد ہندوستان میں رہ جانے والے مسلمانوں کے لیے نقصان دہ ثابت ہوا، اور جناح خود 11 اگست 1947ء کی تقریر میں اسے خیرباد کہہ چکے تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur}" }, { "heading": "وفات و اعتراف", "markdown": "ان کی وفات 18 مئی 1973ء کو ہوئی؛ وکی ڈیٹا ان کی وفات کا مقام کراچی بتاتا ہے۔{cite:wikidata-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman} 1990ء میں پاکستان پوسٹ نے «Pioneers of Freedom» سلسلے میں ان کے اعزاز میں یادگاری ڈاک ٹکٹ جاری کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur}" }, { "heading": "حوالہ جات", "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-chaudhry-khaliquzzaman}}" } ], "frontmatter": { "id": "person/chaudhry-khaliquzzaman", "lang": "ur", "source_lang": "ar", "translators": [] }, "updated": "2026-10-27" } }, "degree": 2, "contemporaries": [ "person/abdul-hamid-khan-bhashani", "person/abdul-majid-sindhi", "person/idris-senussi", "person/mohamed-salah-ben-mrad", "person/muhammad-al-tahir-ibn-ashur", "person/sefika-gasprinskaya", "person/taha-hussein", 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