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  "ar": "نواب محمد إسماعيل خان",
  "en": "Nawab Mohammad Ismail Khan",
  "ur": "نواب محمد اسماعیل خان"
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  "ar": "سياسي هندي مسلم من ميروت (آب 1884 – 28 حزيران 1958)، من قادة رابطة مسلمي عموم الهند البارزين ومن آباء حركة باكستان المؤسسين. تعلّم في تونبريدج وكلية سانت جون بكامبريدج وتدرّب محاميًا في المعبد الداخلي، وقاد رابطة البنجاب المتحدة للرابطة من 1930 إلى 1947، وشارك في صياغة قرار باكستان (1940)، وتولّى نيابة رئاسة جامعة عليكرة الإسلامية مرتين، واختار بعد التقسيم البقاء في الهند، ومات في ميروت ودُفن في مقبرة الأسرة عند ضريح نظام الدين في دلهي.",
  "en": "Indian Muslim politician of Meerut (August 1884 – 28 June 1958), a leading figure of the All-India Muslim League and a founding father of the Pakistan Movement. Educated at Tonbridge and St John's College, Cambridge and called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, he led the United Provinces Muslim League from 1930 to 1947, helped draft the Pakistan Resolution (1940), twice served as vice-chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, chose to remain in India after Partition, died at Meerut and was buried in the family graveyard at the Nizamuddin shrine in Delhi.",
  "ur": "میرٹھ کے ہندوستانی مسلمان سیاست دان (اگست 1884 – 28 جون 1958)، آل انڈیا مسلم لیگ کے سرکردہ رہنما اور تحریک پاکستان کے بانی اراکین میں سے ایک۔ ٹونبرج اور سینٹ جانز کالج، کیمبرج سے تعلیم پائی اور انر ٹیمپل سے بیرسٹر بنے؛ 1930 سے 1947 تک متحدہ صوبوں کی مسلم لیگ کی قیادت کی، قرارداد پاکستان (1940) کی تدوین میں حصہ لیا، دو مرتبہ علی گڑھ مسلم یونیورسٹی کے وائس چانسلر رہے، تقسیم کے بعد ہندوستان میں رہنے کا فیصلہ کیا، میرٹھ میں وفات پائی اور دہلی میں نظام الدین کے مزار کے پاس خاندانی قبرستان میں دفن ہوئے۔"
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   "note": "Born at Meerut in August 1884, per the English article and Wikidata Q6982758, which agree at month precision. No source gives a day, so the Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion. Meerut has no place entity in the museum yet, so no born_in relation is written.",
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   "note": "Died at Meerut on 28 June 1958, per the English article and Wikidata Q6982758. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion. Meerut has no place entity in the museum yet, so no died_in relation is written; his burial in the family graveyard at the Nizamuddin shrine is written as a relation to Delhi, which has a place entity.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "نواب محمد إسماعيل خان (آب 1884 – 28 حزيران 1958) سياسي مسلم هندي من ميروت، من أبرز قادة رابطة مسلمي عموم الهند، وتعدّه المقالة الإنجليزية من الآباء المؤسسين لباكستان، واصفة موقعه بأنه الثاني بعد محمد علي جناح. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} {cite:wikidata-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan} والمقالة العربية ترجمة للإنجليزية. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد في ميروت في آب 1884، ابنًا لنواب محمد إسحاق خان من جهانگير آباد، القاضي في الخدمة المدنية الهندية والعضو المؤسس في الرابطة، وحفيدًا للشاعر الأردي والفارسي نواب مصطفى خان شفتا. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} أُرسل إلى إنجلترا في الثانية عشرة داخليًا في مدرسة تونبريدج، ثم قرأ في كلية سانت جون بكامبريدج وتدرّب محاميًا في المعبد الداخلي، وعاد إلى الهند سنة 1908 ليمارس المحاماة، بادئًا إلى جانب موتي لال نهرو في الله آباد. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرابطة والخلافة وعليكرة",
     "markdown": "انضم إلى اللجنة العاملة للرابطة سنة 1910 وبقي فيها أكثر من أربعة عقود، وقاد رابطة المقاطعات المتحدة من 1930 إلى 1947، ورأس لجنة الخلافة لعموم الهند، وجاب البلاد بعد الحرب العالمية الأولى داعيًا لقضية الخلافة. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} وفي مؤتمر الرابطة بلکنهو سنة 1937 كان قلنسوته السامورية التي قدّمها لجناح على المنصة هي ما صار «قبعة جناح» الشهيرة. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} وكان ممن صاغوا قرار باكستان في لاهور في آذار 1940، وقام بدور محوري في مؤتمر سيملا (1945) ومحادثات الحكومة المؤقتة (1946) وإن رفض الانضمام إليها. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} وتولّى نيابة رئاسة جامعة عليكرة الإسلامية مرتين — خلفًا لراس مسعود في الثلاثينيات، ثم ثانية في 1947–1948 — بعد أن كان أمين خزنتها الفخري. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "بعد التقسيم والوفاة",
     "markdown": "اختار بعد 1947 البقاء في الهند — ويُروى قوله: «كيف أترك إخوتي هنا خلفي؟» — واستقال من نيابته الثانية لعليكرة سنة 1948 وعاد إلى ميروت حين أحسّ أن بقاءه قد يضرّ بالجامعة. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} توفي في ميروت في 28 حزيران 1958 ودُفن في مقبرة الأسرة عند ضريح نظام الدين أولياء في دلهي، التي كان جده شفتا قد خصّصها. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} وكرّمه البريد الباكستاني في سلسلة طوابع «رواد الحرية» سنة 1990. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Nawab Mohammad Ismail Khan (August 1884 – 28 June 1958) was an Indian Muslim politician of Meerut, a leading figure of the All-India Muslim League whom the English article counts among the founding fathers of Pakistan, his position described as second only to Muhammad Ali Jinnah's. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} {cite:wikidata-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "He was born at Meerut in August 1884, the son of Nawab Mohammad Ishak Khan of Jehangirabad, an Indian Civil Service judge and founding member of the Muslim League, and the grandson of the Urdu and Persian poet Nawab Mustafa Khan Shefta. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} Sent to England at twelve as a boarder at Tonbridge School, he read at St John's College, Cambridge and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, returning to India in 1908 to practise law, at first alongside Motilal Nehru at Allahabad. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "League, Khilafat and Aligarh",
     "markdown": "He joined the Muslim League's Working Committee in 1910 and held his place on it for more than four decades, led the United Provinces Muslim League from 1930 to 1947, presided over the All-India Khilafat Committee, and toured the country preaching the Khilafat cause after the First World War. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} At the League's 1937 Lucknow session it was his own karakul cap, offered to Jinnah on the dais, that became the famous \"Jinnah cap\". {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} He was among those who drafted the Pakistan Resolution in Lahore in March 1940, and at the 1945 Simla Conference and in the interim-government talks of 1946 he stood near the centre of the League's counsels, though he declined to join the Interim Government himself. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} He twice served as vice-chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University — succeeding Ross Masood in the 1930s, and again in 1947–1948 — having earlier been the university's honorary treasurer. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "After Partition and death",
     "markdown": "After 1947 he chose to remain in India — \"How can I leave my brethren here behind me?\" he is reported to have said — and resigned his second Aligarh vice-chancellorship in 1948 and returned to Meerut when he felt his presence might harm the university. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} He died at Meerut on 28 June 1958 and was buried in the family graveyard at the shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi, which his grandfather Shefta had set aside. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} Pakistan Post honoured him in its Pioneers of Freedom stamp series in 1990. {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "نواب محمد اسماعیل خان (اگست 1884 – 28 جون 1958) میرٹھ کے ہندوستانی مسلمان سیاست دان، آل انڈیا مسلم لیگ کے سرکردہ رہنما اور — انگریزی مقالے کے مطابق — پاکستان کے بانی اراکین میں سے ایک تھے، جن کا مقام محمد علی جناح کے بعد دوسرا بیان کیا جاتا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} {cite:wikidata-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan} اردو مقالہ انگریزی مقالے کا خلاصہ ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ اگست 1884 میں میرٹھ میں پیدا ہوئے؛ والد نواب محمد اسحاق خان آئی سی ایس جج اور مسلم لیگ کے بانی رکن تھے، اور دادا اردو و فارسی کے شاعر نواب مصطفیٰ خان شفتا تھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} بارہ برس کی عمر میں ٹونبرج اسکول بھیجے گئے، پھر سینٹ جانز کالج، کیمبرج سے تعلیم پا کر انر ٹیمپل سے بیرسٹر بنے اور 1908 میں ہندوستان لوٹ کر موتی لال نہرو کے ساتھ وکالت شروع کی۔ {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "لیگ، خلافت اور علی گڑھ",
     "markdown": "1910 میں مسلم لیگ کی ورکنگ کمیٹی کے رکن بنے اور چار دہائیوں سے زائد اس میں رہے؛ 1930 سے 1947 تک متحدہ صوبوں کی مسلم لیگ کے قائد رہے، آل انڈیا خلافت کمیٹی کی صدارت کی اور تحریک خلافت میں ملک گیر دورے کیے۔ {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} 1937 کے لکھنؤ اجلاس میں ان کی اپنی سمور ٹوپی، جو انہوں نے جناح کو پیش کی، «جناح کیپ» کے نام سے مشہور ہوئی۔ {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} وہ مارچ 1940 میں قرارداد پاکستان کے مرتبین میں شامل تھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} علی گڑھ مسلم یونیورسٹی کے دو مرتبہ وائس چانسلر رہے — پہلی مرتبہ راس مسعود کے بعد 1930 کی دہائی میں، دوسری مرتبہ 1947–1948 میں۔ {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تقسیم کے بعد اور وفات",
     "markdown": "1947 کے بعد انہوں نے ہندوستان میں رہنے کا فیصلہ کیا — ان کا یہ قول نقل ہوتا ہے: «میں اپنے بھائیوں کو یہاں پیچھے کیسے چھوڑوں؟» — اور 1948 میں وائس چانسلری سے مستعفی ہو کر میرٹھ لوٹ گئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} 28 جون 1958 کو میرٹھ میں وفات پائی اور دہلی میں نظام الدین اولیا کے مزار کے پاس خاندانی قبرستان میں دفن ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en} پاکستان پوسٹ نے 1990 میں «رواد آزادی» سلسلے میں ان کے اعزاز میں ڈاک ٹکٹ جاری کیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-nawab-mohammad-ismail-khan-en}"
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