Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan | |
|---|---|
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| Speaker of the National Assembly | |
| In office 11 June 1962 – 19 August 1963 | |
| Deputy | Mohammad Afzal Cheema |
| Preceded by | Abdul Wahab Khan |
| Succeeded by | Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry |
| In office 11 September 1948 – 12 August 1955 | |
| Deputy | M. H. Gazder |
| Preceded by | Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
| Succeeded by | Abdul Wahab Khan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1889 Faridpur, British Raj (now Bangladesh) |
| Died | 19 August 1963 (aged 73) Dacca, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) |
| Political party | Muslim League (1915–1963) Indian National Congress (1921–1926) |
| Alma mater | Presidency College, Kolkata Surendranath College University of Calcutta |
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan or M. T. Khan (1889 - 19 August 1963),[1] was President (speaker) of Pakistan's Constituent Assembly from 1948 to 1954 and National Assembly of Pakistan between 1962 and 1963.[2]
Tamizuddin created history when the Constituent Assembly was dismissed by Governor General Ghulam Mohammad in 1954. Tamizuddin challenged the dismissal in the court and the case was filed in the morning of 7 November 1954, by Advocate Manzar-e-Alam.[3] Although the High Court agreed and overturned it, the Federal Court under Justice Muhammad Munir upheld the dismissal. He had been president of the Basic Principles Committee set up in 1949.
"Justice A. R. Cornelius was the sole dissenting judge in the landmark judgment handed down by the Supreme Court in the Maulvi Tamizuddin case. That judgment altered the course of politics in Pakistan forever and sealed the fate of democracy. The law had guided him as he had interpreted it and his conscience.".[4]
The decision to uphold the dismissal of the constituent assembly was to mark the beginning of the overt role of Pakistan's military and civil establishment in Pakistani politics.
See also
References
- ^ "Khan, Tamizuddin". banglapedia.org.
- ^ Presidents/Speakers of Pakistan Retrieved on 04 August 2013.
- ^ The Test of Time: My Life and Days by Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan, Chapter Six http://www.tamizuddinkhan.info/publication_chapter6.html
- ^ For the Love of Cricket' by Omar Kureishi http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/040718/dmag18.htm
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