Shahab-ud-Din Virk

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Khan Bahadur Chaudhry Sir Shahab-ud-Din Virk (died 1946) was a Punjabi lawyer and politician of British India.

Biography

Chaudhry Shahabuddin was born into a Muslim Jat family of the Virk tribe [1] hailing from Sialkot District in what was then Punjab, British India. [2]

He was educated at Government College University in Lahore. In 1912 he was elected to Lahore Municipal Committee. He became a member of the Punjab Legislative Council in 1923, and was elected President for three consecutive terms between 1925 and 1936. [3] He was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours list of 1930. [4] In 1936 the Council was replaced by the Punjab Legislative Assembly, and Virk served as the Speaker of the Assembly between April 1937 and March 1945. [5] He died in Lahore in 1946.

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References

  1. Talbot, I. (2013). Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India. Taylor & Francis. p. 97. ISBN   978-1-136-79029-4 . Retrieved 24 July 2023. Sir Shahabuddin was a Virk Jat
  2. Contemporary Problems of Pakistan. International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Brill. 2022. p. 15. ISBN   978-90-04-47468-0 . Retrieved 24 July 2023. Chaudhury Sir Shahabuddin , a Jat from Sialkot District
  3. The Punjab Parliamentarians 1897-213, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, Lahore - Pakistan, 2015
  4. The Edinburgh Gazette, 7 January 1930.
  5. The Punjab Parliamentarians 1897-213, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, Lahore - Pakistan, 2015