Mahmud Hussain served as Minister for Kashmir Affairs from 1951 to 1953 and Minister for Education in 1953.
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22 Facts About Mahmud Hussain
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Mahmud Hussain was appointed Deputy Minister for Defence, Finance, and Foreign Affairs in 1949 and Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions in 1950 by Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan.
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Mahmud Hussain quit politics when the Constituent Assembly was dissolved in 1954.
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Mahmud Hussain founded Jamia Milia Islamia, Malir, modelled on the university of the same name founded by his brother, Zakir Husain.
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Mahmud Hussain Husain was born in Qaimganj, United Provinces, British India to Fida Husain Khan, a lawyer, and Naznin Begum.
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Mahmud Hussain was the father of television compere Anwar Husain, uncle of academic Masud Husain Khan, and the father-in-law of General Rahimuddin Khan, the Governor of Balochistan.
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Mahmud Hussain was part of the first batch of students to be admitted into the newly established Jamia Milia Islamia, where he was heavily influenced by the ideas of Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar.
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Mahmud Hussain received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg in Germany in 1932.
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Mahmud Hussain Husain started his career in academia as a reader of modern history at the University of Dhaka in 1933, where he became provost, Fazlul Haq Hall in 1944 and professor of international relations in 1948.
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Unlike his brother Zakir Husain, Mahmud Hussain Husain had been a strong proponent of the Pakistan Movement, and catalysed support for Pakistan among students in East Bengal and at Dhaka University.
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Mahmud Hussain was elected Member of the first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan from East Bengal on the platform of Muslim League, and elected Secretary of the Muslim League's Parliamentary Group.
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Mahmud Hussain served on the committee of minorities and fundamental rights.
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Mahmud Hussain formally retired from politics in protest when the Constituent Assembly was dissolved in 1954.
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Mahmud Hussain joined Karachi University as its first professor of international relations and history.
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Mahmud Hussain began the faculties of journalism and library science, the first in Pakistan.
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Mahmud Hussain instituted the greater induction of social sciences into the national curriculum.
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Mahmud Hussain taught as visiting professor at his alma mater Heidelberg University, Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania.
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Mahmud Hussain served as vice-chancellor of the University of Karachi from 1971 to 1975.
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Mahmud Hussain strongly opposed the army operation in East Pakistan in 1971 but to no avail.
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Mahmud Hussain died while serving as vice-chancellor on 12 April 1975.
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