Nawab Mian Mumtaz Daulatana, was a Pakistani politician and a key supporter of Pakistan Movement in British India.
14 Facts About Mumtaz Daultana
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Mumtaz Daultana was born in Luddan in 1916, the son of Nawab Ahmad Yar Khan Mumtaz Daultana, a wealthy Punjabi landowner.
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Mumtaz Daultana belonged to the Daultana clan of the Johiya tribe.
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Mumtaz Daultana's father was a supporter of the Unionist Party in the Punjab, whilst his uncle Chaudhry Sir Shahab-ud-Din was the first speaker of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab.
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Mumtaz Daultana studied history at Government College, Lahore, graduating in 1933.
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Mumtaz Daultana was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1939.
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Mumtaz Daultana joined the Punjab Muslim League in 1942 despite being from a leading Unionist family.
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Mumtaz Daultana was elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly in 1946.
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Mumtaz Daultana was of the opinion that the unity of India could not be preserved and that Muslims of the Punjab should unite with their co-religionists across India in the demand for Pakistan.
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In 1951, after elections in West Punjab, Mumtaz Daultana was chosen as parliamentary leader of the Muslim League in the Punjab Assembly and invited to form a government.
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Mumtaz Daultana regarded these land reforms, which in theory gave tenants full security for tenure as long as they paid their rent and took care of the land, as the most progressive in the world.
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Mumtaz Daultana's government proposed the abolition of all jagirs made in the Punjab since 1857.
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Mumtaz Daultana was Defence Minister of Pakistan in the short-lived government of Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar in 1957.
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Mumtaz Daultana served as Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1972 to 1979.