Muhammad Hashim Gazdar | |
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محمد ہاشم گذدر | |
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| 2ndDeputy President of the National Assembly | |
| In office 28 March 1953 – 24 October 1954 | |
| Speaker | Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan |
| Preceded by | Muhammad Tamizuddin Khan |
| Succeeded by | C. E. Gibbon (as Deputy Speaker)[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 February 1893[2] |
| Died | 19 February 1968(1968-02-19) (aged 75) Karachi, Pakistan |
| Political party | All India Muslim League |
| Alma mater | Sindh Madressah-tul-Islam College of Engineering, Pune |
Muhammad Hashim Gazdar (Urdu:محمد ہاشم گذدر; 1 February 1893 – 19 February 1968) was one of the three representatives fromSindh to theConstituent Assembly of Pakistan, and the secondDeputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan.[3][4]
Gazdar was born in 1895 inJaisalmer. AGazdar, his father Faiz Muhammad Gadha, was an engineer who had moved fromRajputana toKarachi after the Sindh was under the jurisdiction of theBritish empiresince 1843.
Gazdar started his academic career fromSindh Madressah-tul-Islam, Karachi, and completed Intermediate in 1911. He also studied civil engineering, earning a degree from theCollege of Engineering, Pune in 1916.[2]
He was involved in an uplift project for the lower caste in Bombay, but this was unsuccessful. He and a number of other people were dismissed from this project.[5]
After losing his job in Bombay he returned to Karachi where he performed his services as an engineer, in District Local Board, Karachi. However, during the subsequent four years, differences on policy matters arose withG. M. Syed, who was then the president of Board; Gazdar resigned.
A popular muslim communalist, he has also said, "The Hindus will have to be eradicated like the Jews in Germany if they did not behave properly"[6]
Later, he joined politics. He was elected a member of theBombay Legislative Council from Sindh constituency in 1934 election. During his subsequent political career, he was also elected theMayor of Karachi for the term from May 1941 to May 1942.
During his tenure as a member of theSindh Assembly, he also joined the Ittehad party for some time. He joinedAll India Muslim League, which was launching a movement for creation of a separate state for Muslim population of India within the sub-continent (which emerged asPakistan later) under the leadership ofMuhammad Ali Jinnah. Being one of the most confident supporters of Jinnah, he was again elected a member of Legislative Assembly from Sindh and appointed as the Deputy Speaker of the then Sindh Assembly.
Gazdar was among the legislating members who represented Sindh in the first session ofPakistan's first Constituent Assembly, and convened for the purpose of legislation in Sindh Assembly Building, Karachi on 10 August 1947, four days beforePakistan's independence and formation was imminent. Other members includedPirzada Abdul Sattar Abdul Rehman, Muhammed Ayub Khoro, and J. Ram Das Doulat Ram.
Gazdar's role as a former Pakistani politician is highly acknowledged. Being an honest legislator, a steadfast Muslim League politician, his role was significant with a view to turning the stream of politics to a new era.
He died in 1968.[2]
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