Mian Iftikharuddin

Mian Iftikharuddin (میاں افتخارالدین in Urdu) (1907–1962) was a British Indian politician who later joined Muslim league and worked for Pakistan cause under the patronage of Quaid e Azam.

Mian Muhammad Iftikharuddin was born on 8 April 1907 in Baghbanpura, Lahore to the famous Arain Mian family, the custodians of the Shalimar Gardens, Lahore. This is the family that produced great men like Sir Mian Muhammad Shafi and the first Chief Justice of Pakistan, Sir Mian Abdul Rashid.Mian Iftikharuddin who was educated at the Oxford University played a distinguished role in the Indian Independence movement,as well as in the struggle for Pakistan.

He was a member of the Congress Party and President of its Punjab. Mian Iftikaruddin was a member of the All India Congress Committee from the 1930s to the mid 1940s. In 1945 he joined the All India Muslim League upon instructions from Communist Party of India. He briefly served as Minister for Refugees in the provincial government of Punjab.

He was the owner of the Pakistan Times, a newspaper started by the leftists in the Muslim League to create a balance to the centrist Muslim League mouthpiece Dawn newspaper as well as the Hindu press in pre-1947 British India.He was elected the first president of the Punjab Provincial Muslim League after the Independence of Pakistan in 1947.

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