Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan

Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan
2nd & 4th Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office December 14, 1948 – October 24, 1954
President	Ghulam Muhammad
Preceded by	Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Succeeded by	Abdul Wahab Khan
In office June 14, 1962 – August 19, 1963
Preceded by	Abdul Wahab Khan
Succeeded by	Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry
Personal details
Born	Faridpur, Bengal
Political party	Muslim League[disambiguation needed ]
Religion	Sunni Islam

Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan (1889 - 19 August 1963)^[1], was the President (speaker) of Pakistan's first Constituent Assembly.

He was born in 1889 in a humble peasant family of Faridpur, Bengal. He obtained an MA degree in English in 1913 and a law degree in 1915 and settled for legal profession in Faridpur.

Tamizuddin created history when the Constituent Assembly was dismissed by Governor General Ghulam Mohammad in 1954. Tamizuddin challenged the dismissal in the court and the case was filed in the morning of 7 November 1954, by Advocate Manzar-e-Alam.^[2] Although the High Court agreed and overturned it, the Federal Court under Justice Muhammad Munir upheld the dismissal.

"Justice A. R. Cornelius was the sole dissenting judge in the landmark judgment handed down by the Supreme Court in the Maulvi Tamizuddin case. That judgment altered the course of politics in Pakistan forever and sealed the fate of democracy. The law had guided him as he had interpreted it and his conscience." ^[3].

The decision to uphold the dismissal of the constituent assembly was to mark the beginning of the overt role of Pakistan's military and civil establishment in Pakistani politics.

Tamizuddin Khan, for some time, kept aloof from politics after the verdict in 1954. He came back to active politics again and was elected an MNA under the 1962 constitution. He was elected the Speaker of the Pakistan National Assembly, the position he held till his death on 19 August 1963.

See also

• Doctrine of necessity
• Constitutional Coup

References

1. ^ http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/K_0198.htm
2. ^ The Test of Time: My Life and Days by Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan, Chapter Six http://www.tamizuddinkhan.info/publication_chapter6.html
3. ^ For the Love of Cricket' by Omar Kureishi http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/040718/dmag18.htm

External links

• History of National Assembly
• Banglapedia: A profile of Tamizuddin Khan

Political offices
Preceded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah	Speaker of National Assembly 1948 – 1954	Succeeded by Abdul Wahab Khan
Preceded by Abdul Wahab Khan	2nd Term 1962 – 1963	Succeeded by Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry

Persondata
Name	Khan, Maulvi Tamizuddin
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1889
Place of birth	Faridpur, Bengal
Date of death	19 August 1963
Place of death