Agha Shorish Kashmiri (
Agha Shorish Kashmiri (1917–1975) was a scholar, writer, debater, and a leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam party. He was a figure of the freedom movement of undivided India, as well as the chief editor of the weekly Chattan magazine, in Pakistan. [1] Early life and career Kashmiri started his political career in 1935 when he delivered a historical speech at the Shaheed Ganj Mosque conference, when Maulana Zafar Ali Khan was serving as the President of Ahrar Party , India. He was a student of Maulana Zafar Ali Khan , but was disappointed by the violence at the Shaheed Ganj Mosque in 1935. [2] Kashmiri was impressed by Chaudhry Afzal Haq as well, who was a political leader of the Indian sub-continent, so he joined All-India Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam and the struggle for Ahrar Party . Kashmiri was also impressed by his religious and political teacher (teacher meaning murshad ...