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 Chattanmagazine, 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-Islamand
the struggle for Ahrar Party.
Kashmiri was also impressed by his religious and political teacher (teacher
meaning murshad in Urdu language) Ameer-e-Shariyyat Syed Ata Ullah
Shah Bukhari.[3]
Kashmiri was elected as secretary General
of All-India Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam in
1946. He played a role in Tehreek-e-Khatme
Nabuwwat in 1974 during Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's
regime in Pakistan.[4] In 2014, the Punjab governor in
Pakistan, Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar was speaking at a book-launching ceremony in Lahore. This book was written about the late
Agha Shorish Kashmiri's life. The Punjab governor said that he was a great
journalist who had exposed oppression everywhere. Journalists today can learn a
lot from him. The governor said that Maulana Zafar Ali Khan's influence
was reflected in Kashmiri's writings and Attaullah Shah Bukhari's influence in
Kashmiri's speech.[5]
1.
Jump up^ Aḥmad, Bashīr (1994). The
Ahmadiyya Movement. Islamic Study Forum. pp. 356–358. OCLC 46733666.
2.
Jump up^ Mirza, Janbaz (December 2012). Masla
Masjid Shaheed Ganj. Maktaba Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam. pp. 161–169. Check date values in: |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
3.
Jump up^ https://rekhta.org/poets/shorish-kashmiri,
Profile and poetry of Agha Shorish Kashmiri on rekhta.org website, Retrieved 6
June 2016
4.
Jump up^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t20eNuMPaHI,
Agha Shorish Kashmiri's public speech in Pakistan on YouTube, Retrieved 6 June
2016
5.
Jump up^ http://tribune.com.pk/story/708524/book-launch-journalists-should-follow-shorishs-lead-says-sarwar/,
A book-launching ceremony written about Agha Shorish Kashmiri's life in 2014,
The Express Tribune newspaper, Published 15 May 2014, Retrieved 6 June 2016
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