Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan

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Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan
Speaker of the National Assembly
In office
11 June 1962
19 August 1963
Deputy Mohammad Afzal Cheema
Preceded by
Abdul Wahab Khan
Succeeded by
Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry
In office
11 September 1948
12 August 1955
Deputy M. H. Gazder
Preceded by
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Succeeded by
Abdul Wahab Khan
Personal details
Born
1889
Faridpur, British Raj
(now Bangladesh)
Died
19 August 1963 (aged 73)
Dacca, East Pakistan
(now Bangladesh)
Political party
Muslim League (1915 1963)
Indian National Congress (1921 1926)
Alma mater
Presidency College, Kolkata
Surendranath College
University of Calcutta
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan or M. T. Khan (1889 - 19 August 1963),[1] was President (
speaker) of Pakistan's Constituent Assembly from 1948 to 1954 and National Assem
bly of Pakistan between 1962 and 1963.[2]
Tamizuddin created history when the Constituent Assembly was dismissed by Govern
or General Ghulam Mohammad in 1954. Tamizuddin challenged the dismissal in the c
ourt and the case was filed in the morning of 7 November 1954, by Advocate Manza
r-e-Alam.[3] Although the High Court agreed and overturned it, the Federal Court
under Justice Muhammad Munir upheld the dismissal. He had been president of the
Basic Principles Committee set up in 1949.
"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 al
tered the course of politics in Pakistan forever and sealed the fate of democrac
y. The law had guided him as he had interpreted it and his conscience.".[4]
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 P
akistani politics.
See also
Doctrine of necessity
Constitutional Coup
References
http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/K_0198.htm
Presidents/Speakers of Pakistan Retrieved on 04 August 2013.
The Test of Time: My Life and Days by Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan, Chapter Six http:/
/www.tamizuddinkhan.info/publication_chapter6.html

For the Love of Cricket' by Omar Kureishi http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/ar

chive/040718/dmag18.htm
External links
History of National Assembly
Banglapedia: A profile of Tamizuddin Khan
Political offices
Preceded by
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Speaker of the National Assembly
1948 1955
Succeeded by
Abdul Wahab Khan
Preceded by
Abdul Wahab Khan
Speaker of the National Assembly
1962 1963
Succeeded by
Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry
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