Janbaz Mirza
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Janbaz Mirza was a writer, poet, and journalist from the Indian subcontinent
and later Pakistan
. He played a role in the Pakistan Movement
and was the leader and official historian of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam
party. He joined the Ahrar Party
in 1932. After the partition of India
, he started to publish the weekly newspaper Tabsarah. He wrote Karvan-e-Ahrar, an eight volume series of the history of Indian subcontinent.
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent, also Indian Subcontinent, Indo-Pak Subcontinent or South Asian Subcontinent is a region of the Asian continent on the Indian tectonic plate from the Hindu Kush or Hindu Koh, Himalayas and including the Kuen Lun and Karakoram ranges, forming a land mass which extends...
and later Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. He played a role in the Pakistan Movement
Pakistan Movement
The Pakistan Movement or Tehrik-e-Pakistan refers to the historical movement to have an independent Muslim state named Pakistan created from the separation of the north-western region of the Indian subcontinent, partitioned within or outside the British Indian Empire. It had its origins in the...
and was the leader and official historian of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam
Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam
Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam or Majlis-e-Ah'rãr-e-Islam , also known in short as Ahrar, was a conservative Sunni Muslim political party in Pakistan prior to the Partition of India...
party. He joined the Ahrar Party
Ahrar Party (India)
The Ahrar Party was a political party, founded in India in 1930. The group was composed of Indian Muslims disillusioned by the Khilafat Movement, which cleaved closer to the Congress Party. The party was based in Punjab. It gathered support from the urban lower-middle class...
in 1932. After the partition of India
Partition of India
The Partition of India was the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics that led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan and the Union of India on 14 and 15...
, he started to publish the weekly newspaper Tabsarah. He wrote Karvan-e-Ahrar, an eight volume series of the history of Indian subcontinent.