Khurshid Ahmed (secretary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah)

Khurshid Hasan Khurshid (born 3 January 1924) was the private secretary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the first Governor-General of Pakistan. He was sent as an observer by Jinnah to Jammu and Kashmir in 1943,[1] and again with the tribal army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. Khurshid Hasan was repatriated from Srinagar by Indian forces.[2] He was belonging to famous Lone tribe of Kashmir. He was first elected president of Azad Kashmir. He is the founder of first Constitution of Azad Kashmir. He died on 10 March 1988.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Zutshi, Chitralekha (January 2004), Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, pp. 265–, ISBN 978-1-85065-700-2
  2. ↑ Mahajan, Vidya Dhar (1985), Modern Indian History, from 1707 to the Present Day: British Rule in India and After, S. Chand, p. 576, ISBN 978-81-219-0935-8
  3. ↑ K. H. Khurshid’s death anniversary today, Dawn, 11 March 2011.


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