menu_open Columnists
We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Suhrawardy and Jinnah

16 0
01.06.2025
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892-1963) was prime minister of Pakistan for 13 months. He lies buried today in the old High Court compound of Dhaka, alongside the graves of AK Fazlul Haq and Khwaja Nazimuddin. Out of the three only one, Haq, knew how to speak Bengali well enough; Nazimuddin and Suhrawardy just got along with an accent. Suhrawardy descended from the famous Suhrawardy saints of Baghdad and Multan and grew up as a scion of a family of great lawyers in Dhaka. More facts have been revealed in Memoirs of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy with a brief account of his life and work; Edited by Mohammad HR Talukdar; Foreword by Kamal Hossain (OUP 2009) which claims that Suhrawardy’s death in a hotel in Beirut was due to a heart attack. However, Bhutto, then in General Ayub’s cabinet, had warned him through a friend: “Tell Suhrawardy not to try and return to Pakistan, otherwise I shall make sure personally that he........

© The Express Tribune Blog