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came to be known as the Line of Control. He had also served as prime
minister in the princely state of Bahawalpur before partition. He left for the
eternal abode in 1981.

On May 7, 1980 Nawab Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani established Gurmani
Foundation to provide support to the underprivileged students. With the
same objective, the Gurmani Foundation has established an endowment
fund worth Rs 1 billion at the Lahore University of Management Sciences
(LUMS). This was the largest single gift ever received by the LUMS, and may
well be the single largest gift ever given to an educational institute in
Pakistan.
The Gurmani Foundation is undertaking a number of community welfare
projects, mostly in the field of education, in Muzaffargarh too.
NAWABZADA NASRULLAH KHAN

During his lifetime, Nawabzada Nasrullah
Khan was a consistent voice of dissent
and a crusading democrat against
authoritarian regimes. Such regimes
feared him more than any other
opposition leader because of his uncanny
ability to unite diverse parties around the
fundamentals of the rule of law, the
constitution, and the right of people to
govern themselves.

Born into a feudal family of Khangarh in
1918, he was sent to the elite Aitchison
College, Lahore in 1928 where he
continued to study till 1933. His entry
into politics came through joining a
religiously inclined, but anti-colonial
political party, Majlis-e-Ahrar, the same
year. He was also present in the annual
session of the All India Muslim League on March 23, 1940 in which the
famous Lahore Resolution, which later came to be known as Pakistan
Resolution, was passed.

After independence, he switched over to the Muslim League, from whose
platform he successively won 1952 provincial and 1962 national assembly
elections.

It was during General Ayub Khan's military rule (1958-69) that he started to
make his mark on national politics. He joined the opposition party, Jinnah
Awami League, which was later on renamed as Awami League. He was
selected as its vice president when Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardi was the

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