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regime, Nawabzada breathed his last on September 26, 2003 in Shifa
International Hospital of Islamabad, following a heart attack.

Though Nawabzada was more known as a politician, he was a man of letters
too. Not only he was a poet himself, and produced 2 volumes of his poetry,
but also remembered hundreds of other verses, both Urdu and Persian, by
heart. He had a distinctive appearance with a dark achkan, Turkish cap and
a huqqa. He did his politics from a sitting room in his modest house on
Nicholson Road in Lahore, where he held meetings and met visitors for many
years. True to Muzaffargarh and southern Punjab traditions, his gift of
mangoes used to reach houses of politicians and other prominent persons of
all shades of opinion every summer.

Nawabzada was a political leader of the highest calibre and the last of the old
breed of politicians who stood for principles, civility, tolerance and
democratic values. Above all, he was a great human being. With his demise
in 2003, that chapter of our political history has been closed for ever.
Embodiment of simplicity and humility, he continues to live in the hearts of
people of Pakistan. Muzaffargarh feels immensely proud to have produced
such a son of the soil. Conferment of ‘Nishan-e-Muzaffargarh’ posthumously
on him during Shan-e-Muzaffargarh Awards 2019 may not have done any
good to him but enhanced the prestige and credibility of the award itself.

JUSTICE (R) TASSADUQ HUSSAIN JILLANI
Justice (R) Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, the
21st Chief Justice of Pakistan, was born
on July 6, 1949 to a family that belonged
to Khangarh. He got his education from
Multan and Lahore, and started his
professional career as a lawyer in 1974.
He was appointed Advocate General
Punjab in 1993, Judge of the Lahore
Court in 1994, and Judge of the Supreme
Court of Pakistan in 2004. He also
remained acting Chief Election
Commissioner for around 4 months in
2013.

On November 7, 2007, Justice Jillani
was one of those senior judges of the
Supreme Court who refused to take a
fresh oath following the imposition of
emergency rule by General Pervez
Musharraf. In consequence, Justice
Jillani, along with other judges, was forcefully retired and kept under
detention. The move exacerbated the Lawyers' Movement against the

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