Sindh History (25th August)

 

SINDH IN HISTORY TODAY (25th AUGUST)

25th August
 BIRTH DATES

Pir Mian Ghulam Nabi ‘Pinyal’ (Hala/Saint & Poet/1852),

Tolaram Bhalumal (Social worker/1899),

 Bhojraj Vichani (Dhabhro > Mombai/Writer/1937),

Naimullah ‘Sabir’ Qureshi (Shikarpur/Poet/1952),

 Allah Bachayo Panhwar (Dhotra Panhwar/Writer/1955),

Dr. Abdullah Arijo (Khair Muhammad Arija/Scholar/1962),

Shahzada Imran (Gul Muhammad Magsi/Writer/1978)

 

DEATH DATES

  Allama Atullah Ferozshahi (Religious Scholar/1907),

‘Durwesh’ Sitai (Poet/1986), Zaib Soomro (Poet/1987),

 

EVENTS

 

    1839: Colonel Pottenger writes to Officer Commanding at Karachi desiring him to receive one State prisoner by name ‘Sehee Durwesh’ and take necessary steps of transporting him to Bushire and set him at liberty there. The attention of readers is invited to an important point that Colonel Pottenger is in Sindh and Sindh is under rule of Talpurs but, he is using his judicial, political and administrative powers in 1839 much before fall of Miani. (Source: indicated).
1843: The Sindh Governor apprises the Governor-General of the procedure of conducting trial in Sindh. He informs him that in all cases involving capital punishment which called for trial the prisoners were brought before a Military Court of British Officers and it is the best course in the absence of Judicial system in Sindh at present. (Source: indicated).
1939: Some of Sindh Congress leaders and other politicians deplore the decision of the Congress Working Committee and aspiration og the Congress leaders disqualifying Sj. Subhas Chandra Bose’s from being President of Bengal Provincial Congress Committee and being a member of any elective Congress body for three years. (Source: Newspapers).
1946: Politicians express their reaction on the matter of ‘interim Government’. Master Tara Sing, the Akali leader is satisfied to see that this interim Government consists of representatives of some of largest political parties of India. Dr.B.R.Ambrdkar refuses to accept the interim Government as representative of Scheduled Castes, and Gandhi blames that League leaders in reaction against the interim Government have started preaching violence and now violence in Calcutta has erupted because of this. (Source: The Indian Annual Register, Vol-11,1946).
1955: Muslim League Parliamentary Party serves Show Cause notice on Mian Jaffar Shah for opposing ‘One-Unit’. (Source: Newspapers).
1977: Ex-Director-General of Health Services Dr. Naseer Shaikh and Ex-Director-General of FSF Masud Mahmood are arrested. Stage is being set to arrest Z.A.Bhutto. (Source: Newspapers).