Chaudhry Afzal Haq (1891–8 January 1942) was born in a Muslim family, a writer, humanitarian, leader and co-founder of

Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam ( ur, مجلس احرارلأسلام), also known in short as Ahrar, is a religious Muslim political party in the Indian subcontinent that was formed during the British Raj (prior to the Partition of India) on 29 Dece ...

, and a senior political figure in the history of

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. He worked to help the poor and unrepresented in the

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ...

. He founded Ahrar with Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari. He was elected three times for the Punjab Assembly. He was a

Member of the Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. ...

of India. He was known as Mufakkir-e-Ahrar "Thinker of the Ahrar Party". He wrote many books such as '' Zindagi'', ''Mehbub-e-Khuda'', ''Deen-e-Islam'', ''Azadi-e-Hind'', ''Mera Afsanah'', ''Jawahraat'', ''Mashooqa-e-Punjab'', ''Shaoor'', ''Dehati rooman'', ''Pakistan and untouchability'', ''Taareekh-e-Ahrar'', ''Dunya may dozakh'', ''Islam and Socialism'', etc. He died on 8 January 1942, in Lahore.

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1942 deaths Indian political writers 1891 births Punjabi people People from Hoshiarpur district Presidents of Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam {{PunjabIN-politician-stub