Mian Aminuddin (
Punjabi, ur, میاں امین الدین) was a
civil servant
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in the
Indian Civil Service (British India)
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Its members ruled over more than 300 million p ...
and the first
Mayor
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of
Lahore
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, Pakistan.
[Profile of Qasim Zia, a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab (includes info about his grandfather Mian Aminuddin)]
Provincial Assembly of the Punjab website, Retrieved 16 January 2019 He also was the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan
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between 1949 and 1952.[Provinces of Pakistan (list of officeholders)]
Retrieved 16 January 2019
Early life and career
Mian Aminuddin was among the very few and early Muslim members of the Indian Civil Service (British India)
The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.
Its members ruled over more than 300 million p ...
.[EXCERPT: The founding fathers]
Dawn (newspaper), Published 7 August 2011, Retrieved 16 January 2019
"At independence Pakistan faced an acute shortage of experienced senior administrators. In the government of undivided India, there were only two Muslim ICS officers and one Muslim Indian Political Service (IPS) officer who had risen to the position of joint secretary, namely Mian Aminuddin (ICS, 1923), Ikramullah Khan (ICS, 1927), and Lieutenant (retired) Iskander Mirza."[British Indian Civil Service's Joint Secretary Mian Aminuddin on GoogleBooks]
Retrieved 16 January 2019
In Pakistan, Mian Aminuddin later served as Governor of Punjab, Pakistan
The Governor of Punjab is the appointed head of state of the provincial government in Punjab, Pakistan. Although the Governor is the head of the province on paper, it is largely a ceremonial position; and the main powers lie with the Chief Mini ...
also from 2 May 1953 to 24 June 1954.[
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See also
*Mian family of Baghbanpura
Belonging to the Arain tribe of Punjab region, they are an aristocratic noble family originally from Areha Jericho Modern Palestine who entered in Indian Subcontinent with Umayyad Arab General Muhammad bin Qasim. The family has made great contrib ...
References
Indian Civil Service (British India) officers
Governors of Punjab, Pakistan
Mayors of Lahore
Pakistan Cricket Board Presidents and Chairmen
Pakistani civil servants
People from Lahore
Punjabi people
Mian family
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