Chaudhry Sir Shahab-ud-Din Virk (died 1946) was a Punjabi lawyer and politician of

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Biography

Virk was born into a

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family in

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, British India. He was educated at Government College University in

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. In 1912 he was elected to Lahore Municipal Committee. He became a member of the

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in 1923, and was elected President for three consecutive terms between 1925 and 1936. He was made a

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in the New Year Honours list of 1930. In 1936 the Council was replaced by the Punjab Legislative Assembly, and Virk served as the Speaker of the Assembly between April 1937 and March 1945.The Punjab Parliamentarians 1897-213, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, Lahore - Pakistan, 2015 He died in Lahore in 1946.

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