Begum jahanara shahnawaz biography of william

Begum jahanara shahnawaz role in pakistan movement

B egum Jahanara Shahnawaz was born on 7th April in Lahore. She studied at Queen Mary College, Lahore. She refused and was thus removed from the Muslim League. However, she rejoined the League in and in that same year was elected to the Central Constituent Assembly. That year she also went along with M. Ispahani on a goodwill mission to America, to explain the point of view of the Muslim League.

She was arrested along with other Muslim League leaders during the Civil disobedience movement in Punjab in In , she led a protest of thousands of women in the streets of Lahore, protesting against the fact that a bill encouraging better economic opportunities for women had been removed from the agenda. She was the first woman in Asia to preside over a legislative session.

She was also associated with the education and orphanage committees of the Anjuman-i-Himayat-i-Islam, in Lahore, and with several hospitals, as well as maternity and child welfare committees. Jahanara Shahnawaz wrote a novel titled Husn Ara Begum and her memoirs titled Father and Daughter: a political autobiography.