Karamat Ali (politician) explained

Shaikh Karamat Ali (died 8 September 1951) was a Pakistani Muslim League politician from Punjab, Pakistan.

Ali was a lawyer, by training.^[1] In the 1946 Punjab Provincial Assembly election, he stood as a Muslim League candidate from the North-Eastern Towns constituency, reserved for Muslims.^[2] Ali defeated the incumbent legislator —Maulvi Mazhar Ali Azhar, General Secretary of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam— comfortably, by a margin of about six thousand votes. In the Assembly, Ali opposed the Congress-Unionist coalition government, and was particularly noted for his animosity towards Hindus.^[3] Subsequently, he was elected by the Assembly to the Constituent Assembly of India but abdicated attendance until the Mountbatten Plan sanctioned the creation of Pakistan and its own constituent assembly.^{[4] [5]}

He continued to be a member of the inaugural Provincial Assembly of West Punjab and held the Ministries of Education, Public Works, Health, and Local Governance. C. October 1948, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan requested of Iftikhar Hussain Khan Mamdot —then Chief Minister of Pakistan— to dismiss Ali, on allegations of corruption but Mamdot, facing intense factionalism, did not agree.^[6] Ali died on 8 September 1951, suffering from protracted illness.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Government of Punjab . First Legislative Assembly of Punjab (August 15, 1947 to January 25, 1949) .
2. Home Political. National Archive of India. https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/2717131. HOME_POLITICAL_I_1945_NA_F-79-46. Vol. I of Press Information Bureau's Morgue and Ref Series: (1) Analysis of the Results of General Elections to the Central and Provincial Legislatures Held In 1945-46 (2) Indian Political Parties, and (3) Provincial Minstries 1937-45.
3. Book: Jalal, Ayesha . Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850 . Routledge . 2000 . 0415220777 . 471 . en . At the crossroads of 'Pakistan'.
4. Book: Rao, B. Shiva . The Framing of India's Constitution: Select Documents . The Indian Institute of Public Administration . 1968 . I . Nasik, India . 308 . en.
5. Book: The Commonwealth Relations Office List 1952 . Her Majesty's Stationery Office . 1952 . London . 171 . en . Pakistan.
6. Book: TNA: FO 479/2 -- Towards a Ceasefire in Kashmir: British Official Reports from South Asia, 18 September – 31 December 1948 . Routledge . 2018 . 9780429491658 . Carter . Lionel . London . Pakistan: Monthly Appreciation of General Situation for October 1948.
7. "Condolence on the demises of Sheikh Karamat Ali and Mr. Serajul Islam" in The Pakistan Constituent Assembly Debates (1951)