Shahab-ud-Din Virk explained

Khan Bahadur Chaudhry Sir Shahab-ud-Din Virk (died 1946) was a Punjabi lawyer and politician of British India.

Biography

Chaudhry Shahabuddin was born into a Muslim Jat family of the Virk tribe^[1] hailing from Sialkot District in what was then Punjab, British India.^[2]

He was educated at Government College University in Lahore. In 1912 he was elected to Lahore Municipal Committee. He became a member of the Punjab Legislative Council in 1923, and was elected President for three consecutive terms between 1925 and 1936.^[3] He was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours list of 1930.^[4] 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.^[5] He died in Lahore in 1946.

Notes and References

1. Book: Talbot, I. . Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India . Taylor & Francis . 2013 . 978-1-136-79029-4 . 2023-07-24 . 97 . Sir Shahabuddin was a Virk Jat.
2. Book: Contemporary Problems of Pakistan . Brill . International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology . 2022 . 978-90-04-47468-0 . 2023-07-24 . 15 . Chaudhury Sir Shahabuddin, a Jat from Sialkot District.
3. The Punjab Parliamentarians 1897-213, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, Lahore - Pakistan, 2015
4. The Edinburgh Gazette, 7 January 1930.
5. The Punjab Parliamentarians 1897-213, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, Lahore - Pakistan, 2015