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Abid Hassan Minto was born on 3 February, 1932 in Murree, British India, is a Pakistani lawyer, politician, and critic. Discover Abid Hassan Minto's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

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Occupation Lawyer · human rights activist · workers rights · activist
Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 3 February 1932
Birthday 3 February
Birthplace Murree, British India
Nationality India

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1932

Abid Hassan Minto also known as Abid Minto (عابد حسن منٹو) (born 3 February 1932) is a constitutional expert and senior lawyer of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, and former president of the Awami Workers Party.

He is also a literary critic and a leftwing civic and political leader.

1947

After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, he played a key role in establishing the first literary movement of Lahore, namely Halqa-e Arbab-e Zauq (Circle of the Men of Good Taste).

1949

Minto became a member of the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) in 1949 and remained with it until it was banned in 1954 after the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case along with the Democratic Students Federation (DSF) which was also co-founded by Minto in 1949 while at Gordon College.

The DSF had been popular in all four provinces and was succeeded, after its ban, by the National Students Federation (NSF) which exists to date.

In his younger days Minto was an active trade unionist and organised the Military Engineering Service (MES) Workers Union.

He worked for the Attock Oil Company Workers Union in Rawalpindi and the Railway Workers Union which was led by Mirza Muhammad Ibrahim, a veteran trade union leader of South Asia.

Abid Hassan Minto joined the Progressive Writers Association (PWA) in 1949.

He has been active and associated with the Progressive Writers' Movement for many years.

1951

His first essay "The Issue of Language in Pakistan" was published in 1951 in the literary journal Adb e Latif (ادب لطیف).

1955

He received his law degree (LL.B) from the Punjab University Law College in 1955.

While at Law College, he was elected President of the Students Union and won and retained the title of "Best All Pakistan Debater" for four years.

He served as the president of Law College's debating society and also worked as a writer in the college's official magazine "Al-Meezan"

Minto began law practice in 1955 at Rawalpindi where his father and, before him, his grandfather had also practised.

1957

His essay The Technique of the One Act Playایکانکی ڈرامہ (Adb e Latif 1957ادب لطیف) was part of the curriculum for graduate studies in Urdu literature.

Abid Hassan Minto's favorite writers are Rajinder Singh Bedi and Saadat Hasan Manto.

Abid Hassan Minto also happens to be one of the grandnephews of Saadat Hasan Manto.

He prefers to spell his family name as Minto rather than Manto.

1958

He moved to Lahore in 1958, was admitted, Advocate of the Lahore High Court in 1957 and of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1963.

He remains a practising lawyer and is the Senior Consultant to "Minto and Mirza, a Lahore based law firm.

Minto conducted several cases of constitutional, political and legal importance.

These include:

Minto has appeared in a large number of cases involving issues such as:

Some of the other issues in Minto's legal battles include:

1963

He was professor of law at the Law College of the Punjab University (Punjab University Law College) 1963 to 1983.

Minto belongs to the Marxist school of thought in politics and in his writings.

Minto was born in Murree, British India, present-day Pakistan.

He attended Islamia High School, Rawalpindi and Gordon College.

1966

His legal career spans over 50 years during which he was elected member of the Pakistan Bar Council from 1966 up to 1983; President, Lahore High Court Bar Association (1982); Chairman, National Coordination Committee of Lawyers (1981 to 1985) and President, Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan (SCBA) (1997 to 1999).

1967

Minto was a member of the Central Executive of the Pakistan Trade Union Federation (affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions) from 1967–1986.

Minto's ties with local peasant movements are in place to date.

Along with veteran peasant leader Chaudhry Fateh Muhammad, he has worked to organise Kissan (peasant) Committees (کسان کمیٹی) in rural Punjab.

These committees provide local farmers with a platform for discussion and action in respect to the problems faced by them in Pakistan's agrarian society where ownership of land vests predominantly in big landowners.

1979

The Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan is a Federal Government institution, established under an Ordinance (XIV) of 1979.

The commission is headed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan and comprises 12 other members including the Chief Justices of the superior courts, Attorney General for Pakistan, Secretary, Ministry of Law, Justice & Human Rights and Chairperson, National Commission on the Status of Women and others.

Each province is represented by one member.

Minto serves on the commission as the member from Punjab.

1986

Other essays by him, later published as a collection "Nuqta e Nazarنقطہ نظر" (The Viewpoint: 1st Edition 1986 2nd Edition 2003) include: The Problem of Religious Literature (Shahrah شاہراہ 1954); Literary Criticism (Adb e Latif 1954ادب لطیف); The Issue of Ideologies in Literature (Adb e Latif 1955ادب لطیف); Progressive Ideology and Contemporary Literature (Adb e Latif 1960ادب لطیف); Problems of Modern Poetry (Nayee Shairi 1964نئ شاعری) and Eternal Values in Literature (Auraq 1967اوراق).

1990

Minto has also been affiliated with the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) in which he was elected vice-president at its Barcelona Congress (1990) and Bureau Member at its Cape Town Congress (1995).

2012

In March 2012 Minto was appointed a member of the LJCP (Law & Justice Commission of Pakistan).