Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas

Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas (4 February 1904 – 18 December 1967) was a leading politician of Jammu and Kashmir and the President of the Muslim Conference party. After his migration to Pakistan administered Kashmir in 1947, he became the head of the Azad Kashmir (AJK) government.

Early life and career Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas was born to Chaudhry Nawab Khan in a middle-class Rajput family in Jammu on 4 February 1904. He graduated from the Prince of Wales College, Jammu, and received law degree from the Lahore Law College. He started his career as a lawyer in Jammu.

He was the first person who delivered the first ever lecture of the FG Sir Syed College, The Mall, Rawalpindi, when the college started

Death and legacy Abbas died of stomach cancer in Rawalpindi on 18 December 1967 and was laid to rest in Faizabad near Rawalpindi, close to the capital city of Islamabad, Pakistan.

In 1995, Pakistan Postal Services issued a commemorative postage stamp to honor his services.

In 2006, a public event was organized in Rawalpindi, Pakistan to observe his death anniversary on 19 December 2006 where the leaders of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, Sardar Abdul Qayyum and Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan paid tributes to him.

In 2014, on the death anniversary of Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas, an event was organized at Aiwan-i-Karkunan-i-Tehreek-i-Pakistan in Lahore to pay tributes to this dedicated leader of Pakistan Movement and Kashmir liberation struggle.

Books By him Kashmakash, 2010. Autobiography.

About him Qāʼid-i Kashmīr : Chaudhrī G̲h̲ulām ʻAbbās, 1988, by Bashīr Aḥmad Quraishī. Ḥayāt-i Qāʼid-i Kashmīr, Chauhdrī G̲h̲ulām ʻAbbās, 1992, by Sayyid Mahmūd Āzād. Chauhdrī G̲h̲ulām ʻAbbās : Shak̲h̲ṣiyyat aur Kārnāme, 1992, by G̲h̲ulām Ḥusain Aẓhar. Qāʼid-i Millat Chauhdarī G̲h̲ulām ʻAbbās, 2004, by Javvād Ḥusain Jaʻfarī. Qāʼid-i Kashmīr aur Taḥrīk-i Kashmīr, 2005, by Muḥammad Yaʻqūb Chauhdarī.