Mirza Ibrahim

Mirza Mohammad Ibrahim (1905-11 August 1999) was a Pakistani leftist politician, trade union leader, poet, and writer. He was one of the important labor leaders based in the railway workshops of Mughalpura, Lahore.

Biography Mirza Ibrahim was born in 1905 in the village of Kala Gujran in Punjab Province, British India. In 1921, during his adolescence, Ibrahim was imprisoned for participating in the Khilafat Movement. Three years later, he moved to Rawalpindi and worked as a brick laborer, garden gardener, and railway worker. After relocating to Lahore in 1930, he became involved in the trade union movement, joined the Communist Party of India, and was elected president of the Railway Federation. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, he launched movements with railway workers for wage increases, which led to his arrest by the government of Pakistan. In the 1951 Punjab Provincial Assembly election, he contested from the Lahore railway constituency, though he lost to the candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League due to the opposition's electoral malpractice. Later, he was imprisoned in connection with the Rawalpindi conspiracy. and the Communist Party of Pakistan was banned in 1954, he joined the National Awami Party. He died on 11 August 1999.

Legacy In 2017, festivals were organized in the railway headquarters of Pakistan to commemorate him.