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The Leaders of Pakistan Movement
edited by Awan and Hayat is to the history of Pakistan what the
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Hararie is to history of mankind and A
Brief History of time by Stephen Hawkings is to history of
cosmos-all the three tracing the evolutionary process of their
subject from its genesis to the apex.
Tracing varying dynamics of the
history of Freedom Movement or for that matter the different
reflections of the history of Pakistan was not an easy task to
be dispensed by any accustomed individual perfectly. To tackle
with this encyclopedic venture, the NIHCR pronounced to assemble
a galaxy of scholars to delve on the subject. In this pursuit an
international conference on the subject matter was organized on
December 30-31, 2007 in Islamabad. Forty-five papers were
presented in the conference. After a thorough scrutiny only
thirty four papers- twenty four in English and ten in Urdu—were
selected to be furnished on the pattern of the NIHCR
publication. Another marathon endeavor was invested on their
refinement, editing, proofreading and improvement to craft them
as publish worthy which was not less than almost rewriting of
the whole manuscript. It took more than a decade to bring the
first part of its present form as an anthology of source
orientation on the subject. Completion of the task however
requires a follow up of its second part in Urdu.
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Sajid Mahmood Awan is an
unconventional writer and keeps writing on the political,
social, historical and literary issues habitually. Presently he
is serving as Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute
of Historical and Cultural Research (NIHCR), Quaid-i-Azam
University, Islamabad. His first book The Collection of Multan
Records: Pre and Post-Independence Official Documents of Punjab
(1852-2004) was an outcome of a joint linkage project of the HEC
entitled “Multan Regional Studies Specialisation”. It was run in
collaboration with the Royal Holloway College, University of
London during his stay at the BZU, Multan. His second book
Muslim Worldview and Family Planning in Pakistan was published
in 2013 from the NIHCR. In 2014 he started the annual
publication of Pakistan Abstract of Social Sciences (PASS) of
which three volumes have appeared so far. He has published a
number of research articles in the reputed journals of social
science at home and abroad and has presented papers in the
national and international conferences. He also had the honour
to present Repertoire Report of three international conferences.
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Dr. Syed Umar Hayat did his
M.Sc., M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the Department of History,
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. The title of his M. Phil,
thesis was “Organization of Islamic Conference and the Palestine
Issue” under the supervision of late Prof. Dr. Waheed-uz-Zaman.
The title of his Ph.D. dissertation was “All-India Muslim League
in Bengal during 1937- 47” under the supervision of Prof. Dr.
Razia Sultana. He has the credit to be the Patron of the four
volume conference proceedings titled: Asian History, Culture and
Environment: Vernacular and Oriental Paradigms published by the
NIHCR. He has contributed research papers in the numerous HEC
recognized high quality journals of Pakistan. His major fields
of research are Freedom Movement, Politics, Sufism and
International Relations. He has contribute more than 25 research
papers on the aforementioned subjects in numerous high quality
research journals. He has already published an edited book
titled: “Quaid-i-Azam and Allamah Raghib Ahsan Correspondence
(1936-47)”. Another book authored by him on the Politics of the
All-India-Muslim League is being published shortly by the NIHCR.
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