LAHORE  - Nawab Waqarul Mulk Mushtaq Hussain played an important role in mobilising the All-India Muslim League. He expressed himself quite openly and courageously on every matter of national importance.
Professor Dr Parveen Khan expressed these views in a special lecture on the death anniversary of the All-India Muslim League leader Nawab Waqarul Mulk Mushtaq Hussain in connection with the series of lectures being held at the Aiwan-i-Karkunaan-i-Tehreek-i-Pakistan jointly organised by the Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust and the Pakistan Movement Workers Trust.
Prof Khan observed that the Nawab’s real name was Mushtaq Hussain. He was born in 1841 in a village of Distt Muradabad. Having got educated in Arabic and Persian at Amroha, he became a school teacher. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan took him in as his reader in 1861. He rose to the position of judicial commissioner at the civil court. Nizam Deccan conferred on him the title of “Waqar-ul-Mulk”. He was elected secretary of the Ali Garh College. He toured across India to impress on the Muslims the need for establishing a separate political party.
His “Muhammadan Political Association” founded in 1903 became the All-India Muslim League in 1906. He presided over the founding session of the All-India Muslim League at Dhaka in December 1906.
He collected a huge amount of money to raise the status of the M.A.O. College Ali Garh to “Muslim University”. His speeches and addresses were pithy and full of wisdom which were published in the magazine “Tehzeeb-ul-Akhlaq” along with his literary and intellectual thesis. He breathed his last on January 27, 1917 at Amroha.