Bahawalpur - Messages have been issued by Sir Sadiq Mohammad Khan Management Committee and Department of Studies Pakistan Islamic University Bahawalpur on the occasion of 55th birth anniversary of Nawab of Bahawalpur Sir Sadiq Mohammad Khan V.
Engineer Prof Dr Athar Mehboob Vice Chancellor has said that May 24 is the day of death of Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan V who was the last great Nawab of Bahawalpur State. The caste of Nawab Sir Sadiq Mohammad Khan V is a beacon for us. He fought hard for the establishment of Pakistan in his life and in this struggle he sacrificed everything.
Nawab Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan was the last great Nawab of the Fifth State of Bahawalpur which was established in 1828. This state emerged as one of the largest Muslim states in the region after the decline of Mughal period. Dedicated all the resources of Bahawalpur, when Pakistan came into being, there was no money to pay salaries to government employees, so Nawab Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan V opened the mouth of Bahawalpur State Bank for the State of Pakistan. He also integrated the army of his state of Bahawalpur into the army of Pakistan and played an important role in strengthening the defense of Pakistan.
In addition, Nawab Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan V provided all the resources of his state of Bahawalpur to resettle the refugees who migrated from the areas of India where Muslims were in a minority. He also founded a public school and allotted 500 acres of land. Nawab Sir sadiq Muhammad Khan V founded the Islamic University which later became the Islamia University Bahawalpur which played an important role in providing education and development to the people of the region.
Nawab Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan V is a hero in the true sense. In English, hero means one who perishes to achieve his goal, then we see in the person of Nawab Sir Sadiq that he sacrificed his state, his wealth and everything in order to get Pakistan for the Muslims of the subcontinent.
Dr. Aftab Hussain Gilani, Dean Faculty of Law and Honorary Secretary of Sir Sadiq Chairman Management Committee and Dr Muhammad Shahid Rizvi in their statements said that Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan was a man of taste, creative, sociable, eloquent and glorious ruler. With his style of governing, he left a lasting impression on the culture, livelihood and society of the state of Bahawalpur. In his time, the region was the cradle of religious and sectarian harmony, equality and tolerance, justice and knowledge and literature. He left no stone unturned in making Bahawalpur a modern, developed and prosperous state. In fact, the area had become a mini-Pakistan even before the formation of Pakistan. Thanks to educational and agrarian reforms, the people were comfortable. Thanks to special focus on areas such as education and public health, the social development of the area was exemplary. In fact, Nawab of Bahawalpur was a born ruler and from his childhood he had witnessed the glory of the British Empire and made a full and successful effort to apply the developments in Europe to this remote area.
The Nawab of Bahawalpur turned the desert into a chimney thanks to the Sutluj Valley project, which increased resources and revenue, modernized and strengthened institutions, paid close attention to military governance and improved the state’s ideological and geographical boundaries. There is a need to remember the life of Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan Al-Khamis as a shining example and to pass on the positive aspects to the new generation.
