Aziz ul Haq (Pakistani activist)

For other people with the same name, see Azizul Haque (disambiguation).

Aziz ul Haq (24 January 1939 – 28 May 1972), also called Dr. Azizul Haque or Aziz-ul Haque, was a Marxist–Leninist communist activist from Pakistan and one of the notable literary icons of Pak Tea House.^[1][2][3]

He was the Chairman of the Young People's Front, a left-wing political organisation.^[2] He was born to a modest revolutionary Sufi Muslim family, from the ancient Mian Mir area of Lahore, Pakistan.^[3] He obtained his PhD degree from the University of British Columbia in western Canada in 1966.^[1]

Before his death, Haq had started crusading against the Pakistan Peoples Party, once Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto came to power and began his allegedly authoritarian rule.^[2] He was killed in Lahore during Bhutto's premiership in Pakistan.^[2]

References

1. green. "Dr Aziz-ul-Haq". Aziz-ul-Haq Thoughts. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
2. "Heady politics of the 1970s". 2019-01-15. Archived from the original on 15 January 2019. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
3. "When hope was alive". 2019-01-15. Archived from the original on 15 January 2019. Retrieved 2022-02-26.