Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan
| Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan چودہری نیاز علی خان 1880–1976 |
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28 June 1880 Mahilpur, Punjab, British Indian Empire |
| Died | 24 February 1976 (aged 95) Jauharabad, Pakistan |
| Citizenship | Pakistani (post-1947) British Indian (pre-1947) |
| Occupation | civil engineer, civil servant, landowner, agriculturalist and philanthropist |
| Known for | Founding the Dar ul Islam Movement & Trust and support of Pakistan Movement |
| Children | Muhammad Aslam Khan (son) Khan Muhammad Azam (son) Jamila (daughter) Salima (daughter) Saadat (daughter) |
Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan (Urdu: چودہری نیاز علی خان) (born 1880 – died 1976), founder of the Dar ul Islam Movement and the Dar ul Islam Trust in South Asia and the Dar ul Islam Trust Institutes in Pathankot, India and Jauharabad, Pakistan, was a civil engineer, civil servant, landowner, agriculturalist and philanthropist. He was a member of the All-India Muslim League and a supporter of the Pakistan Movement, which led to the establishment of the Muslim state of Pakistan in 1947.
The Dar ul Islam Trust Institutes established by Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan are examples of Muslim institutional efforts in India and Pakistan in the mid-20th Century to re-establish a culture of learning and scholarship in the Islamic World leading to intellectual enlightenment and social reform.
As a civil engineer, he designed the original tunnel layout inside the Khewra Salt Mines in Pakistan, the world's second largest salt mines.
Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan was born in Mahilpur, Hoshiarpur District, Punjab in the British Indian Empire on 28 June 1880. He was the eldest of four brothers. He had a strict upbringing and that he grow up to become an educated professional.
Between 1896 and 1900, Khan studied at The Thomason College of Civil Engineering in Roorkee and was awarded a degree in civil engineering.
Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan was an expert equestrian and used to ride regularly, on occasions up to 40–50 kilometres a day. He was also a photography enthusiast and had accumulated a vast collection of cameras and used to develop his own photographs.
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