![]() ![]() ![]() The family later moved residence again in the 1970s to a small house in Azizabad, which later became the headquarters of Hussain's political party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM formerly Muhajir Qaumi Movement). The family subsequently left their government allotted residence and moved in with Nasir. Hussain's elder brother Nasir Hussain was later employed by the government and given a small quarter on Jehangir Road. They were provided with government housing in Abyssinia Lines reserved for muhajirs (people and families migrating from the Dominion of India). Upon emigrating to Pakistan, the family settled in Karachi. Hussain's parents were initially reluctant to leave everything behind in Agra to resettle in Pakistan but were later forced by Hussain's elder brother to reconsider. Hussain's siblings include four sisters and six brothers.įollowing the partition of India in 1947, a wide-scale migration of Muslims ensued, mostly from the various states in the Dominion of India to the newly established Dominion of Pakistan. His paternal grandfather Mohammad Ramazan was the Grand Mufti of Agra and his maternal grandfather Pir Haji Hafiz Rahim Bakhsh Qadri was a religious scholar. His father was an officer with the Indian Railways. Before the independence of Pakistan, Hussain's parents resided at their ancestral home in Nai ki Mandi, Agra, U.P., British India. 4 Operation Clean-up, ban and other chargesĪltaf Hussain was born on 17 September 1953 to Nazir Hussain and Khurseed Begum in Karachi.
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