Mahmud Hussain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mahmud Hussain

Pakistani academic and politician

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1907

Place of Birth: Kaimganj, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Death: 12-Apr-1975

Profession: politician, historian

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Mahmud Husain Khan Afridi (5 July 1907 – 12 April 1975) was a Pakistani academic, educationist, and politician, credited with pioneering the study of social sciences in Pakistan.A supporter of the Pakistan Movement, he was a member of the country's first Constituent Assembly.
He was appointed Minister of State for both Defence and Foreign Affairs in 1949, and later served as Minister for Education from 1952 to 1953, when he quit politics over the assembly's dissolution. Returning to academia, Husain taught as visiting professor at Heidelberg University and Columbia University during the 1960s.
He served as vice-chancellor of Dhaka University from 1960 to 1963, and of Karachi University from 1967 until his death in 1975.
A proponent of greater rights for East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, Hussain emerged a vocal but unsuccessful critic of Pakistan's military action in 1971.