Regional Leaders and Movements of the Independence Struggle

The Pakistan Movement was supported by leaders and religious figures from every region of British India, not only from the centers of Aligarh, Lahore, and Delhi. LAT often tests which leader belonged to which province.

• Balochistan: Qazi Muhammad Isa was the leading political personality from Balochistan who participated in the Independence Movement; he belonged to the province of Balochistan. Mir Sohrab Khan is remembered as a great personality from Balochistan who sacrificed his life for national freedom.
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K.P.): Pir Sahib of Manki Sharif was the prominent religious figure from K.P. who actively participated in the Independence Movement, mobilizing support for the Muslim League and Pakistan.
• Sindh: The Hurs, a religious and political movement in Sindh, resisted English rule under the leadership of their spiritual head, Pir Sibghatullah, who was martyred while leading the Hurs against British rule. Also, the Sindh Muslim League passed the first resolution demanding a separate Muslim state in 1938, ahead of the rest of the League.
• Bengal: Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula, the last independent Nawab of Bengal (defeated by the British at Plassey in 1757), belonged to Bengal — a key figure in the region's pre-colonial history that set the stage for British expansion in India.
• Founder of Tehreek-e-Mujahedeen: Syed Ahmed Shaheed founded the Tehreek-e-Mujahedeen, an early 19th-century movement aimed at reviving Islamic rule and resisting non-Muslim domination in the Subcontinent. Syed Ahmed Shaheed was born in 1786 and was martyred in 1831 at the age of 44.

Why it matters: These 'who belonged to which province' and 'who led which regional movement' questions test breadth of knowledge across all of Pakistan's regions, not just Punjab/UP-centric history.