Shahab-ud-Din Virk

Chaudhry Shahabuddin was born into a Muslim Jat family of the Virk tribe{{cite book | last=Talbot | first=I. | title=Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-136-79029-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KtJcAgAAQBAJ | access-date=2023-07-24 | page=97 | quote=Sir Shahabuddin was a Virk Jat}} hailing from Sialkot District in what was then Punjab, British India.{{cite book | title=Contemporary Problems of Pakistan | publisher=Brill | series=International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology | year=2022 | isbn=978-90-04-47468-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uJxjEAAAQBAJ | access-date=2023-07-24 | page=15 | quote=Chaudhury Sir Shahabuddin , a Jat from Sialkot District}}

He was educated at Government College University in Lahore. In 1912 he was elected to Lahore Municipal Committee. He became a member of the Punjab Legislative Council in 1923, and was elected President for three consecutive terms between 1925 and 1936.The Punjab Parliamentarians 1897-213, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, Lahore - Pakistan, 2015 He was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours list of 1930.The Edinburgh Gazette, 7 January 1930. In 1936 the Council was replaced by the Punjab Legislative Assembly, and Virk served as the Speaker of the Assembly between April 1937 and March 1945.The Punjab Parliamentarians 1897-213, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, Lahore - Pakistan, 2015 He died in Lahore in 1946.

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