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Revision as of 21:37, 13 December 2009 by Acejet (talk | contribs) (→References)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Barrister Jan Muhammad Junejo: (Urdu:جان محمد جونيجو, title: Raees-Ul-Muhajireen: رۂيس المھاجرين) born in 1886 Larkana, Sindh. was a prominent leader of the Khilafat Movement and took active part in their struggle against the British Raj. He died "soon after" February 1921.
Barrister Junejo was leading landlord and politician from larkana took a strong part in Tehreek khilafat in very young age and the larg number of intending muhajireen begain to register their name and 25 thousand originally announced accompanied by their families, left for Peshawar under Barrister Junejo. Ttempt to stop them did not succeed. The rail fare of the entire kafila amounting to thousand of rupees was paid by Barrister Junejo from his own packet. wherever the train stop the emotional scene were witnessed the local turned out to welcome the thousands of muhajireens who were garlanded and showered with gifts and money speeches were made and recited in their honour at the wazirabad junction when some people begain to cry in response to such overtures Barrister Junejo stopped them from doing so saying that it was not the ocasin for the crying but time for action, they are going to kabul not to eat grapes and pomegranates of kandahar but to save Islam.
References
- Qureshi, M. Naeem. Pan-Islam in British Indian Politics: A Study of the Khilafat Movement, 1918-1924. Brill Academic Publishers. p. 224. ISBN 9789004113718.
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