Islamia College Peshawar
\nPESHAWAR: Islamia College Peshawar carried a unique distinction among educational institutions of Khyber Pakthunkhwa that had been visited by father of the nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah three times in his life by playing great tribute to its students\u2019 role during Pakistan Movement. Established in the foothills of Koh-e-Sufaid in 1913, Islamia College Peshawar (ICP) which saw Independence Movement, here Monday attracted students on Pakistan Day where they presented rich tributes to its students\u2019 historic role in completion of Quaid e Azam\u2019s mission for Pakistan. APP
\nImpressed by the ICP\u2019s students\u2019 heroic role in mobilization of the denizens of Khyber Pakthunkhwa for Pakistan, the students of different Govt and private schools visited different sections of ICP including Khyber Union, a debating society of the college established in pre-partition era that was also visited by father of the nation Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The students highly praised its great services in awakening of people for Pakistan.
\nStudents Ibrahim Khan, Anaya Bibi, Ismail Khan and Bilawal along with others were over the moon after seeing the tall beautiful domes, lush-green lawns and majestic architecture of ICP grabbing visitors\u2019 attention while passing on the University Road.
\nDeclaring ICP\u2019s identity of Peshawar, the students said that they have heard a lot about this historic college of Khyber Pakthunkhwa and today their dream to see it on own eyes was fulfilled by their fathers and relatives. \u201cI thanked my papa jan for helping me to see my favorite\u2019s college today with my own eyes,\u201d said seven year old Ibrahim Khan, a resident of Nowshera.
\n\u201cGetting admission in ICP is a dream of every student of KP. I will definitely try to get admission in my favorite college after qualifying the metric examination with a high score,\u201d said Anaya Bibi, a sixth grade student of a private school at Peshawar.
\nHolding a torch of education for 113 long years, ICP is carrying the national flag hoisting high on occasion of 86th Pakistan Day that celebrated with national enthusiasm across Pakistan including Khyber Pakthunkhwa.
\nBeing a beautiful combination of Aligarh Movement of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Deoband School of Thoughts, ICP is a mere testimony to the greatness of its Founder, Nawab Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Khan, said Muhammad Yousaf Khan, Chairman Pakistan Studies Department, ICP.
\nYousaf said ICP had provided a unique platform to KP\u2019s people to compete with other communities in education, civil service, economy and politics after they were pushed to the wall during the colonial era, adding great educationist Sir Abdul Qayyum Khan has played key role in its establishment.
\n\u201cThe idea to establish a college clicked in the minds of Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Khan, leader of Muslim League, and Sir George Roos-Keppel, the then Chief Commissioner of NWFP (now KP) in early 1909 when they met the Pathan students during their visit to the Muslim University Aligarh,\u201d writes ex-principal ICP, Prof G.D. Khilji in his memoirs.
\nThe students requested them either to construct a Frontier hostel at Aligarh or a college may be built for them in then NWFP (now KP). As a token, the students raised around sixty rupees and gave them to Roos Keppel to form a Frontier Hostel fund or any other project.
\nLater, Keppel passed the money on to Nawab Sahib. It was April 12, 1911 when philanthropists Ghulam Haider Khan, Habibullah Khan, Khushal Khan, Sethi Karim Bakhsh and Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum gathered at the residence of Abdul Karim Khan Indrabai in Peshawar.
\nHaji Karim Bakhsh Sethi offered to build a mosque, Rahim Shah Kakakhel promised to construct a hostel and Abdul Karim Khan donated Rs 10,000, Sethi Karim Bakhsh Rs.50,000 and Nawab of Dir promised Rs100,000 for the college fund.\u2019
\nLater, a 10-member ad-hoc college committee under the chairmanship of Colonel Muhammad Aslam Khan was set up on May 29, 1911 to table proposals for establishment of the college.
\nLeading Khans and Ulema were invited and seven resolutions including one to title the college as \u2018Darul-Ulum-i-Islamia Suba-i-Sarhad\u2019 were unanimously passed. A committee was constituted to select a suitable site for the college. The proposal of a college at Wazir Bagh was rejected by Ross Keppel as he wanted to spare the place of recreation.
\nSahibzada Abdul Qayyum in consultation with Ross Keppel selected the existing place for ICP. On October 1, 1913, ICP was opened with 26 students on roll and Sahibzada Khurshid was the first student who got admission and later became the Governor of then NWFP and Tipping (1913-17) was its first Principal.
\n\u201cLike students of Aligarh Movement who were in the vanguard of the independence movement in India, so were the students of Islamia College, Peshawar for the creation of Pakistan,\u2019 said Muhammad Younas.
\nQuaid-i-Azam had an immense love for people of KP, ICP and visited this college in 1936, 1945 and in 1948 as first Governor General of Pakistan.
\nIn 1945, Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had received a rousing welcome at ICP where students and Muslim Students Federation (MSF) presented him Rs 8,000 as fund for Pakistan Movement.
\n\u201cThey assured him to present 8,000 committed educated workers when he came again to this great alma-mater.\u201d
\nYounas said, \u2018KP people had shown an immense love for Quaid-i-Azam and that is why Muslim League secured maximum seats in the 1946 election and after that historic victory nobody could stop the independence movement from this province.\u2019
\n\u2018In July 1947 Referendum, Muslim League clinched landslide victory in KP by securing over 200,000 votes and its people announced to become part of Pakistan,\u2019 he said.
\n\u2018The spirit and enthusiasm of people was historic when Quaid e Azam came to Peshawar as first governor general of Pakistan on April 12, 1948. Peshawarities had decorated their houses, markets, vehicles and bazaars with national flags looking festive.
\nThe great Quaid presented glowing tributes to the services of its students towards making Pakistan in these words. \u2018I am indeed very happy to be present here today and to have the privilege of addressing students of this great Darul Uloom, who are the future builders of Pakistan.\u2019
\nHe reminded the students, \u2018we had achieved the national goal of Pakistan and now it is our collective responsibility to work hard in our respective professions with a high-level of dedication, commitment and sincerity to make it one of the greatest countries of the world.\u2019
\nHe advised students to develop a sound sense of discipline, character, solid academic background and devote themselves towards studies. \u2018Remember your government is like your own garden. Your garden flourishes by the way you look after it and the efforts that you put towards its improvement. Similarly, your government can only flourish by your patriotic, honest and constructive efforts to improve it,\u2019 he told students.
\nFollowing a gap of one year, the Government had established University of Peshawar near ICP in 1949 in line with the Quaid\u2019s vision and later two more universities UET and Agriculture University were formed besides Pakistan Forest Institute.
\nHe said the great Quaid also addressed a Grand Tribal Jira at Governor House, Peshawar on April 17, 1948 and highly praised strong commitment, patriotism and support of tribesmen for Pakistan. He laid great emphasis on education and social economic development of tribesmen.
\nThe love of Quaid-i-Azam, who became an honorary member of Khyber Union debating society of the college set up in 1936, can be judged from his \u201cWill\u201d written on May 30, 1939 in Bombay in which he declared ICP, Muslim University Aligarh and Sindh Madrassatul Islam, Karachi as among the inheritor of his property.
\nLater, Quaid Trust paid Rs10,811,600 in different installments to ICP that was spent on construction of Quaid-i-Azam College of Commerce, University of Peshawar, construction of Jinnah residential quarters for employees, Jinnah College for Women and newly constructed Takbeer block at ICP.
\nThe college was closed for about three weeks in 1919 due to the second Afghan War and students were shifted to Shahi Mehman Khana, Peshawar. It was again closed for a few days in 1920 due to the Non-Cooperation Movement.
\nQuaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Roosevelt of the USA, first Governor of KP Sir Ralph Griffith, renowned writer of Turkiye Khalida Adeeb Khanum, leader of All Indian Muslim League Sir Muhammad Shafi, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, Governor then NWFP George Cunningham and Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar besides others remained its honorary members.
\nAccording to the Board of Trustees (BoT), the college owns about 544.5 acres of cultivable land in Charsadda, 395 shops, and flats in Khyber bazar Peshawar and Charsadda.
\nThe college\u2019s clock tower, now Peshawar\u2019s pride symbol, has long figured on the back of an Rs.1000 currency note. ICP is a unique educational institution in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where students from KG to a Ph.D. level were getting a quality education and contributing to the prosperity of Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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