Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana

The king who was owed a country, but choose his pride:

Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana was born into the celebrated Tiwana Rajput family of Shahpur as the son of Malik Umar Hayat Khan, the warrior who proved his worth in battles from Europe to Somalia to Tibet.

After serving with the British Indian Army in the Great War and the Third Anglo-Afghan War, Khizar joined the public life at the age of 37, in the year 1937, two years after the historic Government of India Act 1935, which gave real power to the natives in the British India for the first time. Despite being quite young and inexperienced, by that day's standards, as the Minister of Public Works and Local Self Government he proved his mettle. Owing to the excellent services he rendered in his ministerial position, he quickly rose to becoming the Minister of Interior.

In the year 1942, when the world was possibly in most uncertain times in perhaps a thousand years, when the German juggernaut strangling the Southern Russia, and British Empire's future looked darker than a cloudy new moon night, he became the Prime Minister of Punjab.

Punjab paid, perhaps, the heaviest price, of the British military failures in the war. Mother after mother lost their sons, wife after wife lost their husband, and child after child became fatherless. There was widespread frustration and demoralization. While the world keeps praising Churchill with how he stood tall against the darkest hour of the British history, and kept his country together, is it not dishonourable that it conveniently forgot how much worse were he conditions in Indian Subcontinent, specially Punjab, and how the Lion of Shahpur stood taller than Himalayas in these trying times?

Jinnah played his dirty tricks with him. He wanted a forced integration of the Unionist Party with the Muslim League. Jinnah, asked the Lion of Shahpur, the Emperor of Punjab, to change the name of his party from the Unionist Party to the Muslim League Coalition Party. Khizar refused, he reminded Jinnah he was the leader of the Muslims, not he, and he was in the alliance with the Hindus and Sikhs.

He knew Pakistan was a reality. He could have ruled Pakistan. All he had to do is comply with Jinnah and his ideology. Why did he not do that? The small time leaders and Zameendars of the Unionist Party, and its de facto Sindhi branch United Party ruled Pakistani political and military life, to this day, why then, its leader, who could have got the most out of the creation of Pakistan, stood against Jinnah?

He stood by his ideology of standing against the policy of the two nation theory and he paid with his future, his life and his legacy. Despite everything the league did against him, all the demonization, and being declared a Kafir by them, which for a devout Musalman, was a great slander.

He scarified his life, his future, and his legacy so that we North-Westerners never forget who we are and what our ancestors stand for.

Let's celebrate the sacrifice of of Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana, who sacrificed even his ancestral lands for his pride, his honor, and his ideology. This is what a Rajput is. This is what a King is. He knew he would be proven right.

And proven right he was! Bengalis of 'East Pakistan', who were instrumental in the creation of Pakistan conspired against it. They took the help of the Indians, the very country they wanted to separate from to create East Pakistan as a part of a United Pakistan, the land for Muslims of all over the world, especially South Asia! The people of our race and our tribes are ours before a foreigner, and this is what was proven in the end. Khizar was right. Jinnah was wrong.

Long live Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana, the EMPEROR OF PUNJAB, and the LAST EMPEROR OF PUNJAB. May you be raised to highest of the paradises in the hereafter. And shall we follow his lead and create a new order with those who are our own, against the oppression of those who aren't ours.