What is Muhammad Hashim Gazdar?
{{unreferenced|date=June 2012}} {{Infobox Person | name = Muhammad Hashim Gazdar | image = Muhammad Hashim Gazdar.jpg | caption = | birth_date = 1895 | birth_place = [[Jaisalmer]], [[British India]] | death_date = 1966 | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | job = | relatives = | spouse = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Muhammad Hashim Gazdar''' ({{lang-ur|محمّد ہاشم گزدار}}) was a prominent [[politician]] of [[Pakistan]]. He was mayor of [[Karachi]] and a former member of the Bombay Legislative Council from Sindh constituency. ==Early life== He was originally from Rajputana and led the Marwari group in Karachi politics. He was born in 1895 in Jaisalmer (present day [[India]]). His ancestral roots linked to Rajput Clans of Rajisthan from where his father immigrated and settled in Karachi after the Sindh was amalgamated in British empire since 1843. He completed his intermediate from Sindh Madressah-tul-Islam, Karachi in 1911. Later, he went to Maharashtar to study engineering in Pune. Later he shifted to Bombay where he joined the project to uplift the lower [[caste]] in [[Bombay]] but after it was unsuccessful, he resigned along with a number of others from the project. ==Political life== After he retired from the project, he returned to Karachi and worked as an engineer at the then District Local Board, Karachi. However, he later resigned from the job due to differences on policy matter with G. M. Syed, who was then the president of the Board. Later, he joined politics and was elected a member of the Bombay Legislative Council from the constituency of Sindh in the 1934 election. Meanwhile he remained active in politics through the platform of the Sindh Ittehad party. He was also elected Mayor of the Municipality of Karachi for the term from May 1941 to May 1942. Afterwards, he joined Jinnah's All India Muslim League; that was launching a movement for establishment of an independent state for Muslim population of India within the sub-continen