Background
Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas was born in the middle class Gujjar family of Chaudhry Nawab Khan on February 4, 1904 at Jammu.
Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas was born in the middle class Gujjar family of Chaudhry Nawab Khan on February 4, 1904 at Jammu.
He graduated from the Prince of Whales College Jammu. He passed his Bachelor of Laws from Law College Lahore and started his career as a lawyer in Jammu.
After his migration to Azad Jammu and Kashmir he became the pioneer supreme head of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government. He was offered a post of Sub-Judge but he refused to serve the Dogra raj. Its president was Sheikh Abdullah while Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas was elected as its secretary general.
Later the organization was renamed as National Conference.
But when Sheikh Abdullah developed his association with Nehru and the Congress, Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas withdrew hands from the National Conference. Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas enthusiastically campaigned for the affiliation of the people of Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan.
He reached Pakistan after the transfer of prisoners in 1948 after the ceasefire and served the Azad Kashmir government till 1951. He presented the case of Pakistan in the United Nations along with Sardar Ibrahim when India asked United Nations Organization to resolve the issue, which ended up with the cease-fire line.
In 1951 he resigned from the headship of Azad Kashmir government and set aside from politics.
He died of stomach cancer on December 18, 1967 and was buried at Faizabad, Rawalpindi as he willed to be buried in Pakistan.
