Allah Bux Soomro

Later, he got admission in higher secondary school in Shikarpur in 1911,[5] and passed his matriculation examinations in 1918 and joined his father's contract business.

Soon after taking over as Chief Minister of Sindh, Soomro overruled the banishment of Ubaidullah Sindhi, thereby allowing him to return to his homeland.

The Muslims denounced it as un-Islamic, agitated violently, and forced Allah Bux Soomro to ban it in 1938.

[citation needed] Manzilgah was the name of a couple of old buildings near the Sadh Belo temple in Sukkur which were used as a government godown.

[8] When Allah Bux became Premier, he sent a commission which reported that Manzilgah was an inn, based upon the original Persian inscriptions on the building.

[10] Senior League leaders G. M. Syed, M. A. Khuhro and Sir Abdullah Haroon forcibly occupied Manzilgah from 3 October 1939, to 19 November 1939.

Leaders of the Muslim League later admitted "that the Manzilgah issue was a bogus (hathradoo) agitation, staged just to topple Allah Bux.

"[13] On 27 April 1940, over 1400 delegates participated in Delhi session of the All India Azad Muslim Conference, which Allah Bakhsh Soomro presided over.

[1] The Canadian orientalist Wilfred Cantwell Smith remarked that those presented represented the ‘majority of India’s Muslims’.

[8] Following the dismissal of his government, Soomro appointed member of the National Defence Council in which he served till 1942, when the Quit India Movement was started.

[8] Allah Bux Soomro was briefly elected back to power in March 1941 and served as Premier for about a year.

His nephew, Elahi Bux Soomro, was the speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan and a Veteran Politician.