[2][3] Mir Khalil ur Rahman was born on 19 July 1921 in Gujranwala, Punjab, the son of Mir Aziz ur Rahman, a businessman, and his wife, a schoolteacher, both immigrants from a Kashmiri business family which migrated from Kashmir Valley to Punjab, due to the economic situation.
[2] By 1940, then having become a college student, he started and founded a newspaper and magazine publishing company for the Muslims of British India during World War II in Delhi.
Pakistan's first Governor General and founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was delighted by this move and offered the government's help in running it.
[1] Mir Khalil ur Rahman died on 25 January 1992 in London, United Kingdom at the age of 70.
Some time before his death, Rahman was diagnosed with lung cancer, and was flown to the city of London for medical treatment.
On the evening of 25 January, shortly after his seemingly successful surgery, Rahman unexpectedly suffered a cardiac arrest while on the ventilator.