Amir Habibullah Khan Saadi Rai Amir Habibullah Khan Saadi ( Urdu : رائے امیر حبیب الله خان سعدی ) ( born 1909 - died 1989 ) was a Manj Rajput ruler of Talwan in Jalandhar District , Punjab , British India and a military officer who became a freedom fighter in British India and a political leader in Pakistan . He is known in the pre - 1947 era for struggling against British rule in India and in favour of the Pakistan Movement and , in the post - 1947 era for the restoration of democracy in Pakistan under various autocratic rulers . Amir ( pronounced " Ameer " ) Habibullah Khan Saadi was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of West Pakistan ( Fifth Assembly ) ( June 9 , 1962 to June 8 , 1965 ) . He was one of the prominent leaders of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy ( MRD ) in 1970s against the government of Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and stood as candidate of the Pakistan National Alliance ( PNA ) against Mian Salahuddin of the Pakistan Peoples Party in the 1977 General Elections for a seat in the National Assembly of Pakistan from Lahore but was defeated in what were widely alleged to be rigged elections . Habibullah Khan Saadi was a member of the Khaksar Tehreek , an anti - colonial social uplift movement , and an associate of its leader , Allama Mashriqi . Early life . Amir Habibullah Khan Saadi was born " Rai Amir Habibullah Khan " on 21 December 1909 in a Manj Rajput family in Haryana , Hoshiarpur District , Punjab , British Indian Empire . He was named after Habibullah Khan , the then Amir of Afghanistan . His father , Rai Saadullah Khan , was a wealthy lawyer , landowner and ruler of Talwan , Jalandhar District , Punjab , where the family had its ancestral fort known as " Qila Talwan " ( " Fort Talwan " ) . Rai Saadullah Khan was also the first Muslim member of Punjab ' s Legislative Assembly , a feat he had achieved by inflicting an electoral defeat on another Muslim Rajput landlord , Chaudhry Abdur Rehman . Habibullah Saadi received his early schooling in Jalandhar . He later joined Islamia College , Lahore , contrary to the wishes of his father who wanted him to join his alma mater , Forman Christian College , Lahore . After completing his bachelors degree , Habibullah Saadi joined India ' s premier agriculture education establishment , the Punjab Agricultural College and Research Institute , Faisalabad ( now University of Agriculture , Faisalabad ) from where he was awarded an external degree of Master of Science in agriculture by the University of California , which had an arrangement with the Institute . In his youth , he suffixed the name " Saadi " with his name ( derived from his father ' s name , Saadullah ) , thus becoming " Amir Habibullah Khan Saadi " . After the dissolution of the Mughal Empire , the Manj Rais of Talwan and Talwandi and Raikot ruled over an extensive territory south of the River Sutlej , till they were dispossessed of it by the Ahluwalia Sikhs and Ranjit Singh . Military career . As was the case with many scions of landed Rajput families , who considered the military as a noble and honourable calling , Habibullah Khan , opted for a military career . Habibullah Khan received his military training at The Infantry School , Mhow , the oldest and largest military training centre of the British Indian Army , and was commissioned in 1938 as a Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Royal Horse ( " Lancers " ) , an elite cavalry unit of the British Indian Army . He served in Hyderabad Deccan , Ahmednagar , Ambala and Rawalpindi . During the Second World War , he fought with his unit on the Allied side against the Axis powers in Egypt , Cyprus and Mesopotamia ( modern - day Iraq ) . While serving in Cyprus during WWII , he beat and tied up a British Army Officer for abusing and mistreating Indian soldiers serving under British command . The British officer in question , a Captain , used to refer to Indian soldiers as " Bloody Indians " . Since the British Indian Empire was at war and prosecuting Habibullah Khan would have resulted in possible mutiny by Indian soldiers , who respected him highly , no action was taken against him and , in fact , probably for keeping the Indian soldiers loyal , he was commended for doing what he did . Later , in another instance , whilst serving in Mesopotamia , he chastised Indian soldiers for tolerating the substandard food that was being served to them , which was overheard by one Non - Commissioned Officer , a Subedar , who reported his comments to the British command . Seeking to avoid provoking the Indian soldiers , the British command did not take action against him . At the end of the Second World War , after he returned to Rawalpindi , his critical attitude towards the British was taken notice of and he was asked to resign from the British Indian Army , which he refused to do and asked to be court - martialed if he was guilty of an offence . He was , therefore , court - martialled in 1946 on charges of " seditious behaviour " , but not before giving a speech before the Field General Court Martial and telling them " if the Crown cannot respect the soldiers serving under its command , then the days of the British Empire are over . " Political career . Amir Habibullah Khan Saadi was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of West Pakistan ( Fifth Assembly ) ( June 9 , 1962 to June 8 , 1965 ) elected from a constituency of Faisalabad . He was one of the prominent leaders of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy ( MRD ) in the 1970s against the government of Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and stood as candidate of the Pakistan National Alliance ( PNA ) against Mian Salahuddin of the Pakistan Peoples Party in the 1977 General Elections for a seat in the National Assembly of Pakistan from Lahore but was defeated in what was widely alleged to be rigged elections . Habibullah Khan Saadi was a member of the Khaksar Tehreek , a social uplift movement . Amir Habibullah Khan Saadi was arrested on 5 November 1963 for actively opposing the military government of President Ayub Khan and the excesses of the Governor of West Pakistan , Malik Amir Mohammad Khan , Nawab of Kalabagh . The following is an excerpt from the West Pakistan Assembly Debates regarding the incident : Being one of the prominent leaders of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy ( MRD ) in the 1970s against the government of Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto , Amir Habibullah Khan Saadi was also arrested and detained by the government of Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto . Family . Amir Habibullah Khan was married to Begum Akhtar Sultan and had two sons and four daughters . His wife was his cousin and daughter of Khan Bahadur Rana Talia Muhammad Khan , a former British Indian Army officer and the first Muslim Inspector - General of Police in British India , who served as Inspector - General of Patiala State and the Northwest Frontier Province in British India . Her brother , Lieutenant General Bakhtiar Rana , was Chief Martial Law Administrator ( West Pakistan ) and Commander , I Corps , Pakistan Army ( 1958 – 1966 ) . His eldest daughter is married to the younger son of Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan . Death . Amir Habibullah Khan died on 6 March 1989 in Lahore , Pakistan , and is buried in his family ' s ancestral graveyard in his farm outside Kamalia , Pakistan . Written on his tombstone is the following verse in Urdu : Translation :