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{{Short description|Pakistani proletarian leader (1928-1960)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}}
{{Use Pakistani English|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Hassan Nasir
| native_name = حسن ناصر
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1928|01|01}}
| birth_place = [[Hyderabad]], [[G/13/1 Street:87 House;56]], [[British Raj]]<br/>(now in [[Telangana]], [[India]])
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1960|11|13|1928|01|01}}
| death_place = [[Lahore]], [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], Pakistan
| nickname = Hasan Bhai
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| occupation = Proletariat Leader
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'''Hassan Nasir''' (1 January 1928 – 13 November 1960)<ref name=friday>{{cite news|last=Saeed|first=Shahid|title=Hasan Nasir, 1928-1960|url=http://www.thefridaytimes.com/04022011/page27.shtml|accessdate=26 September 2013|newspaper=The Friday Times|date=10 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928062555/http://www.thefridaytimes.com/04022011/page27.shtml|archive-date=28 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> was a [[Pakistani]] [[proletarian]] leader, Secretary General of the proscribed [[Communist Party of Pakistan]] (CPP) and Office Secretary in the [[National Awami Party]]. Hasan Nasir was born in [[Hyderabad (Deccan)]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1217943|title=Hassan Nasir: The man who wasn't there|last=Paracha|first=Nadeem F.|date=2015-11-08|access-date=2016-08-24}}</ref> and had fought, along with [[Makhdoom Mohiuddin]] and others, in the [[Telangana armed struggle|Telangana Peasants’ Revolt]] against the Razakars.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

== Early life ==
Nasir was a maternal grandson of Nawab [[Mohsin-ul-Mulk]], one of the founders of the [[All-India Muslim League]]. After completing college, he was admitted into the [[University of Cambridge]] in [[England]] where he came into contact with various [[Marxist]] ideologues and soon became inspired by the rhetoric he heard. Upon his return to India, he joined forces with the oppressed [[Hindu]] peasants of Telangana and took part in anti-colonial uprisings to the chagrin of his bourgeoisie family.<ref name=":0" /> In the aftermath of the [[Partition of India]] and the [[Operation Polo|Liberation of Hyderabad]] from the rule of the [[Nizam of Hyderabad|Nizam]] by [[Indian armed forces|Indian forces]], the communist movement in [[Telangana]] collapsed and a temporary military administration was instituted in the region which subdued the collectivized communes established by the peasant rebels. The [[Indian Army]] soon pursued the remaining communist guerrilla factions in the countryside, which prompted Nasir to migrate to [[Pakistan]] in 1947. Upon arrival in [[Karachi]] in 1950, he resumed his political activities and soon became one of the most dreaded communists in the new nation to the ruling elite of right-wing [[Islamists]]. Thus, despite being the scion of an aristocratic family in Hyderabad (Deccan), he had taken up the cause of the oppressed.<ref name="friday" /> He was a popular left-wing activist among students, peasants, and laborers. In 1954, he was arrested by the government, imprisoned, tortured and then forcibly flown back to [[India]]. But only a year later, he escaped Indian custody and returned again to Pakistan. Nasir's reconnection with Indian communists further radicalized his ideology and hardened him as a person, and he began serving as the office secretary of the [[National Awami Party|National Awami Party (NAP)]] after his arrival back to Karachi.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1217943|title=Hassan Nasir: The man who wasn't there|last=Nadeem F. Paracha|date=8 November 2015|website=dawn.com|access-date=29 May 2017}}</ref>

== Death ==
In 1960, he was arrested in Karachi and put in a cell in the [[Lahore Fort]] and brutally tortured till he died.<ref name="friday2">{{cite news|url=http://www.thefridaytimes.com/04022011/page27.shtml|title=Hasan Nasir, 1928-1960|last=Saeed|first=Shahid|date=10 February 2011|accessdate=26 September 2013|newspaper=The Friday Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928062555/http://www.thefridaytimes.com/04022011/page27.shtml|archive-date=28 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> He died while under interrogation in Lahore Fort,<ref name="links">{{cite web | url=http://links.org.au/node/278 | title=Pakistan: Social and economic crisis -- background and perspectives | work=Links | accessdate=25 September 2013 | author=Tariq, Farooq}}</ref> a detention centre established by the Martial-Law regime of Ayub Khan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Throttled Scream of Hasan Nasir – I |url=https://www.thefridaytimes.com/throttled-scream-of-hasan-nasir-i/ |work=The Friday Times - Naya Daur |date=3 December 2020}}</ref> After his murder his mangled body was hastily buried by the police. The reports of torture were frightening and succeeded in halting the protests for several months. There was such a fervor over his martyrdom that the President [[Ayub Khan (Field Marshal)|Ayub Khan]] government had to exhume his body to attempt to prove to the prosecution point that he had committed suicide and was not tortured.<ref name="friday" /> The reason was that the government did not want to let remain anything reminding the people of Hassan Nasir.<ref name=democ>{{cite journal|last=Nadeem|first=Naresh|title=Pakistan Diary|journal=People's Democracy|date=13 March 2005|volume=29|issue=11|url=http://www.cpim.org/pd/2005/0313/03132005_naresh%20nadeem.htm|accessdate=26 September 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928010821/http://www.cpim.org/pd/2005/0313/03132005_naresh%20nadeem.htm|archivedate=28 September 2013}}</ref> Today, there remains nothing of that cell, where he was killed, except a wall containing a small window.<ref name="democ" />

Hassan Nasir was brought to Lahore Fort's cell on 13 September 1960. On 13 November, at 12:40 pm, the Assistant Deputy Inspector General of the Criminal Investigation Department received a call from the line officer at the Lahore Fort that Hassan Nasir was found hanging in cell number 13 at 11:00 am that morning.<ref name="dawn">{{cite web | url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1078940/a-century-of-war-1914-2014-pakistan-and-the-cold-war | title=A century of war, 1914-2014: Pakistan and the Cold War | publisher=Dawn | date=2014-01-07 | access-date=8 January 2014 | author=ASDAR ALI, KAMRAN}}</ref><ref name="links" />

On 4 December 1960, Hasan Nasir’s mother, Zahra Alamdar Hussein, arrived in [[Lahore]] from her home in [[Hyderabad]], [[India]].<ref name="dawn" /> She witnessed the exhumation of the body in the [[Miani Sahib Graveyard]] on 12 December 1960 for the possession. The body suffered an advanced stage of decomposition and thus not identifiable. Mrs. Hussein issued a statement at the court that she did not think the body was that of Hasan Nasir’s and refused to take the possession. The Anarkali Police later reburied the body into an unknown grave.<ref>{{cite web|last=Moini|first=Qasim A.|title=KARACHI: 'Bhagat Singh was a Pakistani martyr'|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/277535/karachi|work=Dawn|date=26 November 2007|access-date=26 September 2013}}</ref>

==References in literature and popular culture==
* [[Sibte Hassan]] in his book ''Sher-e-Nigaran'' briefly discussed Hasan Nasir
* Maj. Ishaq Muhammad in his book ''Hassan Nasir Ki Shahdat''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* Discussion show about Hassan Nasir on Pakistan Television: {{YouTube|Diyjny_WrMA|Part 1}}, {{YouTube|4j6j-Ur6Ou8|Part 2}}, {{YouTube|VWIrRrvrHzM|Part 3}}, {{YouTube|l8l1_dxxRL4|Part 4}}

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[[Category:1928 births]]
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[[Category:Communist Party of Pakistan politicians]]
[[Category:Deaths in police custody in Pakistan]]
[[Category:Pakistani torture victims]]
[[Category:People murdered in Lahore]]
[[Category:Pakistani people of Hyderabadi descent]]
[[Category:Indian emigrants to Pakistan]]

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