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Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi

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Inayatullah Mashriqi or Inayatullah Khan al-Mashriqi also sometimes called Allama Mashriqi (1888-1963) was the founder of the Khaksar movement in British Raj. He was also a Pakistani mathematician and a political leader.[1][2]

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  1. According to a contemporary witness and historical source, 'Allama Mashriqi was [a]half-crazed megalomaniac, who founded the Khaksars, a sort of Muslim private army, in imitation of Hitler's Brownshirts', from Punjab Prelude by LF Loveday-Prior, 1956
  2. Syed Shabbir Hussain 'Al-Mashriqi, the disowned genius', Lahore, 1991