Amat-ul-Hamid Khanum [Begum Abad Ahmad]

Amat-ul-Hamid Khanum, daughter of Dr. Faiz Muhammad Khan, was born in October 1903 in Nabha, East Punjab, and was educated at home. From the days of the Khilafat Movement, she began to take interest in politics, especially in the welfare of women. In 1925, she compiled a book entitled the Guldasta-i-Kashida, a useful book of girls interested in tailoring and embroidery. In 1927, in response to the suggestion of Maulvi Sayyid Mumtaz Ali, she founded an anjuman of Muslim women, known as Anjuman-i-Tahzib-i-Niswan, and a library in Faizabad (Awadh), and in 1930, she founded a similar anjuman and a LIBRARY in Pillibheet.

In October 1933, she was married to Sahibzada Abad Ahmad khan who was then an officer in the police department.

Although she had started taking interest in the affairs of the Muslim League in early thirties, she came in closer contact with this organization in 1937 when she lived in Dera Dun. In 1940, she was elected President of the Dera Dun branch of the Women's sub-committee of the Muslim League and in 1945, when she left Dera Dun for Aligarh, she devoted her utmost attention to the League activities. At one time the Begum was offered the presidentship of the women's sub-committee, but she declined the offer and preferred to work for it as an ordinary worker. During 1946 elections, she supported the League candidates.

In October 1947, Begum Abad Ahmad came to Lahore along with her husband and immediately undertook the refugee rehabilitation and relief work for the refugee from India and Kashmir.