1. Mr. C. E. Gibbon,
2. Diwan Bahadur S.P. Singha,
3. The Hon'bie Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan,
4. Mr. Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta,
5. Chaudhuri Nazir Ahmad Khan,
6. His Excelleney Khwaja Shahabuddin, and
7. Babu Phani Bhushan Barua.
APPOINTMENTS TO CASUAL VACANCIES
Later on the Honorable Khan Sardar Bahadur Khan and Qazi Muhammad Isa were appointed by the President under Rule 70 of the Constituent Assembly Rules of Procedure vice Mr. Ghazanfar Ali Khan and Mr. Bhim Sen Sachar, who resigned their seats in the Assembly and ceased to be members of the Committee under Rule 71-A. (2). In November 1949, Mr. Rallia Ram was appointed by the president in the vacancy caused by the death of Dewan Bahadur S.P. Singha.
The Honorable Khwaja Nazimuddin and Captain Syed Abid Hussain were appointed in the vacancies caused by the demise of Khan Liaquat Ali Khan and Sheikh Karamat Ali.
The Honorable Dr. A.M. Malik and Mr. Yahiya Bakhtiar were appointed vice His Excellency Khwaja Shahabuddin and Qazi Muhammad Isa, who resigned their membership of the Committee.
VICE CHAIRMAN
The Committee had elected the late Quaid-e-Millat Khan Liaquat Ali Khan as Vice-Chairman of the Committee but after his death it was not considered necessary to elect any other person as Vice Chairman.
PROCEDURE AND WORK OF THE COMMITTEE
The Sub-Committees:— The Committee at its first meeting held on the 26th May, 1948, appointed the following two Sub-Committees to deal separately with matters which their names indicate:
(1) Sub-Committee on Fundamental Rights of citizen of Pakistan; and
(2) Sub-Committee on matters relating to Minorities.
Sub-Committee on Fundamental Rights.-In respect of matters dealt with by the former Sub-Committee the Committee presented its Interim Report on Fundamental Rights of Citizens of Pakistan to the Constituent Assembly which was adopted the same of the 6th October, 1950.
This Report is the final report of the Committee and deals with additional fundamental rights and with the safeguards for minorities.
