Chaudhry Shahabuddin was born into a Muslim Jat family of the Virk tribe^[1] hailing from Sialkot District in what was then Punjab, British India.^[2]

He was educated at Government College University in Lahore. In 1912 he was elected to Lahore Municipal Committee. He became a member of the Punjab Legislative Council in 1923, and was elected President for three consecutive terms between 1925 and 1936.^[3] He was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours list of 1930.^[4] In 1936 the Council was replaced by the Punjab Legislative Assembly, and Virk served as the Speaker of the Assembly between April 1937 and March 1945.^[5] He died in Lahore in 1946.

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