Ghaznavi started his political career by joining the congress party in 1942 and participated in
Quit India Movement. He actively participated in the
Indian independence movement. Ghaznavi was elected the president of
Punjab Provincial Congress Committee in 1946. He was jailed for 3 years for participating in a campaign against the British and was released in 1924. Ghaznavi was one of the co-founders of the
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind and
Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam. In 1946, being the politician of
Indian national congress, he participated in
assembly elections and became a member of the
Punjab Provincial Assembly. Due to indifferences with
Congress party, he joined the
Muslim League on 2nd August 1946. After
Independence of Pakistan, as a member of Muslim League, he participated in
1951 Punjab provincial election and became a member of the
Provincial Assembly of the Punjab. The
Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith Maghribi Pakistan was founded in a historic meeting on 24 July 1948 at the Darul Uloom Taqwiyatul Islam in
Lahore by a number of
Salafi Islamic scholars, including
Ibrahim Mir,
Abdullah Ropari,
Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti, Dawood Ghaznavi and others. Ghaznavi was elected as the first
emir of the Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith. He served
emir from 1948 until his death in 1963. Ghaznavi died on 16 December 1963, and was buried in the
Miani Sahib Graveyard in
Lahore, Pakistan. == Works ==