Liaquat Ali Khan

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Liaquat Ali Khan

Liaquat Ali Khan ( Urdu لیاقت علی خان; * October 2, 1896 in Karnal , British India ; † October 16, 1951 in Rawalpindi , Pakistan ) was a Pakistani politician and the first Prime Minister of independent Pakistan .

Life

Liaquat was born the son of a nawab in British India. He was a graduate of Aligarh Muslim University and Exeter College of Oxford University . After returning from England, he joined the Muslim League in 1923 . From 1926 to 1940 he was a member of the Legislative Council of the United Provinces. In April 1933 he married the later professor of economics and women's rights activist Begum Ra'ana . With her he traveled to England to persuade Muhammad Ali Jinnah to return to India. From 1936 he was honorary secretary and from 1943 general secretary of the Muslim League. In 1946 he became finance minister of the transitional government.

After independence in 1947, Jinnah made Liaquat Pakistan's first prime minister. In 1949, the Objectives Resolution he presented was passed, which is considered to be the forerunner of the Pakistani constitution of 1956. In 1950 he signed the Liaquat Nehru Pact with Jawaharlal Nehru for the protection of religious minorities. In 1951 he appointed Muhammed Ayub Khan as commander in chief of the army . An officer's conspiracy to overthrow his government was uncovered in time in 1951. Liaquat's visit to the United States in May 1951 was seen as groundbreaking for the course of Pakistani foreign policy.

On October 16, he was shot by an assassin from the audience during a speech in Rawalpindi and died shortly afterwards in hospital. The motive for the act is unknown, the murderer was killed on the scene. Liaquat was posthumously awarded the title "Martyr of the Nation" ( Shahid-i-Millat ).

The assassin Syed Akbar was a former intelligence agent for both British and Pakistani agencies. He also had connections to the radical Islamic Jamaat-i-Islami. Liaquat's assassination increased authoritarian and bureaucratic elements within the Pakistani political spectrum.

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  1. ↑ Begum Raana Liaquat Ali Khan , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 45/1966 of October 31, 1966, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ VY Belokrenitsky, VN Moskalenko: A Political History of Pakistan 1947 - 2007 , Oxford, 2013
predecessor Office successor
- Prime Minister of Pakistan
1947–1951 		Khawaja Nazimuddin
personal data
SURNAME Liaquat Ali Khan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani politician, first Prime Minister of Pakistan
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Karnal
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1951
Place of death Rawalpindi