Miraj Khalid

Malik Miraj (Meraj) Khalid ( Urdu ملک معراج خالد; * September 20, 1916 in Dera Chahal near Lahore , Punjab (Pakistan) ; † June 13, 2003 in Lahore) was a Pakistani politician .

biography

Khalid, who had worked as a lawyer since 1948 after studying law at the Islamic College of Lahore, began his political engagement in the left-wing movement for Afro- Asian Solidarity (Movement of Afro-Asian Solidarity) and took on as its representative and general secretary of the Pakistani delegation participated in a solidarity conference of African, American and Asian countries in 1966 in Havana . In 1965 he was elected Member of the Parliament of West Pakistan.

One year after it was founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto , he joined the Pakistani People's Party (PPP) in 1968 and became its chairman in Lahore. In 1970 he was elected for the first time as a member of the National Assembly. In December 1971 he was appointed Minister for Food, Agriculture and Underdeveloped Areas in President Bhutto's cabinet. Between November 1972 and 1973 he was not only chief minister of the Punjab province , but also responsible for parliamentary affairs on the PPP board. In 1975 Bhutto finally appointed him Minister for Social Welfare, Local Administration and Rural Development. In 1977 he was spokesman for the National Assembly for some time. After the execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the PPP and held this office until 1988.

At the time of the first government of Bhutto's daughter, Benazir Bhutto , he was again speaker of the National Assembly from 1988 to 1990 and thus also at the time of its dismissal by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1990. In 1993 he failed in the nomination for the candidate list of the PPP for the October 1993 elections that led to the second government under Prime Minister Bhutto. However, he was subsequently appointed rector of the International Islamic University in Islamabad . In this position he increasingly withdrew from active politics, but on the other hand he became a critic of the Bhutto government in 1996.

After President Faruk Ahmad Khan Leghari dismissed Prime Minister Bhutto on November 5, 1996 on charges of corruption and mismanagement, Khalid was appointed Prime Minister of a caretaker government that same night . After the dissolution of parliament, he promised free and fair elections in February 1997.

On February 17, 1997, Nawaz Sharif succeeded him as Prime Minister.

Web links

• rulers.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Benazir Bhutto	Prime Minister of Pakistan 1996–1997	Nawaz Sharif