Liaquat Ali Khan

Liaquat Ali Khan , 1895-1951, first prime minister of Pakistan. He was educated at Aligarh Muslim Univ. and at Oxford and was admitted to the English bar in 1922. A year later he joined the Muslim League. He served (1926-40) in the United Provs. legislative council, and while there he became (1936) general secretary of the Muslim League; thereafter he was chief lieutenant to Muhammad Ali Jinnah . He represented the Muslim League in the Central Legislative Assembly of India from 1940 to 1946, when he was appointed to the interim Indian government organized by the British to prepare the way for India's independence. With the creation of Pakistan (Aug., 1947) he became prime minister of the new dominion. He was assassinated in 1951.

Liaqat Ali Khan, Nawabzada (1895–1951) First Prime Minister of Pakistan (1947–51). He began his political career in British India as a Muslim leader in the United Provinces, and from 1933 became JINNAH's right-hand man in the MUSLIM LEAGUE. In 1946 he became Finance Minister in the Interim Government. Between the death of Jinnah in 1948 and his own assassination in 1951 he was the most powerful politician in Pakistan, when he endeavoured to achieve a reconciliation with India via the Delhi Pact (1950).

Liaquat Ali Khan (b. 1 Oct. 1895, d. 16 Oct. 1951). Prime Minister of Pakistan 1947–51 Born in Karnal (Punjab), he studied at Aligarh, Allahabad, and Oxford, and was admitted to the English Bar in 1922. He returned, and became active in politics almost immediately. He joined the Muslim League and became a member of the Legislative Council of the United Provinces (1926–40). Especially during his time as secretary of the All-India Muslim League (1936–47), and then as chairperson of the Muslim League Central Parliamentary Board from 1945, he was Jinnah's right-hand man. Appointed Finance Minister in Nehru's interim government, he became Prime Minister upon Pakistan's independence in 1947. After Jinnah's death in 1948, he was the dominant figure in the first years of the country. He managed only with difficulty to keep abreast of the factional rivalries within the country's various Muslim groups. In foreign policy, he made peace with India, but found it hard to gain credence for his claim that Pakistan was a nation of equal weight in international affairs. By 1951, he began to lose favour (and control) even among his own supporters. He was assassinated while addressing a public rally in Rawalpindi.