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Liaquat Ali Khan was a Pakistani lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Pakistan from 1947 until his assassination in 1951. He played a key role in consolidating the state of Pakistan, much as Muhammad Ali Jinnah did in founding it. A leading figure in the Pakistan Movement, he is revered as Quaid-e-Millat and Shaheed-e-Millat.
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politics · Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1947 to 1951 · politician · diplomat · lawyer · also Liaquat Ali Khan, Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan,, Quaid e Millat., Shaheed e Millat, Khan
Born 1 October 1895 · Died 16 October 1951 · Q295713
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But, days of rapid communalism, in this country (British India) are numbered.., and we shall ere witnessed long the united Hindu-Muslim India anxious to persevere and maintain all that rich and valuable heritage which the contact of two great cultures bequeathed us. We all believe in the great destiny of our common motherland to achieve which common assets are but invaluable.
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Pakistan (1947–1951).
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“But, days of rapid communalism, in this country (British India) are numbered.., and we shall ere witnessed long the united Hindu-Muslim India anxious to persevere and maintain all that rich and valuable heritage which the contact of two great cultures bequeathed us. We all believe in the great destiny of our common motherland to achieve which common assets are but invaluable.”
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BBC: Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan back in jail after hospital examination
The Guardian: Jailed ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan allowed brief hospital visit after uproar over health
saudigazette: Tribute to Pakistan’s first Premier Liaquat Ali Khan on 118th birth anniversary
Died 1951-10-16.
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Khan was assassinated by Sayyid Akbar Babrak, an Afghan national
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Khan had made clear that Pakistan's foreign policy was neutrality
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Khan established relations with China by sending his ambassador, making Pakistan to become first Muslim country to establish relations with China, a move which further dismayed the United States
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Which stipulated Pakistan to be an Islamic democracy
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After Jinnah's death, Prime Minister Khan intensified his vision to establish an Islamic-based system in the country, presenting the Objectives Resolution—a prelude to future constitutions, in the Constituent Assembly
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Which passed by the Constituent Assembly
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The Soviet Union's leader, Joseph Stalin, sent an invitation to Khan to visit the country, followed by a U
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As a new cabinet was also re-established
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Economic planning began to take place during his time in office, but soon collapsed partly because of unsystematic and inadequate staffing
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Pakistan established relations with the Soviet Union, and an agreement was announced a month later
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Pakistan (1947–1951).
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Career landmark: Federal Minister for Defence (1947–1951).
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Career landmark: Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (1947–1949).
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Career landmark: Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions (Pakistan) (1947–1951).
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Khan and his Finance minister Malik Ghulam Muhammad proposed the idea of Five-Year Plans, by putting the country's economic system on investment and capitalism grounds
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With Jinnah inviting physicist Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry to Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan called upon chemist Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, awarding him citizenship, and appointing him as his first government science adviser in 1950
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Career landmark: Minister of Finance (1946–1947).
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Khan was made the deputy leader of the Muslim League Parliamentary party
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At the Lahore session of the Muslim League
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The annual session of the League met in Bombay (now Mumbai)
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Was unanimously elected Deputy President of UP Legislative Council
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Khan expressed the view that Muslims had "distinct [c]ulture of their own and had the (every) right to persevere it"
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Khan married for a second time to Begum Ra'ana who was a prominent economist and academic who became an influential figure in the Pakistan movement
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Jinnah urged Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and his Viceroy Lord Irwin to convene a Round Table Conferences in London
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Jinnah, along with his sister Fatima and daughter Dina, decided to settle in London
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Khan and Jinnah attended the First Round Table Conference which ended in disaster, leading Jinnah to depart from British India to the UK
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Led under another lawyer Muhammad Ali Jinnah who called for an annual session meeting in May 1924 in Lahore where the goals, boundaries, party programs, vision, and revival of the League, was an initial party agenda and
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Entering in national politics, determined to eradicate what he viewed as the injustice and ill-treatment of Indian Muslims under the British Indian Department and by the British government
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Studied at Exeter College, Master of Laws (1919–1921).
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Khan was awarded the Master of Law in Law and Justice, by the college faculty who also conferred on him a Bronze Medallion
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Attended Oxford University's Exeter College to pursue his higher education
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Studied at Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College (1918).
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Khan attended the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (now Aligarh Muslim University), graduating with a BSc degree in Political science and LLB in 1918, and married his cousin, Jehangira Begum, also in 1918, however the c
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Born 1895-10-01.
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