Liaquat Ali Khan

Liaquat Ali Khan}}}} (1 October 189516 October 1951) was a Pakistani lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Pakistan from 1947 until his assassination in 1951. He was as pivotal to the consolidation of Pakistan as the Quaid-i-Azam, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was central to the creation of Pakistan. He was one of the leading figures of the Pakistan Movement and is revered as Quaid-e-Millat ("Leader of the nation") and later on as "Shaheed e Millat" (Martyr of the nation). Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, the second son of Nawab Rustam Ali Khan (Ruken-ud-Daulah, Shamsher Jang, Nawab Bahadur), was one of the few landlords whose landed property was spread in the two provinces of India: Punjab and UP. Yet in his quest for serving Pakistan, he donated his entire property and wealth for the cause of Pakistan.

Khan was born in Karnal, East Punjab into the Nawab family of the United Provinces and Punjab. He himself owned 300 villages, 60 in the Punjab and 240 in Muzaffarnagar, UP. Khan was educated at the Aligarh Muslim University and University of Oxford. After first being invited to the Indian National Congress, he later opted to join the All-India Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, an Indian independence activist who later advocated for a separate Muslim nation-state out of Hindu-majority India. Khan assisted Jinnah in the campaign for what would become known as the Pakistan Movement and was known as his 'right hand'. He was a democratic political theorist who promoted parliamentarism in British India.

Khan's premiership oversaw the beginning of the Cold War, in which Khan's foreign policy sided with the United States-led Western Bloc over the Soviet Union-led Eastern Bloc. He promulgated the Objectives Resolution, in 1949, which stipulated Pakistan to be an Islamic democracy. He also held cabinet portfolio as the first foreign minister, defence minister, and frontier regions minister from 1947 until his assassination in 1951. Prior to the part, Khan briefly tenured as Finance minister of British India in the Interim Government that undertook independence of Pakistan and India, led by Louis Mountbatten, the then-Viceroy of India.

In March 1951, he survived an attempted coup by left-wing political opponents and segments of the Pakistani military. While delivering a speech in the Company Bagh of Rawalpindi, Khan was shot dead by an Afghan militant Said Akbar for unknown reasons. Khan was posthumously given the title ''Shaheed-e-Milat'' ('Martyr of the Nation') and is honored as one of Pakistan's greatest prime ministers. Provided by Wikipedia