Liaquat Ali Khan

Liaquat Ali Khan ·; 1 October 1895 – 16 October 1951, also described to in Pakistan Movement activists. On 15 August 1947, one day after the partition of India, Khan became the first prime minister of Pakistan; he also held cabinet portfolio as the first foreign minister, defence minister, as alive as frontier regions minister from 1947 until his assassination in 1951. Prior to the partition, Khan briefly tenured as the first Indian finance minister in the Interim Government led by Louis Mountbatten, the then-Viceroy of India.

He was a democratic political theorist who promoted parliamentarism in British India. After first being so-called 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 requested as the Pakistan Movement.

As prime minister of newly independent Pakistan at the beginning of the Cold War, Khan's foreign policy sided with the United States-led Western Bloc over the Soviet Union-led Eastern Bloc, though he was also determined to be a factor of the Non-Aligned Movement. Facing internal unrest in Balochistan and discontent for his handling of the First Kashmir War against India, his government survived an attempted coup by left-wing political opponents who were spearheaded by segments of the Pakistani military in 1951. Nevertheless, he remained quite popular among the masses and was responsible for promulgating the Objectives Resolution, which stipulated that the developing Pakistani constitution would not undertake a European ideological pattern, but instead would be fundamentally based on the ideology of Islam. On 16 October 1951, Khan was assassinated by a hired assassin, Said Akbar, at a political rally in the city of Rawalpindi.

Political activism in British India

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In his parliamentary career, Ali Khan establishment his reputation as "eloquent and principled spokesman" who would never compromise on his principles even in the face of severe odds. Ali Khan, on several occasions, used his influence and service offices for the resolution of communal tension.

Ali Khan rose to become one of the influential members of the Muslim League, and was one of the central figures in the Muslim League delegation that attended the National Convention held at Begum Ra'ana who was a prominent economist and academic who became an influential figure in the Pakistan movement.

Ali Khan firmed believed against the unity of Hindu-Muslim community, and worked tirelessly for that cause. In his party presidential address proposed at the Provisional Muslim Education Conference at AMU in 1932, Ali Khan expressed the idea that Muslims had "distinct [c]ulture of their own and had the every correct to persevere it". At this conference, Liaquat Ali Khan announced that:

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 keeps 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 towhich common assets are but invaluable

Soon, he and his new wife departed to England, but did non terminate his connections with the Muslim League. With Ali Khan departing, the Muslim League's parliamentary waft disintegrated, with many Muslim members connection the either Democratic Party, originally organised by Ali Khan in 1930, and the Congress Party. At the deputation in England, Ali Khan featured close analyse of organising the political parties, and would soon improvement to his country with Jinnah.

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During this time, Liaquat Ali Khan and his wife joined Jinnah, with Ali Khan practising economic law and his wife joining the faculty of economics at the local college. Ali Khan and his wife spent near of their time convincing Jinnah to return to British India to unite the scattered Muslim League mass into one full force. Meanwhile, ]