Khawaja Nazimuddin
Prime Minister of Pakistan
Died when: 70 years 95 days (843 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin (Urdu pronunciation: [xəʋəd͡ʒə nəzɪmud̪ːn];Bengali pronunciation: [kʰawadʒa nazimuɖːi̯n]; 19 July 1894 – 22 October 1964), KCIE was a Pakistani barrister, politician and statesman and among the founding fathers of Pakistan.
He served as the 2nd Governor-General of Pakistan from 1948 to 1951 and as 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1951 to 1953.Born to an aristocratic nawab family in Dacca in 1894, he was educated at Aligarh Muslim University and the University of Cambridge.
He joined the All-India Muslim League and supported the cause for a separate Muslim homeland, rising to become the party's principal Bengali leader and a close associate of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
He served as Prime Minister of Bengal in British India from 1943 to 1945, and later as the 1st Chief Minister of East Bengal in independent Pakistan.
Nazimuddin ascended to Governor-General in 1948 after the death of Jinnah, before becoming Prime Minister in 1951 following the assassination of his predecessor, Liaquat Ali Khan.
His term was marked by constant power struggles with his own successor as Governor-General, Ghulam Muhammad, as law and order deteriorated amid the rise of the Bengali language movement and protests in his native Dhaka in 1952, and religious riots in Lahore a year later.
The latter crisis saw the first instance of martial law, limited to the city, and led to Ghulam Muhammad dismissing Nazimuddin on 17 April 1953.
Nazimuddin's ministry was the first federal government to be dismissed in Pakistan's history, though his former ministers Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, Abdul Sattar Pirzada, and Mahmud Husain refused to take oath in the new cabinet.
He retired from national politics, passing away after a brief illness in 1964.He is buried at the Mausoleum of Three Leaders in Dhaka.
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