Muhammad Ali Bogra
Pakistani diplomat
Died when: 53 years 96 days (639 months)Star Sign: Libra
Sahibzada Syed Mohammad Ali Chowdhury (Bengali: সৈয়দ মোহাম্মদ আলী চৌধুরী;
Urdu: سید محمد علی چوہدری), more commonly known as Mohammad Ali Bogra (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ আলী বগুড়া;
Urdu: محمد علی بوگڑا); (19 October 1909 – 23 January 1963), or as Mohammad Ali of Bogra, was a Pakistani Bengali politician, statesman, and a career diplomat who served as third prime minister of Pakistan, appointed in this capacity in 1953 until he stepped down in 1955 in favour of Finance Minister Muhammad Ali.
After his education at the Presidency College at the University of Calcutta, he started his political career on Muslim League's platform and joined the Bengal's provincial cabinet of then-Prime Minister H.
S.Suhrawardy in the 1940s.After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, he joined the foreign ministry as a diplomat and briefly tenured as Pakistan's ambassador to Burma (1948), High Commissioner to Canada (1949–1952), twice as ambassador to the United States, and as ambassador to Japan (1959–1962).
After he was recalled in 1953 from his services to Pakistan from the United States, he replaced Sir Khwaja Nazimuddin as Prime Minister in an appointment approved by then-Governor-General Sir Malik Ghulam.
His foreign policy strongly pursued the strengthening of bilateral relations between Pakistan and the United States, while downplaying relations with the Soviet Union.
He also pushed for a stronger military to achieve peace with India and took personal initiatives to prioritize relations with China.
At home front, he successfully proposed the popular political formula that laid the foundation of the constitution in 1956 which made Pakistan a federal parliamentary republic.
Despite his popular initiatives, he lost his support to then-acting Governor-General Iskander Mirza who re-appointed him as Pakistani Ambassador to the United States which he served until 1959.
In 1962, he joined President Ayub Khan's administration as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan until his death in 1963.
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