Presentation on Liquat Ali khan. biography, Personal life, political career, major works, Assassination.

1. LIAQUAT ALI KHAN(1895-1951)
Presentation by Usama Riaz

2. LIAQUAT ALI
KHAN
(1895-1951)
First Prime Minister of Pakistan

3. EARLY LIFE:
• On Oct. 1, 1895, Liaquat Ali Khan was born at Karnal in Punjab, India.
His family were wealthy landowners who later moved to the United
Provinces. He was educated at Aligarh and Oxford University. He
received scholarships and grants from the British Government which
enabled him to attend the Oxford University's Exeter College in
England for his higher education. In 1921, Khan was awarded the
Master of Law in Law and Justice. He was called to the Bar in 1922.

4. PERSONAL LIFE:
• Liaquat Ali Khan married his cousin, Jehangira Begum, in 1918. He
married for the second time in 1932. His second wife, Begum Ra'ana,
was a prominent economist and an educator who played an influential
role in the Pakistan movement. He had three sons from these
marriages.

5. POLITICAL CAREER:
• Liaquat Ali Khan returned to India in 1923 and soon entered national
politics. He was approached by the Congress party but he refused to join
them and instead joined the All India Muslim League in 1923. The Muslim
League was led by another lawyer Muhammad Ali Jinnah with whom Khan
went on to foster a close political relationship in future.
• In 1926, he began his political career as an elected member of the United
Provinces Legislative Council from the rural Muslim constituency of
Muzzafarnagar. In 1932, he was unanimously elected Deputy President of
UP Legislative Council.
• Liaquat Ali Khan worked closely with Jinnah over the following years. In
1928, the two men decided to discuss the Nehru Report and in 1930, they
attended the First Round Table Conference.

6. CONTINUE….
• Jinnah returned to British India after a few years and began re-organizing the Muslim League. In
1936, Jinnah moved a resolution proposing Khan as the Honorary General Secretary which was
accepted. In 1940, Khan was made the deputy leader of the Muslim League Parliamentary party.
• Khan’s stature continued to grow in the ensuing years. Following the 1945–46 elections, the Muslim
League won 87% of seats reserved for Muslims of British India and Khan was elected Chairman of
the League's Central Parliamentary Board.
• The partition of India took place in 1947 and Pakistan as a separate nation came into existence on
14 August 1947. Liaquat Ali Khan was appointed as the first Prime Minister of Pakistan by the
founding fathers of Pakistan.

7. MA JOR WORKS:
• Upon becoming the prime minister, Khan implemented initiatives to
develop educational infrastructure, science and technology in the country.
He appointed Salimuzzaman Siddiqui as his first government science
adviser and asked Ziauddin Ahmed to draft the educational policy for
establishing a strong educational system in Pakistan. During his tenure, the
establishment of the Sindh University was also authorized.
• As the leader of a newly created nation, Khan wanted to develop friendly
relations with powerful countries like the U.S. He visited the U.S. and asked
for civilian foreign aid for economic and moral support to build Pakistan to
which the U.S. agreed. Pakistan received U.S. aid for several years before
the relations between the two nations soured.

8. ASSASSINATION:
• During a public meeting of the Muslim City League at Company Bagh
(Company Gardens), Rawalpindi, on 16 October 1951, Khan was shot
twice in the chest by a hired assassin. The assassin was immediately
killed by the police but the exact motive behind the assassination has
never been fully revealed.
• He was given the honorific title of "Shaheed-e-Millat", or "Martyr of the
Nation" upon his death.