Khawaja Nazimuddin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Khawaja Nazimuddin

Prime Minister of Pakistan

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1894

Place of Birth: Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Date of Death: 22-Oct-1964

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: Pakistan

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Khawaja Nazimuddin

  • Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin (Urdu: ????? ?????? ???????; Bengali: ???? ???????????; 19 July 1894 – 22 October 1964), KCIE, CIE, was a Bengali politician, conservative figure, and one of the leading founding fathers of Pakistan.
  • He is noted as being the first Bengali leader of Pakistan who led the country as Prime Minister (1951–53), as well as the second Governor-General (1948–51).Born into an aristocrat Nawab family in Bengal in 1894, he was educated at the Aligarh Muslim University before pursuing his education at the Cambridge University to secure his graduation.
  • Upon returning, he started his political career on a Muslim League platform where he primary focused on education causes in Bengal before leading the cause for separate Muslim homeland, Pakistan, under the leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
  • From 1943 to 1945, he served as the prime minister of Bengal, later becoming the chief minister in 1947 until 1948, when he ascended as governor-general after Jinnah's death. In 1951, he took over the control of the government as prime minister of Pakistan upon the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, and relinquished the post of Governor-General to Sir Malik Ghulam.
  • As prime minister, he struggled to run the government effectively on the internal and foreign fronts, and thus he tenured for only two years.
  • On the home front, he struggled to maintain law and order in the country and instructed the military to impose martial law in Lahore due to religious riots and stagnation.
  • He also faced a populist language movement in his native Bengal that eventually led to the shutdown of Government of East Pakistan.
  • Foreign relations with the United States, Soviet Union, Afghanistan, and India soured as republicanism and socialism gained popularity at home. Eventually, he was forced to step down in favor of diplomat Mohammad Ali Bogra by his own appointed Governor-General Sir Malik Ghulam and conceded defeat in elections held in 1954.
  • Upon retiring from national politics, he suffered a brief illness and died in 1964.
  • He was buried at a Mausoleum in Dhaka.

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