Mohammad Ali Bogra, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mohammad Ali Bogra

Pakistani diplomat

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1909

Place of Birth: Barisal, Barisal Division, Bangladesh

Date of Death: 23-Jan-1963

Profession: politician, diplomat

Nationality: Pakistan

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Mohammad Ali Bogra

  • Sahibzada Mohammad Ali Bogra (Urdu: ???? ??? ??????, Bengali: ???????? ??? ??????); (19 October 1909 – 23 January 1963), also sometimes known as Mohammad Ali of Bogra, was a Pakistani 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 favor 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 as a result of Indian partition in 1947, he joined the Foreign ministry as a career diplomat and briefly tenured as Pakistan's ambassador to Burma (1948), Canada (1949–52), and twice served in the United States. After recalled in 1953 from his services to Pakistan from the United States, he replaced Nazimuddin as Prime Minister in a appointment approved by then-Governor-General 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 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 Pakistan 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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