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Liaquat Ali Khan [a] (1 October 1895 – 16 October 1951) was a Pakistani lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Pakistan from 1947 until his assassination in 1951.
The Liaquat Ali Khan government, commonly abbreviated as the L.A Khan government or Ali Khan administration was the first government and cabinet of Pakistan [a] which ruled from 1947 to 1951, and was led by Liaquat Ali Khan. The government was founded on 15 August 1947, almost immediately after the Partition of India and Pakistan's independence.
Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated later in 1951, in October, in an unrelated [citation needed] attack by an Afghan national in Rawalpindi. Gen. Ayub Khan launched the first successful military coup against the government of President Iskander Mirza in 1958, assuming the reins of the presidency himself until 1969.
The state visit of Liaquat Ali Khan to the United States, from 3 to 5 May 1950, was the official visit of Pakistan's first Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, to Washington, D.C.. He was accompanied by the First Lady of Pakistan, Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan. Prime minister Ali Khan shakes hands with President Harry Truman, upon his arrival.
Top left: Liaquat Ali Khan was the first prime minister of Pakistan since its inception. Top center: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was the first prime minister to have been democratically elected as he was in 1977. Top right: Benazir Bhutto was Pakistan's first and only female prime minister.
The Muslim League was the original successor of the All-India Muslim League that led the Pakistan Movement to achieve an independent nation. Five of the country's Prime Ministers have been affiliated with this party, namely Liaquat Ali Khan, Khwaja Nazimuddin, Mohammad Ali Bogra, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, and Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar.
In 1947, the founding fathers of Pakistan agreed to appoint Liaquat Ali Khan as the country's first prime minister, with Muhammad Ali Jinnah as both first governor-general and speaker of the State Parliament. [58] Mountbatten had offered to serve as Governor-general of both India and Pakistan but Jinnah refused this offer. [59]
16 October – Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan is assassinated at Company Bagh (now renamed Liaquat National Bagh) in Rawalpindi, Punjab. [10] 17 October – Governor-General Khawaja Nazimuddin becomes the second prime minister of Pakistan making him the first Bengali prime minister.