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Liaquat Ali Khan (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. He played a key role in consolidating the state of Pakistan, much as Muhammad Ali Jinnah did in founding it. A leading figure in the Pakistan Movement, he is revered as Quaid-e-Millat ("Leader of the Nation") and Shaheed-e-Millat ("Martyr of the Nation").

Khan was born in Karnal, Haryana, to a wealthy Rajput family. His grandfather, Nawab Ahmad Ali, provided significant support to the British during the Mutiny uprising of 1857–1858, earning him substantial rewards in the form of prestigious honours and complete remission of rent. Khan was educated at the Aligarh Muslim University and the University of Oxford. After first being invited to the Indian National Congress, he later opted to join the All-India Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, an Indian independence activist who later advocated for a separate Muslim nation-state out of Hindu-majority India. Khan assisted Jinnah in the campaign for what would become known as the Pakistan Movement and was known as his 'right hand'. He was a democratic political theorist who promoted parliamentarism in British India.

Khan's premiership oversaw the beginning of the Cold War, in which Khan's foreign policy sided with the United States-led Western Bloc over the Soviet Union-led Eastern Bloc. He promulgated the Objectives Resolution in 1949, which stipulated Pakistan to be an Islamic democracy. He also held cabinet portfolio as the first foreign minister, defence minister, and frontier regions minister from 1947 until his assassination in 1951.……

Early life and education

Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan was born on 1 October 1895 into a wealthy family belonging to the Mandal clan, in the Karnal, Punjab Province with roots in Talera Village of Jansath Tehsil in Muzaffarnagar District of present day-Uttar Pradesh.……

Political activism in British India

Khan returned to India in 1923, entering in national politics, determined to eradicate what he viewed as the injustice and ill-treatment of Indian Muslims under the British Indian Department and by the British government.……

United Province legislation

Khan was elected to the provisional legislative council in the 1926 elections from the rural Muslim constituency of Muzaffarnagar.……

Prime Minister of Pakistan (1947–1951)

After independence, Khan was appointed the first Prime Minister of Pakistan by the founding fathers of Pakistan.The country was born during the initial beginning of the extensive competition between the two world superpowers, the United States and Soviet Union.……

Assassination and funeral

On 16 October 1951, Khan was shot twice in the chest while he was addressing a gathering of 100,000 at Company Bagh (Company Gardens), Rawalpindi. The police immediately shot the presumed murderer who was later identified as professional assassin Said Akbar.……

Legacy

Khan is Pakistan's longest serving Prime Minister spending 1,524 days in power. His legacy was built up as a man who was the "martyr for democracy" in the newly founded country. Many in Pakistan saw him as a man who sacrificed his life to preserve the parliamentary system of government.……

Eponyms

Liaquat National Library, Pakistan's largest library and open-source library, named after him.

Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, medical university established in the memory of Liaquat Ali Khan.

Liaquat National Hospital, government hospital named after Liaquat Ali Khan.

Assessment of foreign policy

Others argue that Khan had wanted Pakistan to remain neutral in the Cold War, as declared three days after Pakistan's independence when he declared that Pakistan would take no sides in the conflict of ideologies between the nations. Former serviceman Shahid M.……