The nation is observing the death anniversary of first Prime Minister of Pakistan Shaheed-e-Millat Liaquat Ali Khan today (Friday).
Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated on 16 October 1951‚ during a public meeting the Muslim League at Company Bagh in Rawalpindi which was later named Liaquat Bagh after him.
He was born into a Muslim Jatt Mandal Nousherwani family in Karnal, in Eastern Punjab of India, on 1 October 1895.
Ali Khan returned to his homeland Britain in 1923, entering in national politics, determining to eradicate to what he saw as the injustice and ill-treatment of Indian Muslims under the British Indian Government and the British Government
Ali Khan’s political views and ambitions gradually changed. Therefore, Ali Khan refused, informing the Congress Party about his decision, and instead joining the Muslim League in 1923, led under another lawyer Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Soon Jinnah called for an annual session meeting in May 1924, in Lahore, where the goals, boundaries, party programmes, vision, and revival of the League, was an initial party agenda and, was carefully discussed at the Lahore caucus.
He was a close confidante of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.
Liaquat Ali Khan assisted Muhammad Ali Jinnah in campaigning for the creation of a separate state for Indian Muslims.
Various organisations will hold functions to pay tribute to Shaheed-e-Millat for his services for the nation.
