Khawaja Nazimuddin

Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin ( Urdu خواجه ناظم الدین; Bengali: খাজা নাজিমুদ্দীন, Khaja Nājimuddīn; born July 9, 1894 in Dhaka, † October 22, 1964 in Dhaka ) was a Pakistani politician, Governor General and Prime Minister. He was a member of the Order of the British Empire and was raised in 1934 by the British King George V to the peerage of Sir.

Life

Born in Dhaka in Bengal he came from a family of Nawabs. He attended Dunstable Grammar School in England, then Aligarh Muslim University and later - until the mid- 30s - the Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

After his return to British India, he devoted himself a politics of his native Bengal, was first education minister and then increased - before the independence of Pakistan - Chief Minister of the Province on. He also took over the leadership of the Muslim League in Eastern India.

After the establishment of the Muslim state of Pakistan, he played an important role in the early governments. After the early death of the country's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah Nazimuddin became his successor as Governor General of Pakistan. After the assassination of the first Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan in 1951, he became his successor.

Under his rule, the contrasts between the two largest populations of Panjaber and the Bengal within the Muslim League were getting bigger, and on February 21, 1952 demanding the Bengali representatives on a demonstration equal status for the Bengali language. This demonstration was brutally suppressed by the police, which many human lives. During his reign, a new constitution was drafted, which should allow Pakistan to end its dominion status in the British Commonwealth and to be Republic. While there has been progress, but Nazimuddins term ended prematurely, and the work remained unfinished.

In 1953 a Muslim religious movement for the removal of the religious minority of Ahmadis from positions of power to agitate and asked to explain this minority to " non-Muslims ". Nazimuddin stood contrary to what riots in the Punjab had the effect of which were directed against both the government and the followers of this religious minority. Nazimuddin responded with the replacement of the provincial governor by Feroz Khan Noon, but the decision came too late. Governor General Ghulam Muhammad asked him to resign, but Nazimuddin refused what Ghulam Muhammad led to depose him taking advantage of a constitutional provision. The matter went to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the legality of the dismissal did not touch in his judgment, but forced new elections. New Premier was born Bengali Muhammad Ali Bogra.

Khawaja Nazimuddin still enjoys great honor in Pakistan and Bangladesh. In Karachi, Nazimabad and North Nazimabad to the suburbs and in Dhaka, a street named after him.