Malik Meraj Khalid

Malik Miraj ( Meraj ) Khalid ( Urdu ملک معراج خالد; born September 20, 1916 in Dera Chahal near Lahore, Punjab (Pakistan ), † 13 June 2003, Lahore ) was a Pakistani politician.

Biography

Khalid, who worked as a lawyer since 1948, after studying law at the Islamic College of Lahore, his political involvement began in the left-wing movement for Afro-Asian Solidarity ( Movement of Afro-Asian Solidarity ) and took as its Representative and Secretary General of Pakistan delegation at the solidarity Conference of African, American and Asian countries in 1966 in Havana. In 1965 he was elected Member of Parliament from West Pakistan.

A year after it was founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, he joined in 1968 the Pakistan People's Party (PPP ) and became its chairman in Lahore. Followed in 1970 his first election as a deputy of the National Assembly. In December 1971, he was appointed by President Bhutto Minister for Food, Agriculture and underdeveloped areas in the Cabinet. Between November 1972 and 1973 he was not only Chief Minister of Punjab province, but also in charge of the board of PPP for Parliamentary Affairs. Finally, in 1975, Bhutto appointed him as Minister of Social Welfare, Local Administration and Rural Development. In 1977 he was speaker of the National Assembly ( National Assembly) for some time. After the execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979 he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the PPP and held this office until 1988.

Currently, the first government of Bhutto's daughter, Benazir Bhutto, he was from 1988 to 1990 he was again Speaker of the National Assembly and thus at the time of their dismissal by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1990. 1993 he failed in the nomination of the candidate list of PPP for the elections in October 1993, which led to the second government of Prime Minister Bhuttp. He was then appointed principal, however, the International Islamic University Islamabad. In this position, he withdrew increasingly from active politics, but on the other hand was in 1996 to a critic of the government Bhutto.

After President Faruk Ahmad Khan Leghari dismissed Prime Minister Bhutto on 5 November 1996 on charges of corruption and mismanagement, Khalid was appointed by this still the same night as Prime Minister of the transitional government ( Caretaker Government). After the dissolution of Parliament, he promised free and fair elections in February 1997.

On February 17, 1997, he was followed by Nawaz Sharif as prime minister.