... conduct its affairs in a civilized manner. As a result of the strong stand taken by the Sardar and just when it seemed that action was about to be taken, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, rushed to Delhi. Arriving in the first week of April 1950, he concluded what came to be known as the Nehru-Liaquat Pact, under which equality of citizenship to Hindus and Muslims alike in both... contingencies the indefinite perpetuation of the existence of Pakistan and the indefinite postponement of the prospect of any unification of India. I regard the fact as an exceedingly clever move of Liaquat Ali to fish his "nation" out of the desperate situation into which it had run itself and to secure its safe survival. I will not go elaborately into the reasons for my view and I am quite prepared for... different direction. The founding father, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, was Pakistan's first governor-general. He was terminally ill at the time of Pakistan's independence, and died within a year. His deputy, Liaquat Ali Khan, the first prime minister, was assassinated three years later. Both believed that Pakistan needed a strong centre to survive as a nation state. This policy resulted in a Page 83 ...
... retaliatory attacks in India, and the consequent flight of Hindus from East Pakistan into West Bengal, Assam and Tripura, and Muslims from India into Pakistan. On 2 April 1950, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan came to India to discuss these problems with Prime Minister Nehru. Six days later the two men signed a pact addressing the refugee problem and guaranteeing the rights of religious ...
... wings of Pakistan, East and West, were separated by some 1000 miles of Indian Territory as well as by differences of language and political tradition. After the assassination of Jinnah's successor Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan's civil institutions, still very new, struggled to provide continuity of government and ultimately were bypassed and distorted, with the military coming in to clean things up. This ...
... in certain contingencies the indefinite perpetuation of the existence of Pakistan and disappearance of the prospect of any unification of India. I regard the Pact as an exceedingly clever move of Liaquat Ali to fish his "nation" out of the desperate situation into which it had run itself and to secure its safe survival. I will not go elaborately into the reasons for my view and I am quite prepared for ...
... × See Addendum × This may refer to the death of Liaquat Ali, and the grave economic and political difficulties resulting in the dissolution of the Pakistani Parliament in October 1958, and General Ayub Khan's seizure of power. ...
... famous 'silk route' connected Kashmir and Afghanistan, this little known incident started the recent violent connection between these two places. Shocked by this rebuke to the father of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister, convened a secret meeting (unknown to the British officers in the Pakistan administration including General Messervy, the Commander-in-Chief of Pakistan Army) to discuss ...
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