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Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin [a] KCIE (19 July 1894 – 22 October 1964) was a Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the second governor-general of Pakistan from 1948 to 1951, and later as the second prime minister of Pakistan from 1951 to 1953.
The Basic Principles Committee (BPC) was a specialized committee set up in March 1949 by Khawaja Nazimuddin on the advice of prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan.The committee's sole purpose was to determine the basic underlying principles that would determine future constitutions and legislature in Pakistan.
He was assassinated in 1951, and Khawaja Nazimuddin took the office. [5] [20] 1st — 2 Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin. خواجہ ناظم الدین (1894–1964) 17 October 1951 17 April 1953 1 year, 182 days – Muslim League: Nazimuddin became Prime Minister of Pakistan after the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan in 1951. [20]
Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894–1964) 14 September 1948 17 October 1951 3 years, 33 days 3 Sir Ghulam Muhammad (1895–1956) 17 October 1951 7 August 1955
Governor-General Ghulam Mohammad dismissed Pakistani Prime Minister Khawaja Nazimuddin's government in 1953 despite the Prime Minister enjoying the support of the Constituent Assembly and, subsequently, dismissed Pakistan's first constituent assembly in 1954, [1] steps later described as Pakistan's constitutional coup given that Ghulam Mohammad was the representative of the head of state and ...
The governor-general, Jinnah died in 1948 and was replaced by Khawaja Nazimuddin who ruled till the governments end in 1951. The government would dissolve in 1951, when Liaquat Ali Khan would be assassinated under mysterious circumstances. Governor-general Khawaja Nazimuddin would then take office as second prime minister of Pakistan and would ...
"On the advice of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, His Majesty the King is pleased to appoint Khwaja Nazimuddin as acting governor-general of Pakistan in the vacancy occasioned by the sad demise of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah." In 1951, Sir Khwaja Nazimuddin resigned from the post of governor-general to become the new prime minister.
April 17 – Governor General Ghulam Muhammad sacked Prime Minister Khawaja Nazimuddin, although he enjoyed the confidence of the parliament, and appointed Mohammad Ali Bogra to form a government on April 17. Martial law was imposed in Lahore to control the sectarian riots against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.