Feroz Khan Noon
7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1893–1970) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Malik Feroz Khan Noon[lower-alpha 1] (7 May 1893 – 9 December 1970)[1] KCSI KCIE OStJ, best known as Feroze Khan, was a Pakistani politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Pakistan from 16 December 1957, until being removed when the President Iskandar Ali Mirza imposed martial law, though he himself got ousted in the 1958 Pakistani military coup.
Malik Feroz Khan Noon | |
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فیروز خاں نون فیروز خان نون ফিরোজ খান নূন | |
7th Prime Minister of Pakistan | |
In office 16 December 1957 – 7 October 1958 | |
President | Iskander Mirza |
Preceded by | Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar |
Succeeded by | Ayub Khan (as president) Nurul Amin (1971) |
Minister of Defence | |
In office 16 December 1957 – 7 October 1958 | |
Preceded by | Mumtaz Daultana |
Succeeded by | Muhammad Ayub Khuhro |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 12 September 1956 – 7 October 1958 | |
Prime Minister | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy |
Preceded by | Hamidul Huq Choudhury |
Succeeded by | Manzur Qadir |
Chief Minister of Punjab | |
In office 3 April 1953 – 21 May 1955 | |
Governor | Mian Aminuddin Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani |
Preceded by | Mumtaz Daultana |
Succeeded by | Abdul Hamid Khan Dasti |
Governor of East Bengal | |
In office 31 March 1950 – 31 March 1953 | |
Chief Minister | Nurul Amin |
Preceded by | Frederick Chalmers Bourne |
Succeeded by | Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman |
Personal details | |
Born | (1893-05-07)7 May 1893 Hamoka, Punjab, British India (now in Punjab, Pakistan) |
Died | 9 December 1970(1970-12-09) (aged 77) Nurpur Noon, Punjab, Pakistan |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse | Viqar un Nisa Noon |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Trained as a barrister in England, Noon served as High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom before serving as a military adviser, over issues pertaining to the British Indian Army, to Prime Minister Winston Churchill's war ministry from the India Office.[1]
Noon was one of the Founding Fathers of Pakistan who helped to negotiate and establish the Federation of Pakistan as a nation-state on 14 August 1947, resulting from the successful constitutional movement led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah.