Feroz Khan Noon
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Malik Feroz Khan Noon;Prime Minister |
Sir Malik Feroz Khan Noon (1893-1970) was a
politician from
Pakistan. He was educated at
Oxford University and belonged to one of the most influential landowning families of the
Punjab. He held many posts in government both before and after the independence and was an important figure in the
Pakistan movement.
He was the High Commissioner of India to the
United Kingdom from
1936 to
1941, and in
1947 he was sent as Quaid-i-Azam
Muhammad Ali Jinnah's special envoy to some countries of the
Muslim world. This one-man delegation was the first official mission sent abroad by the Pakistani government. The aim of the mission was to introduce Pakistan, to explain the reasons of its creation, to familiarize the Muslim countries with its internal problems and to get moral and financial support from these countries. Noon performed the role assigned to him in a successful manner.
Noon was then Chief Minister of the
Punjab province from
1953 to
1956, after which he became Foreign Minister of
Pakistan until
1957.
On
December 16,
1957 he was elected as the seventh
Prime Minister of Pakistan. He held this post until
October 7,
1958, when
martial law was enforced for the first time in Pakistan's history by General
Iskander Mirza.
Apart from politics, Noon also proved his capabilities in the field of academics. He wrote five books, including his autobiography,
From Memory. His wife, Viqar-un-Nisa Noon, though not originally from Pakistan, spent her entire life working for the betterment of the people of Pakistan and proved to be a great social worker.
Noon died on
December 9,
1970 in his ancestral village of
Nurpur Noon, near
Sargodha.
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Noon and Border Dispute TIME MAGAZINE*
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