The Nawab Who Left Everything Behind

Summary

• Today marks seventy-five years since the afternoon of 16 October 1951, when a bullet in Rawalpindi’s Company Bagh silenced Nawab Zada Liaqat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• Liaqat Ali Khan was born in 1895 into one of the most respected landed families of Karnal.
• Whatever our politics, let us lift our hands and pray for Shaheed-e-Millat Liaqat Ali Khan and for his remarkable wife.

AI Generated Summary

Today marks seventy-five years since the afternoon of 16 October 1951, when a bullet in Rawalpindi’s Company Bagh silenced Nawab Zada Liaqat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan. I confess, with some shame, that I did not remember it. It was a telephone call from my Abba that reminded me, and the reminder carried a gentle rebuke. A nation that forgets the date of its first great grief has begun to forget itself. What did we lose that day? To answer, we must first understand who he was.