# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iskander-mirza
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:24.699Z

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name: "Iskander Mirza"
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description: "Pakistan's first president, who declared martial law to save his own rule — then got overthrown three weeks later by the general he'd just empowered. The architect of his own exile."
tagline: "Pakistani politician, statesman and military general (1899–1969)"
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birthDate: "1899-11-13"
deathDate: "1969-11-13"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Iskander Ali Mirza moved from Sandhurst to the British Indian Army, then spent years as a political agent in the Western region before reaching Joint Secretary at India's Defence Ministry in 1946. After Partition, he became Pakistan's first Defence Secretary under Liaquat Ali Khan, overseeing the 1947 war with India and crushing Balochistan's secession attempt in 1948. He governed East Bengal in 1954 to contain unrest from the language movement, then climbed to Interior Minister before displacing Malik Ghulam Muhammad as governor-general in 1955. When Pakistan's first constitution arrived in 1956, he became president — and promptly fired four prime ministers in two years through unconstitutional meddling. Facing a reelection he couldn't win, Mirza suspended the constitution on 8 October 1958 and imposed martial law through Army Commander Ayub Khan. Twenty-one days later, Ayub sent him into permanent exile. He died in London and was buried in Iran in 1969, remembered by many Pakistani historians as the man who broke democracy before it could stand.