Pakistani politician, statesman and military general (1899–1969)
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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.
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 1…
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My cardinal error was that, I trusted persons whom I knew, and helped, for twenty years; I regarded them as reliable and trustworthy friends.
Democracy without education is hypocrisy without limitation.
However, it must be plainly stated that while we are anxious to maintain friendly relations with India we must and shall defend our territory.
The elections were a peculiar type of elections which I have not understood from that day to this.
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