Feroz Khan Noon
Firoz Khan Noon (Hindi:फिरोज खान नून) (1893–1970) Malik Sir Feroz Khan Noon was a politician from Pakistan. He was from Noon Muslim Jat Gotra.
Early life
He was born on 07 May 1893 at village Hamoka, tehsil Khushab, Punjab.[1] He hailed from an elite aristocratic and landowning family that were known for their wealth and had reputation in social circles.[2][3]
Education
After his initial schooling, Noon attended Aitchison College in Lahore before being sent to England in 1912.[4] The India Office arranged for him to stay with the family of Reverend Lloyd in Ticknall, South Derbyshire. From there he applied to study at Oxford University, initially being rejected by Balliol College and then accepted by Wadham College. Noon stayed with Lloyd's family until 1913, and had a close relationship with them until going to Oxford. [5]
He held many posts in Government both before and after the independence and was an important figure in the Pakistan Movement.
Noon was appointed Chief Minister of the Punjab province from 1953 to 1956 by Khwaja Nazimuddin, following the dismissal of his predecessor, Mian Mumtaz Daultana, in the wake of the Lahore riots of 1953. He then became Foreign Minister of Pakistan until 1957.
Prime minister
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 Iskander Mirza.
Apart from politics, Noon wrote five books, including his autobiography, From Memory. His wife, Begum Viqar un Nisa Noon, was a prominent social worker. Though not originally from Pakistan, she spent her entire life working for the betterment of the people of Pakistan.
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References
- ↑ Open University. "Making Britain :Firoz Khan Noon
- ↑ Mandal, U. C. (1997). Bureaucracy Growth And Devel. New Delhi, India: Sarup & Sons. p. 96. ISBN 9788185431840.
- ↑ Kamra, Sukeshi (2002). Bearing Witness: Partition, Independence, End of the Raj. University of Calgary Press. p. 393. ISBN 9781552380413.
- ↑ Churchill, Winston; Gilbert, Martin (1993). The Churchill War Papers: The ever-widening war, 1941. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 1094. ISBN 9780393019599.
- ↑ Open University. "Making Britain :Firoz Khan Noon
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