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Pir altaf bhai is a party leader not leader or ruler of nation
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^ How dare you! In addition to being the best ruler, he is the best musician, cricketer, poet, and super model of the country!
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^^ Yar kuch tu sharam karaiN, kam uz kam Super model keh ker meray munh ka zaiqa tu kharab na karaiN...
Re: Best to Worst Leaders of Pakistan
My list
1) Jinnah
2) Liaqat Ali Khan
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103) Ayub Khan
104) Muhammad Khan Junejo
105) Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
106) Musharraf
107) Ziaulhaq
108) Benazir Bhutto
109) Nawaz Sharif
110) Yahya Khan
111) Asif Ali Zardari
based on their tenure after comming to power by hook or crook, apart from Jinnah and LA Khan, no one came to power without help of army or mislead sympathies!
My list would be:
1 - **Quaid-e-Azam
**2 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
3 - Liaquat Ali Khan
4 - Muhammad Khan Junejo
5 - Nawaz Sharif
6 - **Pervez Musharraf
**7 - Benazir Bhutto
8 - Muhammad Ayub Khan
9 - Zia ul-Haq
Re: Best to Worst Leaders of Pakistan
My list starts from bottom.
Extremely worst at the bottom.
and that is none other than
Altaf Husain
When it comes to a fair assessment, Jinnah shouldnt be included in the list because he died shortly after the creation of Pakistan, and most of his miraculous leadership charisma revolved around the Pakistan Movement, before the creation of Pakistan. The one year he was alive during Pakistan's existence, he was extremely sick and was trying to recover.
With that said, Jinnah did make some clear indications in his speeches that the military was to serve the civilians and under no conditions try to take over the country. That happened, in the form of Ayub, Zia and the worst of the lot Musharraf, and we shall continue to pay for not following heed to Jinnah's words of wisdom.
If we are to included dictators in the list, here goes for those that siginificantly ruled Pakistan.
1) Ayub Khan (for the golden ages)
2) Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (for the restoration of Pakistan's confidence and proving we can do something)
3) Nawaz Sharif (gets the edge over BB based on the strong economic package he came out with in his first term, but things got ugly in his 2nd stint)
4) Benazir (she really messed things up for herself in the 2nd term, or otherwise she could have done wonders)
5) Zia-ul-Haq/Junejo (though a total mistake for Pakistan, but ran the country well, brought normalcy with India, and kept the image of the armed forces intact)
6) Musharraf (only there because we need to have someone at the bottom fo the list)
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I dont understand you guys hatred for Musharraf
Didn't the economy grow under his rule?
Didn't he try to foster better relations with India?
Didn't he liberalize the Media and removed restrictions on it?
Didn't he deal swiftly and decisively against BLA terrorists?
Didn't he present Pakistan in a better light and appearing on talk shows such as Jon Stewart?
How many politicians and rivals did he have assassinated like Zia?
Could people during Zia's time or any other Military ruler's time burn his effigies, and shout death threats to them?
I know he made mistakes with that Chief Justice thing but even that was overblown....but the amount of hatred you guys are showing towards him...seems like he was Hitler
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- Jinnah (an example for all)
- Liaqat Ali Khan (wish he hadn't gone to Washington, but he did put Jewish lobby in its place with his remarks)
- Zulfiqar Bhutto (for speaking his mind, and acting on it. Outspoken in UN, defiance to West, vision to unite muslim countries into one bloc)
- Benazir Bhutto (defiance to a dictator and a force that united the federation, one national party that dominates all states)
- Nawaz Sharif (Some infrastructure work credited to him, survival through sanctions and pakistan going nuclear during his tenure.)
- Yousuf Raza Gilani (a peoples' person surrounded by hounds. lifting of illegal house arrests, restoration of SCJ)
- *******waiting*********
You seem to be stuck in 1999 or 2000...
I dont understand you guys hatred for Musharraf
Didn't the economy grow under his rule?
No, the so called boom was gone even before he resigned in shame, and it was neutralized by massive inflation and never trickled down to the poverty ridden and poor. By the time he resigned, we were in dire straits.
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Didn't he try to foster better relations with India?
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Are you kidding me, the mastermind behind Kargil brought us very close to war in 2002, bhool gaye?
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Didn't he liberalize the Media and removed restrictions on it?
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That process had already begun, and went on simaltaneously in many other countries. Yes, he was better in the beginning than both BB and NS with the media but he ruined it all by the way he handled them later. Pretty much every reputable name in the media hated him.
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Didn't he deal swiftly and decisively against BLA terrorists?
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Nope, the threat still exists. All he did was get Bugti killed and garnered more support for the Baluch liberation cause.
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Didn't he present Pakistan in a better light and appearing on talk shows such as Jon Stewart?
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He made an assclown out of himself.
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How many politicians and rivals did he have assassinated like Zia?
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Bugti comes to mind. He might not have assasinated people, but he unjustly victimized many. People were exiled, sold for dollars. Those who spoke against him and were not corrupt, they faced the most ridiculous charges, for instance Javed Hashmi, and even Gillani.
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Could people during Zia's time or any other Military ruler's time burn his effigies, and shout death threats to them?
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Way to go, so you are comparing him to Zia, which only asserst that you are trying to prove he was marginally better than him.
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I know he made mistakes with that Chief Justice thing but even that was overblown....but the amount of hatred you guys are showing towards him...seems like he was Hitler
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That was just 'one' tiny blot in his reign of terror.
Interestingly, you dont seem to have an aswer for all the blunders I mentioned previously, just quoted a few things, and even those werent very solid assertions.
relax guy, just cuz most see Musharraf a.k.a. dictator for what he really is, doesn't mean you have to get all upset. ;)
and what kind of dictatorial actions did he do that you otherwise could not have done under Nawaz Sharif or Benazir?
How was an ordinary Pakistani's freedom curbed under Musharraf as compared to BB or Nawaz Sharif?
I think Pakistanis had more freedom under Musharraf
Certainly the daily protests, free media.....
Which other dictator could you do this under?
Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, Mussolini, Mubarack?
Or even democratically elected leaders such as Chavez, Putin?
Musharraf did not act like a Dictator, he was a decent person who thought best for Pakistan...but he made some mistakes
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One person that I dont see in the list & no one talking about is the 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan
Hussain Shaheed Suharwardi
He was the first popular leader of Pakistan; Liaqat Ali Khan for all his services to Pakistan was not a leader of the masses, H.S Suharwardi was; his constituency was East-Pakistan..., but he was a staunch nationalist & believer in Pakistan who had played a key role in the Pakistan movement alongside Quaid-e-Azam, a man of impecible integrity had he not mysterously died in 1963 the respect he commanded in East Pakistan he could have made a difference in the situation.
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Indeed, can you shed some more light into the death of Suhrawardy. I dont recall text books talking much about it.
Here is the brief life history of 5th PM Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy. He was founder of Awami League of Shaikh Mujib and gave Pakistan’s first constitutiion in 1956, I think Bhutto’s 1973 consitution is revised format of this constitution.
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5th Prime Minister of Pakistan
In office 12 September 1956 – 17 October 1957
Born 8 September 1892
**Midnapore, West Bengal **
Died December 5, 1963 (aged 71)
**Beirut, Lebanon **
**Political party Muslim League **
**Religion Islam **
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (September 8, 1892 - December 5, 1963) was a politician from Bengal in undivided India, and later in East Pakistan, who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1956 until 1957. He is also known for his controversial role in the Direct Action Day of August 16, 1946. Following riots in Bengal during the last days of India’s freedom struggle, he was considered a favourite of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He is also considered to be the first populist leader in Pakistan’s history. He is the founder of the Awami League, one of the two major political parties of present day’s Bangladesh.
Early life
Suhrawardy was born on 8 September 1892 to a prominent Muslim family in the town of Midnapore, now in West Bengal. He was the younger son of Justice Sir Zahid Suhrawardy, a prominent judge of the Calcutta High Court. In conformity with the elite Muslim tradition of that era in India, most of his family members spanning the entire subcontinent adopted Urdu. But Suhrawardy learnt Bengali and identified himself with the politics and society of Bengal.
Education and marriage
Suhrawardy completed his undergraduate studies at St. Xavier’s College, and completed a masters degree at the University of Calcutta. Afterwards, he moved to the United Kingdom to attend St Catherine’s College Oxford University from where he obtained a BCL degree. On leaving Oxford, he was called to the bar at Gray’s Inn. He then started his practice at Calcutta High Court, where he had appointed Captain Advocate Fazlul Karim as his junior to handle his cases of the lower court.
In 1920, Suhrawardy married Begum Niaz Fatima, daughter of Sir Abdur Rahim, the then home minister of the Bengal Province of British India and later President of India’s Central Legislative Assembly.
Return to India
Suhrawardy returned to the subcontinent in 1921 as a practising barrister of the Calcutta High Court. He became involved in politics in Bengal. Initially, he joined the Swaraj Party, a group within the Indian National Congress, and became an ardent follower of Chittaranjan Das. He played a major role in signing the Bengal Pact in 1923.
Suhrawardy became the Deputy Mayor of the Calcutta Corporation at the age of 31 in 1924, and the Deputy Leader of the Swaraj Party in the Provincial Assembly. However, following the death of Chittaranjan Das in 1925, he began to disassociate himself with the Swaraj Party and eventually joined Muslim League. He served as Minister of Labour, and Minister of Civil Supplies under Khawaja Nazimuddin among other positions. In the Bengal Muslim League, Suhrawardy and Abul Hashim led a progressive line against the conservative stream led by Nazimuddin and Akram Khan.
In 1946, Suhrawardy established and headed a Muslim League government in Bengal. It was the only Muslim League government in India at that time.
Direct Action Day
Under Suhrawardy’s direction, the Bengal Government declared August 16, 1946 to be a public holiday to celebrate the Direct Action Day called by Jinnah to protest against the Cabinet Mission plan for the independence of India.
Suhrawardy’s government allegedly provided support to Muslim League mobs who attacked Hindus en masse to press their demand for Pakistan. The intensity of Direct Action Day was at its worst in the capital Calcutta. There was also a genocide of Bengali Hindus in the Noakhali district. Suhrawardy was widely blamed for either orchestrating or not taking steps to prevent the carnage and for trying to suppress the news of the same from the media. The physical and emotional scars of Direct Action Day linger among millions of Bengalis even today.
Independence
In 1947, the balance of power in Bengal shifted from the Muslim League to the Indian National Congress, and Suhrawardy stepped down from the Chief Ministership. Unlike other Muslim League stalwarts of India, he did not leave his hometown immediately for the newly established Pakistan. Anticipating revenge of Hindus against Muslims in Calcutta after the transfer of power, Suhrawardy sought help from Gandhi. Gandhi was persuaded to stay and pacify tempers in Calcutta, but he agreed to do so on the condition that Suhrawardy share the same roof with him so that they could appeal to Muslims and Hindus alike to live in peace. “Adversity makes strange bed-fellows,” Gandhi remarked in his prayer meeting.
Political life in East Pakistan
Upon the formation of Pakistan, Suhrawardy maintained his work in politics, continuing to focus on Bengal or East Pakistan as it became after independence from the British. In 1949 he formed the East Pakistan Awami Muslim League, which would develop into the Awami League.
In the 1950s, Suhrawardy worked to consolidate political parties in East Pakistan to balance the politics of West Pakistan.He, along with other leading Bengali leaders A.K. Fazlul Huq and Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, formed a political alliance in the name of Jukta Front which won a landslide victory in 1954 general election of East Pakistan.Under Muhammad Ali Bogra, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy would serve as Law Minister and later become the head of opposition parties.
Prime Minister of Pakistan
In 1956, he was made Prime Minister by President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza after the resignation of Chaudhry Muhammad Ali. Suhrawardy inherited a political schism that was forming in Pakistan between the Muslim League and newer parties, such as the Republican party. The schism was fed by the attempt to consolidate the four provinces of West Pakistan into one province, so as to balance the fact that East Pakistan existed as only one province. The plan was opposed in West Pakistan, and the cause was taken up by the Muslim League and religious parties. Suhrawardy supported the plan, but the vast opposition to it stalled its progress.
In order to divert attention from the controversy over the “One Unit” plan as it was called, Suhrawardy tried to ease economic differences between East and West Pakistan. However, despite his intentions, these initiatives only led to more political frictions, and was worsened when Suhrawardy tried to give more financial allocations to East Pakistan than West Pakistan from aids and grants. Such moves led to a threat of dismissal looming over Suhrawardy’s head, and he resigned in 1957.
His contribution in formulating 1956 constitution of Pakistan was substantial as he played a vital role in incorporating provisions for civil liberties and universal adult franchise in line with his adherence to parliamentary form of liberal democracy.
In the foreign policy arena, he is considered to be one of the pioneers of Pakistan’s pro-United States stand.
Political pragmatism
Suhrawardy was reputed for his political pragmatism. For instance, before partition, considering the overall backwardness of the Bengali Muslim community, he was a staunch supporter of separate electorates. Nevertheless, soon upon establishment of Pakistan, he opted for joint electorate upholding the view that this was essential for the growth of a common nationhood among peoples irrespective of caste, creed, and religion.
However, to his opponents, this pragmatism was viewed as sheer opportunism.
Post-political life and death
Tomb of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy at Dhaka.Disqualified from politics under the military regime of Ayub Khan, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy died in Lebanon in 1963. His death was officially due to complications from heart problems, though some have alleged he was poisoned. After a befitting funeral attended by a huge crowd, he was buried at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka.
External links
The Complete Politician,an article published in Time on Suhrawardy on September 24, 1956.
Suhrawardy in Banglapedia,the national encyclopedia of Bangladesh.
Suhrawardy Becomes Prime Minister
Chronicles Of Pakistan
See also
Category:Prime Ministers of Pakistan
List of Prime Ministers of Pakistan
Politics of Pakistan
References
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy: A Biography by Begum Shaista Ikramullah (Oxford University Press-1991)
Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
Gandhi’s Passion by Stanley Wolpert (Oxford University Press)
Another forgotten PM of Pakistan was Mohammad Ali Bogra. West Pakis never tolerated Bengalis to be their leaders. Here is the another brief of his life.
I think people like M2k did not know whether he was Once a PM of East and West which was real Pakistan at that time.
Muhammad Ali Bogra
Muhammad Ali Bogra (1909 - 1963) (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ আলী বগুড়া; Urdu: محمد علی بوگرہ) was a Pakistani statesman of Bengali origin, who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 until 1955.
Early life
Born at Bogra to a Sunni Muslim family descended from the Nawabs of Bengal, he attended the University of Calcutta and followed his education with a career in politics. In 1937 he began to receive prominence when he was elected to the assembly of Bengal. He would move up within the government of Bengal, serving under Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy as the Health Minister and later Finance Minister.
Upon the formation of Pakistan in 1947, Bogra was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan but after disagreement with Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Governor-General, over the issue of the Bengali Language, he was sent abroad as an Ambassador and served in Burma, Canada, and eventually as a two-time Ambassador to the United States.
Prime Minister
In 1953, he was selected by Governor General of Pakistan Ghulam Muhammad to replace Khawaja Nazimuddin as the Prime Minister. Bogra was a relatively unknown personality to the national political scene of that time. He was serving as Ambassador to the US when he was recalled to take the office of Prime Minister. As Prime Minister, he set out to form a constitution.
Indian PM Jawaharlal Nehru talks to PM Bogra in his 1953 visit to Karachi.In order to complete this, he outlined his famous “Bogra Formula” that sought to form a bicameral legislature. An Upper House would have contained 50 seats, 10 from each province, i.e. with 10 from East Pakistan and 40 from West Pakistan. A Lower House would have contained 300 seats. The lower house seats would be determined by population of province, and East Pakistan would have 165 seats, while the four provinces of West Pakistan would have a combined 135 seats, but would be split among the provinces. A provision was also put in place that stated that if the President of Pakistan were from West Pakistan, then the Prime Minister would have to be from East Pakistan, and vice-versa. The plan was very popular, but was killed when Ghulam Muhammad dissolved the Pakistani Assembly later in 1953.
Resignation and Death
Bogra was forced to resign in 1955 by the new Governor General, Iskander Mirza. He returned to his post as ambassador to the United States. In 1962 he became the foreign minister of Pakistan, until his death in 1963. He was buried buried in the family gravie of Nawab Palace in his hometown of Bogra in present day Bangladesh.
Here is another earlier PM of Pakistan, Khawaja Nazimuddin who was kicked out by corrupt b Ghulam Mohammad the then governor general of Pakistan.
Khawaja Nazimuddin
Hajji Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin, KCIE (Urdu: خواجہ ناظم الدین, Bengali: খাজা নাজিমুদ্দীন Khaja Nazimuddin) (July 19, 1894 - October 22, 1964) was the second Governor-General of Pakistan, and later the second Prime Minister of Pakistan as well.
Early life
He was born in Dacca, Bengal (now Dhaka, Bangladesh) into the family of the Nawabs of Dhaka.[citation needed]. He received his education from Dunstable Grammar School in England, then Aligarh Muslim University, and later Trinity Hall, Cambridge until the mid-1930s. He was knighted in 1934.
Politics
After returning to British India, he became involved in politics in his native Bengal. Nazimuddin was initially the Education Minister, but climbed the ranks to become the Chief Minister of the province prior to independence. Sir Khawaja also became the head of the Muslim League in Eastern India.
Governor-General of Pakistan
Upon the formation of Pakistan, he became an important part of the early government. After the early death of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Sir Khawaja succeeded him as the Governor-General of Pakistan. At this point in time, the position was largely ceremonial, and executive power rested with the Prime Minister. The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in 1951, and Sir Khawaja stepped in to replace him.
Prime Minister
During Sir Khawaja's time as Prime Minister, Pakistan saw a growing rift within the Muslim League, especially between Punjabi and Bengali groups, as those were the two largest ethnic groups of Pakistan, but were separated by India. On 21 February 1952, a demonstration in the Language movement demanding equal and official status to the Bengali language turned bloody, with many fatalities caused by police firings. During his time in office, a framework was begun for a constitution that would allow Pakistan to become a republic, and end its Dominion status. Progress was made, but Sir Khawaja's time as Prime Minister would be cut short in 1953.
In 1953, a religious movement began to agitate for the removal of the Ahmadi religious minority from power positions, and demanded a declaration of this minority as non-Muslims. Sir Khawaja resisted such pressures; but riots broke out in The Punjab against both the government and followers of this religious minority. He responded by changing the governor of that province to Feroz Khan Noon, but the decision came late.
Resignation
Ghulam Muhammad, the Governor-General, asked the Prime Minister to step down. Sir Khawaja refused, but Ghulam Muhammad got his way by invoking a reserve power that allowed him to dismiss the Prime Minister. The Chief Justice, Muhammad Munir, of the "Federal Court of Pakistan" (now named as the Supreme Court of Pakistan), did not rule on the legality of the dismissal, but instead forced new elections. The new prime-minister was another Bengali born statesman, Muhammad Ali Bogra.
The dismissal of Sir Khawaja, the Prime Minister, by the Governor-General, Muhammad, signalled a troubling trend in Pakistani political history.
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Sir Khawaja died in 1964, aged 70.
Tomb of Khawaja Nazimuddin at DhakaHe was buried at Suhrawardy Udyan in his hometown of Dhaka.
Honours
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1926, and was knighted in 1934 by the King-Emperor George V, when he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE).
The Nazimabad and North Nazimabad suburbs of Karachi and Nazimuddin Road of Dhaka have been named in honour of Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin.
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Nazimuddin was the last sincere leader we had from the Pakistan Movement. His overthrow by Ghulam Mohammad was what evoked the doctrine of necessity which was later used by corrupt dictators like Zia and Musharraf.