Chaudhry Muhammad Ali

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President of Pakistan Muslim League
In office
12 August 1955 – 12 September 1956
Preceded byMohammad Ali Bogra
Succeeded byI. I. Chundrigar
Personal details
Born
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali

(1905-07-15)15 July 1905
Pakistani (from 1947)
Political partyNizam-e-Islam (until 1969)
Other political
affiliations		Muslim League (1936–1956)
Children5, including Khalid
Alma materPunjab University (BSc and MSc in Chem.)
Occupation
  • Civil servant
  • politician
Website

Chaudhry Muhammad Ali

Islamic Republic
.

He resigned from the position of Prime Minister in 1958, and from the

secret defections in favour of the Republican Party.[1]

Biography

Muhammad Ali was born in

Punjab on 15 July 1905 into an Arain Punjabi Muslim family.[2][3][4]

After his

Islamia College until 1928.[6][5][1][7]

In 1928, Muhammad Ali went to join the

secretaries to the Partition Council presided over by Lord Mountbatten, later appointed as Finance Secretary at the Ministry of Finance.[2] Over this issue of partition, Muhammad Ali worked with H.M. Patel and Walter Christir to prepare a document titled The Administrative Consequences of Partition.[8]

At the time of the India's partition in 1947, Muhammad Ali opted for Pakistan.[9]

After the

Finance Secretary under Finance Minister Sir Ghulam Muhammad, along with Victor Turner, but this appointment lasted until 1948 due a cabinet reshuffle.[2] He was appointed as the Federal Secretary at the Establishment Division, and aided greatly in setting up the civil bureaucracy and preparing the nation's first federal budget presented by Finance Minister Sir Ghulam Muhammad in 1951.[2]

Prime Minister of Pakistan

In 1951, Muhammad Ali was appointed as the

Finance Minister by Prime Minister K. Nazimuddin and was announced to be kept in the Finance ministry in Bogra's Talent ministry in 1953.[10]

On 11 August 1955, Muhammad Ali was appointed as the

One Unit scheme despite regional opposition.[11]

He favored French architect

Michel Ecochard over Greek architect Constantinos Doxiadis for the planning of the new capital in 1955, though the project nonetheless went Doxiadis in the 1960s.[12]

It was during his term that the first Constitution of Pakistan was promulgated, on 23 March 1956, where the

party presidency.[1]

In July 1956, Muhammad Ali met with the Indian Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru of India in an attempt to settle the key issue that was preventing the normalization of relations between Pakistan and India. This was the issue of Kashmir that had been divided between India and Pakistan in 1948. That issue remains unsettled to this day.

Despite his feat, Prime Minister Muhammad Ali proved to be a poor politician who failed to maintain control over his party when he reached a compromise to dismissed the cabinet members of his own party in favor of appointing the cabinet composing of Republican Party and Awami League in 1955–56.

Chief minister of West-Pakistan who subsequently helped in secret trading in favor of Republican Party that made the Republicans in majority in the National Assembly, the Muslim League demanded its president to investigate the matter but Prime Minister Ali refused to support the parliamentary resolution in the National Assembly by believing that "he was responsible only to the Cabinet and the Parliament, not the party."[1]

On 8 September 1956, the parliamentary leaders of the Muslim League under A.Q. Khan, successfully brought the motion of no confidence at the National Assembly that effectively removed him from the party's presidency.[1] Despite support from President Mirza, Prime Minister Ali eventually resigned when Huseyn S. Suhrawardy gained support from the Muslim League for the premiership.[9]

After his resignation, Ali joined the National Bank as an advisor. He tried playing a role in national politics in the 1960s,[9] but was ostracized by the Muslim League due to his political role played in 1950s.[citation needed]

His son,

Law and Justice minister in Sharif's administrations while his younger son is Dr. Amjad Ahsan Ali is well known medical doctor. In 1967, he wrote his memoirs and died due to a cardiac arrest on 2 December 1982 in estate in Karachi where he was buried.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Chaudhry Muhammad Ali Becomes Prime Minister". storyofpakistan.com. Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan: Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust. 1 June 2003. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Chaudhry Muhammad Ali–Former Prime Minister of Pakistan". storyofpakistan.com. Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan: Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust. 1 June 2003. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  3. ISBN 9780813379852
    . Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  4. ^ Naz, Huma (1990). Bureaucratic Elites & Political Developments in Pakistan, 1947-58. National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University. p. 157. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  5. ^
    ISBN 9781317245100
    . Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  6. ^ Blattner, Elwyn James; Blattner, James Elwyn (1955). Who's who in U.A.R. and the Near East (in French). Paul Barbey Press. p. 294. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Chaudhri Mohammad Ali—prime minister of Pakistan". Encyclopædia Britannica. London, Eng. U.K. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  8. ISBN 0-907799-04-3
    pp95-102
  9. ^
    ISBN 978-1-57607-712-2
    . In 1947 he became secretary-general to the government [of Pakistan] ... Mirza did not want Suhrawardy to replace him [Choudhury Muhammad Ali] as prime minister and tried energetically but unsuccessfully to dissuade Choudhury Muhammad Ali from resigning. But Suhrawardy's appointment as prime minister was nonetheless forthcoming ... During the early years of the Mohammed Ayub Khan regime, Ali acted as an adviser to the National Bank of Pakistan. In 1962 he joined the opposition, but soon increasing frailty prevented him from playing an active or formal role.
  10. ISBN 9789690014245
    . Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  11. ISBN 9780816061846
    . Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  12. ISBN 9781317565130
    .
  13. ^ "The Constitution of 1956". storyofpakistan.com. Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust. 1 June 2003. Archived from the original on 25 November 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  14. ^ Asian Recorder. K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press. 1981. Retrieved 29 January 2018.

Notes

  1. Urdu: چوہدری محمد علی; Bengali
    : চৌধুরী মোহাম্মদ আলী

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Political offices
Preceded by
Minister of Finance

1951–1955 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Muhammad Ali Bogra
 Prime Minister of Pakistan
1955–1956 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Ayub Khan
Minister of Defence

1955–1956


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