Today marks the 73rd death anniversary of Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s inaugural Prime Minister and Shaheed-I-Millat.
Liaquat Ali Khan, born in Karnal, East Punjab, received his education at Aligarh Muslim University in India and Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
He subsequently contended with Quaid-E-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah to secure an independent nation for the Muslims of the subcontinent.
Liaquat Ali Khan was slain on this day in 1951 during a public assembly at Company Bagh in Rawalpindi, which was subsequently renamed Liaquat Bagh in his honor.
He is interred at the Mazar-e-Quaid complex in Karachi.
