Feroz Khan Noon
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| In office December 16, 1957 – 7 October 1958 |
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| President | Iskander Mirza |
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| Preceded by | Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad Ayub Khan |
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| In office 12 September 1956 – 17 October 1957 |
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| Prime Minister | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy |
| Preceded by | Hamid-ul-Haq Chaudhry |
| Succeeded by | Manzur Qadir |
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| Born | 18 June 1893 Punjab |
| Died | December 9, 1970 (aged 77) Nurpur Noon, Bhalwal, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Political party | Muslim League |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Malik Sir Feroz Khan Noon (1893-1970) was a politician from Pakistan.
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[edit] Early Life
He was educated at Oxford University and belonged to the Noon family, the most influential landowning family of the Punjab. He held many posts in government both before and after the independence and was an important figure in the Pakistan movement.
He was the High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1941, and in 1947 he was sent as Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's special envoy to some countries of the Muslim world. This one-man delegation was the first official mission sent abroad by the Pakistani government. The aim of the mission was to introduce Pakistan, to explain the reasons of its creation, to familiarize the Muslim countries with its internal problems, and to get moral and financial support.
[edit] Chief Minister
Noon was Chief Minister of the Punjab province from 1953 to 1956, after which he became Foreign Minister of Pakistan until 1957.
[edit] 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 social worker. Though not originally from Pakistan, spent her entire life working for the betterment of the people of Pakistan.
[edit] Death
Noon died on December 9, 1970 in his ancestral village of Nurpur Noon near Bhalwal district Sargodha.
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| Preceded by Sir Frederick Chalmers |
Governor of East Bengal 31 March 1950 - 31 March 1953 |
Succeeded by Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman |
| Preceded by Mian Mumtaz Daultana |
Chief Minister of Punjab 3 April 1953 - 21 May 1955 |
Succeeded by Abdul Hamid Khan Dasti |
| Preceded by Hamid-ul-Haq Chaudhry |
Foreign Minister of Pakistan 12 September 1956 - 7 October 1958 |
Succeeded by Manzur Qadir |
| Preceded by Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar |
Prime Minister of Pakistan 16 December 1957 - 7 October 1958 |
Succeeded by General Ayub Khan |
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