Chaudhry Mohammad Ali | |
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Prime Minister of Pakistan | |
In office 12 August 1955 – 12 September 1956 |
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Monarch | Elizabeth II (Before 1956) |
President | Iskander Mirza (From 1956) |
Governor General | Iskander Mirza (before 1956) |
Preceded by | Muhammad Ali Bogra |
Succeeded by | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy |
Minister of Defence | |
In office 12 August 1955 – 12 September 1956 |
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Preceded by | Ayub Khan |
Succeeded by | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy |
Minister of Finance | |
In office 24 October 1951 – 11 August 1955 |
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Prime Minister |
Khawaja Nazimuddin Muhammad Ali Bogra |
Preceded by | Malik Ghulam Muhammad |
Succeeded by | Amjad Ali |
Personal details | |
Born |
Jalandhar, Punjab, British India (now in Punjab, India) |
15 July 1905
Died | 2 December 1980 Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
(aged 75)
Nationality |
Indian (1905–1947) Pakistani (1947–1980) |
Political party | Muslim League |
Alma mater | University of the Punjab |
Chaudhry Mohammad Ali (Punjabi, Urdu: چوہدری محمد علی; 15 July 1905 – 2 December 1980) was Prime Minister of Pakistan and a civil service officer. He led the country for only one year, from 12 August 1955 to 12 September 1956, but was credited with introducing its 1956 Constitution.
His son, Khalid Anwer, is a well-known lawyer and constitutional expert, and a former federal minister for law, justice and human rights and younger son is Dr. Amjad Ahsan Ali is well known doctor.
Ali was born in Jalandhar, India, in 1905 in a noble Arain family. He earned a Master of Science degree from Punjab University in 1927 and was commissioned into the Indian Civil Service.
He began his career in the financial sector of the Indian government and was one of the highest-ranking Muslim civil servants in the British Raj. In 1936, he began working for the Audit and Accounts Service, serving as the state accountant for Bahawalpur.
In 1945, Ali joined the British government and became the first Indian to be appointed financial adviser to the Secretary of State for War, Percy James Grigg. Before India gained its independence in 1947, he worked with Hirubhai M. Patel (a future finance and home minister of India) and Walter John Christie to prepare a document titled The Administrative Consequences of Partition.