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Apr 20, 1895 Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan Died on 12 Sep 1956 (aged 61)
3rd Governor General of Pakistan
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About Malik Ghulam Muhammad
- Sir Malik Ghulam Muhammad CIE (Urdu: ??? ???? ?????; 6), was a Pakistani financier who served as the third Governor-General of Pakistan, appointed in this capacity in 1951 until being dismissed in 1955 due to health conditions.
- He co-founded Mahindra & Mohammed in 1945 (later Mahindra & Mahindra in 1948) with Jagdish Chandra Mahindra and Kailash Chandra Mahindra. Educated at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), he joined the Indian Civil Service as a chartered accountant at the Indian Railway's account service before being promoted to join the Ministry of Finance under Liaquat Ali Khan in 1946.
- After the independence of Pakistan as a result of Partition of India in 1947, he joined the Liaquat administration as the country's first Finance Minister where he helped draft the first five-year plans to alleviate the national economy of Pakistan. Following the assassination of Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan in 1951, he was appointed Governor-General by Khawaja Nazimuddin who took over the government as Prime Minister.
- Nationwide violence in the aftermath of the language movement in Dacca and religious riots in Lahore led to him dismissing Nazimuddin's administration and later Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Bogra using the reserve powers to restore control of the Law and order in Pakistan in 1953–54.
- In 1955, he was forcefully dismissed from the post of Governor-General by then-Interior Minister Iskander Ali Mirza due to the worsening of his health conditions.
- Afterwards, he fought a brief battle with his illness and then died in 1956. His personal image is viewed negatively by Pakistan's historians, criticized for giving rise to political intrigue, undermining the civilian control of the military by authorizing the Martial law in Pakistan, and devaluing nascent democratic norms by sacking the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan.
