Malik Ghulam Muhammad

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Sir Malik Ghulam MuhammadTemplate:Efn (20 April 1895 – 29 August 1956) was a Pakistani politician and economist who served as the third governor-general of Pakistan from 1951 to 1955.

Educated at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), he joined the Indian Civil Service as a chartered accountant at the Indian Railway Accounts Service before being promoted to join the Ministry of Finance under Liaquat Ali Khan in 1946. After the Independence of Pakistan 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. He co-founded Mahindra & Mohammed in 1945 (later Mahindra & Mahindra in 1948) with Jagdish Chandra Mahindra and Kailash Chandra Mahindra.

Following the assassination of prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan in 1951, Malik was invited to be the Governor-General by Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin who himself took over the government as Prime Minister. Nationwide violence in the aftermath of the language movement in East Bengal and religious riots in Lahore made him dismiss the Nazimuddin administration using the reserve powers to restore stability. In 1955, he was forced to resign from the post of Governor-General due to worsening of his health conditions by then-Interior Minister Iskandar Ali Mirza, who himself took control of the office. After resignation, he fought a brief but unsuccessful battle with his illness, that ultimately resulted in his death 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 martial law in Pakistan, and devaluing nascent democratic norms by sacking the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan during Prime Minister Bogra's tenure.<ref name=storyofpakistan>Ghulam Muhammad - Story of Pakistan, Retrieved 8 June 2017</ref>

BiographyEdit

Family background and educationEdit

Malik Ghulam Muhammad was born in a Kakazai family, in suburban neighbourhood near Mochi Gate, in Lahore, Punjab, India.<ref name=express>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="pakistanherald">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="samaatv">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Kakazai">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Routledge, Kumarasingham">Template:Cite book</ref> After completing his schooling in Lahore, he went to Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh to attend the MAO College of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), and was a roommate of Nazir Ahmed, a physicist and a bureaucrat.<ref name="Springer, Rizvi">Template:Cite book</ref> At AMU he gained a BA degree in accountancy.<ref name="Samaa'TV, 2012">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="storyofpakistan" />

Civil service and business interestsEdit

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After graduating from AMU, he joined the Audit and Accounts Service in March 1920.<ref name="record_list">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Springer, Malik">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Mustafain & Murtazain, Raza">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp In January 1921, he received his first official appointment as assistant audit officer with the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway.<ref name="record_list"/> Upon its merger into the East Indian Railway in 1925, Muhammad was briefly appointed a government executor of accounts with the Bengal and North Western Railway, serving in this capacity from January to November. Having earned a reputation as an able and competent accountant, he was then appointed to the Indian Railway Board before becoming the Controller of General Supplies and Purchase of the Indian Railways.<ref name="Mustafain & Murtazain, Raza"/>Template:Rp From June 1932 to February 1934, he was attached to the administration of Bhopal State, and worked under its nawab, Hamidullah Khan.<ref name="record_list"/> In March 1934, he returned to government service and was appointed deputy accountant-general (posts and telegraphs); in May, he was appointed as officiating deputy director-general (posts and telegraphs, finance), and was confirmed in the appointment in January 1935.<ref name="record_list"/> In July 1936, he was appointed as officiating financial officer in the same department, was confirmed in his appointment in April 1937 and was promoted to financial officer (communications) in October.<ref name="record_list"/>

Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Muhammad was successively appointed to increasingly important positions: chief controller of stores in March 1940, controller-general of purchase in September 1940 and additional secretary to the Department of Supply in March 1941.<ref name="record_list"/> His wartime services as a professional accountant were recognized by the British government that year when he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in the 1941 Birthday Honours list.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> In May 1942, Muhammad was assigned to the Hyderabad State administration,<ref name="record_list"/> in which he served as an advisor to the Nizam of Hyderabad.

In 1945, he helped co-found the Mahindra and Mohamed Steel Company together with steel industrialists, JC Mahindra and KC Mahindra where Muhammad served the company's chartered accountant.<ref name="Lexington Books, Jacobs">Template:Cite book</ref> In 1945–47, the company initially registered as the Mahindra & Mohammad, and started the licensed production of the Willys jeeps in Bombay as Muhammad looked after the company's revenue and finances.<ref name="Mahindra">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

After World War II, he was asked by Nawab of Bahawalpur, Sir Sadeq Mohammad Khan V to represent him at the Round Table Conferences, and during this time, he began formatting political relations with Liaquat Ali Khan.<ref name="Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He left Hyderabad to join the Ministry of Finance in 1946.<ref name="Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust" /> In the 1946 King's Birthday Honours List, the last honours list in which Indian civil servants were recognised, he received a knighthood.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

Finance Minister (1947–51)Edit

In 1946–47, Muhammad left Mahindra & Mahindra and joined the Ministry of Finance as a Cabinet Secretary under Finance Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, assisting him in drafting and preparing India's first union budget.<ref name="Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust" />

After witnessing the Partition of India in 1947, he decided to acquire the citizenship of Pakistan and permanently settled in his native city, Lahore, on 14 August 1947.<ref name="Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust" /> He was brought up in the Liaquat administration when Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan appointed him as country's first Finance Minister.<ref name="Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust" /> He presented the first budget and submitted the draft of the First Five-Year Plans in 1948.<ref name="Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust" />

In 1949, Muhammad invited leaders of the Muslim world to the International Islamic Economics Organization in Pakistan, where he emphasised the idea of a Muslim economic bloc.<ref name="Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust" /> During this time, he survived the fatal attack of paralysis that made him unable to talk or move effectively and began experiencing with poor health conditions.<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, 2014">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust" />

Governor-GeneralEdit

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As early as 1951, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan had made a decision of removing Finance Minister Ghulam Muhammad due to his continuing worsening health conditions.<ref name="Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust" /> However, the decision was not taken due to the assassination of Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan in October 1951.<ref name="Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust" /> On 17 October 1951, Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin nominated himself to succeed as Prime Minister, appointing his own cabinet, and consequently resigned his position as Governor-General of Pakistan and recommended King George VI to appoint Muhammad to succeed him as Governor-General.<ref name="Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust" />

In 1953, Muhammad represented Pakistan at the Coronation of Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey alongside the Governors-General from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa and Dominion of Ceylon.<ref name="Pride of Pakistan">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Upon returning to Pakistan, he witnessed the agitation caused by the language movement in Dacca in East Pakistan, and the series of anti-Qadiyani protests in Lahore, Punjab in Pakistan. Both events led him to use the reserve powers awarded by the Government of India Act 1935 against Prime Minister Nazimuddin, effectively dismissing his administration only to be replaced with diplomat M. A. Bogra.<ref name="Routledge, Chak">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp

In 1954, the Constituent Assembly made legislative attempts to try changing the 1935 act to establish checks and balances on the Governor-General's powers.<ref name="Cambridge University Press, Siddiqui">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp In response, Muhammad dismissed the Constituent Assembly, an action that was challenged in the Sindh High Court by Maulvi Tamizuddin, the Speaker of the Assembly.<ref name="Routledge, Chak"/>Template:Rp The Sindh High Court's Chief Justice Sir George Constantine ruled the Governor-General's decision unlawful, but the ruling was overturned by the Federal Court of Pakistan, led by Chief Justice Muhammad Munir, in a split decision.<ref name="Routledge, Chak"/>Template:Rp

Historians consider this action the beginning of viceregal politics in Pakistan, in which the military and civil bureaucracy, not elected officials, would gain increasing influence over the country's policymaking.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

During this time, Muhammad's health began to deteriorate, and paralysis spread through his whole body, forcing him to take a leave of absence in 1955 to seek treatment in the United Kingdom.<ref name="Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust" /> In his capacity, he appointed Interior Minister Iskandar Ali Mirza as acting Governor-General, but Mirza dismissed him from his post in order to take his place, supported by the Constituent Assembly's legislators.<ref name="Nazaria-e-Pakistan Trust" />

DeathEdit

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Malik's grave at Fauji Qabrastan, next to Gora Qabrastan (Christians) near CSD off Shahra-e-Faisal Karachi

On 29 August 1956, Malik Ghulam Muhammad died and was buried in Karachi in Foji Qabristan, next to Christian's Graveyard, Gora Qabristan in Karachi.

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