Nawab Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash ( ur, نواب مظفر علی خان قزلباش) was born in 1908. He was a Pakistani politician from the Punjab and a minister in the governments of the

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West Pakistan West Pakistan ( ur, , translit=Mag̱ẖribī Pākistān, ; bn, পশ্চিম পাকিস্তান, translit=Pôścim Pakistan) was one of the two Provincial exclaves created during the One Unit Scheme in 1955 in Pakistan. It was ...

and

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. Muzaffar Qizilbash started his legislative career as a Unionist, later joining the

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and subsequently the Republican Party. He later served as Minister for Industries in the cabinet of

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Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar ( ur, ابراہیم اسماعیل چندریگر; 15 September 1897 – 26 September 1960), best known as I. I. Chundrigar, was a Pakistani politician who served as the sixth prime minister of Pakistan, appointed in ...

(Muslim League) from October 18, 1957 - December 16, 1957. Afterwards, he served as Minister for Industries, Commerce and Parliamentary Affairs in the cabinet of

Feroz Khan Noon Sir Malik Feroz Khan Noon, ( ur, ملک فیروز خان نون; 7 May 18939 December 1970), best known as Feroze Khan, was a Pakistani politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Pakistan from 1957 until being removed wh ...

(

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) from December 16, 1957 - March 18, 1958, when he was appointed

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. His successor as Minister for Industries and Commerce was

Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan ( ur, سردار عبد الرشید خان) (1906 - ?1995) was a senior police officer from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and cabinet minister in Pakistan. Born in Dera Ismail Khan, Sardar Rashid was educated at I ...

, the incumbent Chief Minister of West Pakistan, while the Parliamentary Affairs portfolio was assigned to Sardar Amir Azam Khan. Qizilbash was later Chief Minister of West Pakistan from March 1958 - October 7, 1958 when the cabinet was dismissed on the declaration of Martial Law by

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Iskander Mirza Sahibzada Iskander Ali Mirza ( bn, ইস্কান্দার আলী মির্জা; ur, ; 13 November 1899 – 13 November 1969), , was a Pakistani Bengali general officer and civil servant who was the first President of Pakista ...

. After the fall of the Ayub Khan government, Qizilbash served as

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in the presidential cabinet of

and Chief Martial Law Administrator General

Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan , (Urdu: ; 4 February 1917 – 10 August 1980); commonly known as Yahya Khan, was a Pakistani military general who served as the third President of Pakistan and Chief Martial Law Administrator following his p ...

from August 4, 1969 - February 22, 1971. Shahtaj Qizilbash was the niece of Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash. Nawab Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash owned the historically significant ''Nisar Haveli'' in the

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area for a while after the Independence of Pakistan in 1947.Ashura an occasion of Sunni Shia unity at Nisar Haveli, Lahore
The Nation (newspaper), Published 29 September 2017, Retrieved 24 January 2018

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