Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Nawab Sir
Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash
Order:3rd
Office:Chief Minister of West Pakistan
Term Start:18 March 1958
Term End:7 October 1958
Governor:Akhter Husain
Office1:9th Minister of Finance
Predecessor1:Syed Mohammad Ahsan
President1:Yahya Khan
Successor1:Mubashir Hassan
Termend1:22 February 1971
Termstart1:4 August 1969
Predecessor:Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan
Successor:Last

Nawab Sir Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash (Urdu: 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 Punjab, West Pakistan and Pakistan.[1] Muzaffar Qizilbash started his legislative career as a Unionist, later joining the Muslim League and subsequently the Republican Party. He later served as Minister for Industries in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar (Muslim League) from October 18, 1957 - December 16, 1957. Afterwards, he served as Minister for Industries, Commerce and Parliamentary Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Feroz Khan Noon (Republican) from December 16, 1957 - March 18, 1958, when he was appointed Chief Minister of West Pakistan.

His successor as Minister for Industries and Commerce was Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan, 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 President Iskander Mirza.

After the fall of the Ayub Khan government, Qizilbash served as Finance Minister of Pakistan in the presidential cabinet of President and Chief Martial Law Administrator General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan from August 4, 1969 - February 22, 1971.[2] Shahtaj Qizilbash was the niece of Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash. Nawab Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash owned the historically significant Nisar Haveli in the Walled City of Lahore area for a while after the Independence of Pakistan in 1947.[3]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.pap.gov.pk/uploads/previous_members/L-1937-1945.shtml Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash listed as member of Punjab Provincial Assembly in British India
  2. Web site: Why Pakistanis do not love finance ministers. Usman Hayat. Dawn (newspaper). 25 December 2017. 24 January 2018.
  3. https://nation.com.pk/29-Sep-2017/ashura-an-occasion-of-sunni-shia-unity-at-nisar-haveli Ashura an occasion of Sunni Shia unity at Nisar Haveli, Lahore