From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1951: Seventy-five years ago: Backing for Nazimuddin

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KARACHI: Sind wants Prime Minister Khwaja Nazimuddin to be the President of the Pakistan Muslim League. The Sind Provincial Muslim League Council yesterday [Nov 11] unanimously recommended the Prime Minister’s name for the Presidentship. Record number of 127 out of the total of 150 members of the Council attended the meeting which was held under the chairmanship of the Provincial President Mr M. A. Khuhro.

… The meeting deeply mourned the assassination of the Shaheed-i-Millat, Mr Liaquat Ali Khan. … Through a resolution, the Council urged the Sind Provincial Government to carry out its mandate regarding the abolition of Jagirdari in the province. … [News Agency adds:] The Council pledged that it would continue to struggle for the causes dear to the Quaid-i-Millat to make Pakistan stronger and enable it to ensure liberty to the people of Kashmir and to help the Muslim countries against exploitation of imperialist Powers.

The Sind Muslim League Council in an­­other resolution welcomed the selection of Mr Ghulam Mohammad as the Governor-Gen­eral of Pakistan and Khwaja Nazimuddin as the Prime Minister. — Staff correspondent

Published in Dawn, November 12th, 2026

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