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This lecture explores the life of Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, in the years before 1947. Mohammad Ali Jinnah appointed Liaquat the General-Secretary of the All-India Muslim League (AIML) in 1936, and he became the coordinator of League activities in the provinces and in New Delhi, including the creation of the League’s newspaper, Dawn. Liaquat developed a close relationship with Jinnah, who, in 1939 appointed him one of the executors of his will, and in 1943, called him my “right hand”. This lecture will touch on Liaquat’s background, personality and career including his ancestry, his family, his loves and hobbies, his education at Aligarh and Oxford and his personality and intellectual make-up, as well his devotion to the ideals of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Iqbal, and Jinnah. The lecture traces his development from being a regional politician to becoming a pillar of the AIML. He is one of the greatest heroes of the Pakistan Movement and a pivotal figure in the creation of Pakistan.

Roger D. Long is a professor of history who has taught at Eastern Michigan University since 1987. He received his B.A. from the University of London in South Asian history and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was supervised by Stanley Wolpert for his dissertation on Liaquat Ali Khan. He has also taught at Aitchison College in Lahore, at Kansai University of Foreign Studies in Japan, at California State University, Fullerton, and the University of Calgary in Canada.

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