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Sir Feroz Khan Noon

Sir Feroz Khan Noon was a politician from Pakistan. He was educated at Oxford University and belonged to one of the most influential landlord families of the Punjab. He held many posts in government both before and after the independence and was an important figure in the Pakistan movement.

He was the High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1941, and in 1947 he was sent as Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's special envoy to some countries of the Muslim world. This one-man delegation was the first official mission sent abroad by the Pakistani government. The aim of the mission was to introduce Pakistan, to explain the reasons of its creation, to familiarize the Muslim countries with its internal problems and to get moral and financial support from these countries. Noon performed the role assigned to him in a successful manner.

Noon was then Chief Minister of the Punjab state from 1953 to 1956, after which he assumed charge as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan until 1957.

On December 16, 1957 he was elected as the 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan. He held this post till October 7, 1958, when martial law was enforced for the first time in Pakistan's history by General(Retd) Iskander Mirza.

Apart from politics, Feroz Khan Noon also proved his capabilities in the field of academics. He wrote five books, including his autobiography, From Memory. His wife Viqar-un-Nisa Noon, though not originally from Pakistan, spent her entire life working for the betterment of the people of Pakistan, and proved to be a great social worker.

Feroz Khan Noon died on December 9, 1970 in his ancestral village of Nurpur Noon, near Sargodha.

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