| Feroz Khan Noon | |
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| 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan | |
| In office 16 December 1957 – 7 October 1958 |
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| President | Iskander Mirza |
| Preceded by | Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar |
| Succeeded by | Nurul Amin |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 12 September 1956 – 17 October 1957 |
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| Prime Minister | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy |
| Preceded by | Hamidul Huq Choudhury |
| Succeeded by | Manzur Qadir |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 June 1893 Punjab, British India |
| Died | 9 December 1970 (aged 77) Nurpur Noon, Pakistan |
| Political party | Republican Party (1955–1970) |
| Other political affiliations |
Muslim League (Before 1955) |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Malik Sir Feroz Khan Noon, KCSI, KCIE, Kt (1893–1970) was a politician from Pakistan.
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Born on 18th of June 1893 at village Hamoka,tehsil Khushab, Punjab. He was educated at Aitchison College, Lahore.
He was educated at Oxford University and belonged to the Noon family (Rajput). 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.
Noon was knighted in 1933 and appointed a KCIE in 1937 and a KCSI in 1941.
Noon was appointed Chief Minister of the Punjab province from 1953 to 1956 by Khwaja Nazimuddin, following the dismissal of his predecessor, Mian Mumtaz Daultana, in the wake of the Lahore riots of 1953. He then became Foreign Minister of Pakistan until 1957.
On December 16, 1957 he was elected as the seventh Prime Minister of Pakistan. He held this post until October 7, 1958, when martial law was enforced for the first time in Pakistan's history by Iskander Mirza.
Many people have been critical of Feroz Khan Noon's tenure in Foreign Office. Especially, during Suez crisis, he failed to sympathize with Egypt against invasion from combined forces of France, Britain and Israel. Mazhar Ali Khan, in the editorial of Pakistan Times (dated:14 November, 1956), titled 'Darkness at High Noon', wrote "it would appear from Mr Noon's strange words and deeds, that he is still living in the dim past-the days when service to the British was accepted by men of his class as the high road to advancement".<Mazhar A. Khan: Pakistan; The First Twelve Years. The Pakistan Times editorials of Mazahar Ali Khan (page 472-473): Oxford Press. 1996></ref>
Apart from politics, Noon wrote five books, including his autobiography, From Memory. His wife, Begum Viqar un Nisa Noon, was a prominent social worker. Though not originally from Pakistan, she spent her entire life working for the betterment of the people of Pakistan.
He married an Austrian lady named Victoria in 1945. She renamed herself to Viqar un Nisa Noon after marriage and became a Muslim.[1]
Noon died on December 9, 1970 in his ancestral village of Nurpur Noon near Bhalwal, Sargodha District.
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Frederick Chalmers |
Governor of East Bengal 1950–1953 |
Succeeded by Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman |
| Preceded by Mian Mumtaz Daultana |
Chief Minister of Punjab 1953–1955 |
Succeeded by Abdul Hamid Khan Dasti |
| Preceded by Hamidul Huq Choudhury |
Foreign Minister of Pakistan 1956–1958 |
Succeeded by Manzur Qadir |
| Preceded by Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar |
Prime Minister of Pakistan 1957–1958 |
Succeeded by Nurul Amin took this office in 1971 |
| Preceded by Mian Mumtaz Daultana |
Minister of Defence 1957–1958 |
Succeeded by Muhammad Ayub Khuhro |
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