Former PM: Feroze Khan Noon remembered

ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Feroz Khan Noon was remembered on his death anniversary.

He was born in 1893. Noon practised law at Lahore High Court from 1917 to 1926 and then joined politics. He was appointed as Minister of Health and Education in the Punjab cabinet.

He served as High Commissioner for India in London from 1936 to 1941. He was appointed as a member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council in 1941 and retained the position till 1945. Simultaneously, he held the position of Defence Minister of India from 1942 to 1945.

In October 1947, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah sent Noon as his special envoy to some countries of the Muslim world. He was also appointed as the governor of East Pakistan.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 10^th, 2012.