Manzur Qadir

Manzur Qadir
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
29 October 1958 – 8 June 1962
President Ayub Khan
Preceded by Feroz Khan Noon
Succeeded by Muhammad Ali Bogra
Personal details
Born (1913-11-28)28 November 1913
Lahore, British India
Died 12 October 1974(1974-10-12) (aged 60)
London, England
Political party All-India Muslim League
(Before 1947)
Muslim League (1947–1958)

Manzur Qadir (28 November 1913 – 12 October 1974)[1] (Urdu: منظور قادر‎) was a leading Pakistani jurist of the 1950s and 1960s. He also served as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan in the military government of Ayub Khan from 1958 to 1962.[2][3]

He was the son of Sir Abdul Qadir. He married a daughter of Fazli Husain, a political leader of Punjab, British India.[4]

In 1962, Qadir served as the chairman of the constitutional committee which eventually formulated Constitution of Pakistan of 1962.[5]

Manzur Qadir served as the Chief Justice of Lahore High Court from 1962–1963.

View of tolerance and respect

Qadir was a role-model to and a friend of Khushwant Singh - a famous journalist and editor in India. Both friends shared a common worldview of tolerance and mutual respect.[3] In February 2015, this view was endorsed by a panel of guests on a TV show including late Khushwant Singh's son Rahul Singh, Pakistani Senator Aitezaz Ahsan, an Indian writer Shobha De and the son of Manzur Qadir - Basharat Qadir. Basharat Qadir related how Khushwant Singh handed over the keys of his house in Lahore to Manzur Qadir at the time of Partition of British India in 1947 before he left for India.[6]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.rulers.org/indexq.html
  2. ↑ Without a foreign minister Dawn (newspaper), Published 19 September 2013, Retrieved 16 November 2017
  3. 1 2 Obituary Khushwant Singh: 'The last Pakistani living on Indian soil' Dawn (newspaper), Updated 30 March 2014, Retrieved 16 November 2017
  4. ↑ J. Henry Korson. Contemporary Problems of Pakistan. (Brill Archive, 1974) p. 10.
  5. ↑ Samin Khan's statements about his own role in the formation of the 1962 constitution Archived 2010-10-30 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ Outrageous but honest Dawn (newspaper), Published 21 February 2015, Retrieved 16 November 2017
Political offices
Preceded by
Feroz Khan Noon		 Minister of Foreign Affairs
1958–1962		 Succeeded by
Muhammad Ali Bogra



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