Family
He was married to his cousin, Jehangira Begum, however the couple was later separated in 1918. His father was died in 1919. After the death of his father the British Government awarded the grants and scholarship to Liaquat Ali Khan. He went to England for higher education.
Education
In 1913, Ali Khan attended the Aligarh Muslim University, graduating with a BSc degree in Political science and LLB in 1918. Liaquat Ali Khan was educated at the Aligarh Muslim University in India where he obtained degrees in law and political scienc. In 1919, to England attending Oxford University’s Exeter College to pursue his higher education. awarded the Master of Law in Law and Justice in 1921, He returned to India after qualifying as a barrister in England in 1922.
Political Career
He entered politics in 1923. In 1926, Liaquat was being elected first to the provincial legislature of the United Provinces and then to the central legislative assembly. He joined the Muslim League and soon became closely associated with Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He was a Pakistani statesman, lawyer, politician, and one of the leading founding fathers of Pakistan.
He became the first Prime Minister of Pakistan; he also held cabinet portfolio as a first foreign, defence, and frontier regions minister from 1947 until his assassination in 1951. Prior to the partition, Khan briefly tenured as the first finance minister in the interim government led by its Governor General Mountbatten.
Prime Minister of Pakistan (1947-51)
After independence on August 15, 1947, Liaquat Ali Khan was appointed as the first Prime Minister of Pakistan by the founding fathers of Pakistan. Quaid Azam Muhammad Ali jinnah took oath from Liaqat Ali Khan. His government faced serious challenges e.g. the dispute over Kashmir by India, administer the country, legislation, foreign relations, poor banking system, socialist nationalist challenges and different religious ideologies.
Some of the earliest reforms Khan took were to centralize the Muslim League, and he planned and prepared the Muslim League to become the leading authority of Pakistan. Khan first adopted the Government of India Act 1935 to administer the country, although his lawmakers and legislators continued to work on a different document of governance. Finally in 1949 after Jinnah’s death, Prime Minister Khan intensified his vision to establish an Islamic-based system in the country.
Death
On 16 October 1951, Khan was shot twice in the chest while he was addressing a gathering of 100,000 at Company Bagh, Rawalpindi, Punjab Pakistan. He is buried at Mazar-e-Quaid, the mausoleum built for Jinnah in Karachi. The Municipal Park, where he was assassinated, was renamed Liaquat Bagh (Bagh means Garden) in his honor. It is the same location where ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in 2007.