Chaudhry Ali Akbar Khan

Chaudhry Ali Akbar Khan
چوہدری علی اکبر خان
Minister for Home and Kashmir Affairs
In office
17 August 1965 – 30 November 1966
Preceded byAyub Khan
Succeeded byAfzal Rahman Khan
Ambassador of Pakistan to Saudi Arabia
In office
1958–1962
Preceded byKhawaja Shahabuddin
Ambassador of Pakistan to Sudan
In office
1957–1958
Minister for Education of Punjab
In office
1953–1955
Personal details
Born(1910-09-28)28 September 1910
Kolian, Hoshiarpur district, Punjab, British India
(now Punjab, India)
Died8 October 1967(1967-10-08) (aged 57)
Lyallpur, West Pakistan, Pakistan
(now Punjab, Pakistan)
Other political
affiliations
All India Muslim League
SpouseBegum Ali Akbar Khan
ChildrenNisar Akbar Khan
RelativesChaudhry Umar Daraz Khan (son-in-law)
OccupationPolitician, diplomat

Chaudhry Ali Akbar Khan (Urdu/Punjabi: چوہدری علی اکبر خان; 28 September 1910 – 8 October 1967) was a Pakistani politician and diplomat. He was elected as a member of the Punjab Provincial Assembly in British India in 1946. A prominent Pakistan Movement activist, Khan went on to serve in the newly-independent state of Pakistan as the provincial education minister of Punjab from 1953 to 1955 under chief minister Malik Feroz Khan Noon, and as the federal Minister for Home and Kashmir Affairs in the cabinet of president Ayub Khan from 1965 to 1966.[1]

He was also appointed as Pakistan's first ambassador to Sudan from 1957 to 1958, and as ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1958 to 1962.[1]

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