Ghazanfar Ali Khan

Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan Khokhar
Indian Minister of Health
In office
2 September 1946 – 14 August 1947
Prime MinisterJawaharlal Nehru
Succeeded byRajkumari Amrit Kaur
Minister of Finance of Alwar State
In office
11 January 1933 – 13 February 1937
MonarchJai Singh Prabhakar
Prime MinisterFrancis Verner Wylie
Preceded byL Alak Dhari
Succeeded byRao Sahib Lala Ramlal Anand
Personal details
Born(1895-08-16)16 August 1895[1][2]
Pind Dadan Khan, Jhelum district, Punjab, British India Now in Punjab, Pakistan.
Died17 April 1963(1963-04-17) (aged 67)[1][2]

Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan Khokhar (16 August 1895 – 17 April 1963) was an Indian politician and monarch. He was born in Pind Dadan Khan, a town in Jhelum district, British India.[1] He was a leading member of the All India Muslim League and a trusted lieutenant of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, serving in the Interim Government of India of 1946 as a member of the Central Legislative Assembly of India.[3]

After independence of Pakistan in 1947, he became the minister of Food, Agriculture and Health in the Government of Pakistan and finally a diplomat for Pakistan in many countries from 1948 to 1957.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c d http://storyofpakistan.com/raja-ghazanfar-ali-khan Khokhar, Profile of Ghazanfar Ali Khan Khokhar on storyofpakistan.com website, Published 4 January 2008, Retrieved 9 February 2017
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference findpk was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Khursheed Kamal Aziz (1992). Public life in Muslim India, 1850-1947: a compendium of basic information on political, social, religious, cultural and educational organizations active in pre-partition India. The University of Michigan. ISBN 9789694021195. Retrieved 12 March 2014.Page 257 & 344