Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan reached Company Bagh (now Liaquat Bagh) in Rawalpindi at exactly 4 pm where tens of thousands of fans had gathered to listen to the Prime Minister's speech.
The stage was specially built at the request of Liaquat Ali Khan, in which a single chair was placed for him on a high platform decorated with carpets. When the 56-year-old 'Quaid-e-Millat' entered the venue wearing a special Qaraqali hat on his head and Sherwani on his body, the atmosphere resounded with slogans of 'Long live Pakistan', 'Long live Muslim League', 'Long live Quaid-e-Azam' and 'Long live Liaquat Ali Khan'.
When Liaquat Ali Khan was given a garland of flowers, a few leaves got stuck on his Qaraqali hat. Prime Minister's Political Secretary Nawab Siddique Ali Khan stepped forward and removed the leaves.
First Maulana Arifullah recited the Qur'an, then the President of the Municipality Sheikh Masood Sadiq MLA presented a letter of thanks from the people of Rawalpindi. After that Liaquat Ali Khan got up from his chair and walked towards the microphone stand which became a 'figure of dignity and seriousness, determination and thought'. People chanted slogans once again. Liaquat Ali Khan reached in front of the microphone and started his speech by taking a look at the large crowd.
The recording of this speech is available in the archives of Radio Pakistan. In this rattling recording, first the noise of applause of the people stops, then the paused, paused voice of the Leader of the Nation is heard: 'Brothers of the Nation ...' followed by two consecutive voices of 'Thai Thai', then The noise of the people, then seven seconds later another 'stop'.
Then there is the sound of someone falling and hitting the mic, then all the voices are crushed under the noise of the crowd. After ten seconds, the firing begins and continues until the end of the recording.
Why Pakistan's first Prime Minister was assassinated? Exactly 68 years have passed since this incident, during which three generations have become young, but this mystery needs to be solved in the same way as it was during the initial hurricane after this incident.
However, there is no doubt as to who committed this murder.
Syed Akbar Khan Babrak
Liaquat Ali Khan was rushed to the nearby Combined Military Hospital (CMH) but was martyred 50 minutes later by the Quaid-e-Millat.
First, Inspector Shah Mohammad fired five shots at Akbar Khan at close range on the orders of Superintendent of Police Khan Najaf Khan, then an angry mob attacked him and killed him with kicks, punches, spears and pots. Shortly afterwards, the Associated Press of Pakistan released a statement to the media stating that the killer belonged to the Khaksar Movement. A few hours later, the government confirmed that the killer belonged to the Zadran tribe of Khost Province, Afghanistan, and his name was Syed Akbar Khan Babrak.
Details about Akbar Khan began to emerge in the coming days. He was a brigadier in the army of King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan, but when Amanullah had to flee the country as a result of the civil war in Afghanistan and power passed to Zahir Shah, Akbar Khan also died seven months before India's independence in 1947. He left the country and came to India where he was given political asylum by the British and settled in Abbottabad with his family.
Akbar Khan used to get a living stipend from the British government, he continued to get a stipend even when Pakistan was formed. He is said to have been a big fan of Iqbal and Maulana Rumi and to have been a target. That is why the first bullet fired by him crossed Liaquat Ali Khan's heart.
History repeats itself
What were the motives of Akbar Khan? Did they do it alone or were they part of a larger conspiracy? Instead of arresting and interrogating the killer, why was he killed immediately and that too by the police themselves? Was Akbar Khan killed to destroy the evidence of reaching his masters?
Is it a mere coincidence that 56 years after the assassination of Pakistan's first Prime Minister, Pakistan's first female Prime Minister is assassinated in the same Liaquat Bagh? Instead of an investigation team examining every inch of the area from a convex lens, the scene is washed away with thick water pipes within two hours of the incident.
Individual action or deep conspiracy?
On November 1, 1951, two weeks after the assassination of the Quaid-e-Millat, a commission of inquiry headed by Justice Muhammad Munir was appointed which questioned 89 witnesses during 38 hearings in the following months. After all this deliberation and discussion, the commission finally wrote in its report: "This assassination was not an individual act of Syed Akbar and may be the result of a conspiracy to change the government."
But who hatched the conspiracy, and who benefited from it, remained silent on the matter. New Prime Minister Khawaja Nazimuddin has re-appointed Inspector General of Police Aitzazuddin to investigate the murder. But on August 26, 1952, he mysteriously died in a plane crash and all the evidence and documents related to the trial were burnt to ashes.
Even the file of this case was later lost and could not be produced in court despite the order of the Lahore High Court. Not only that, but Scotland Yard also carried out an investigation into the incident, but its report has not yet come to light.
However, in the years that followed, fingers kept pointing in different directions. Here are some of them:
The conspiracy was hatched by the then Finance Minister Ghulam Muhammad, Kashmir Minister Mushtaq Ahmed Gormani and Defense Secretary Sikandar Mirza because Liaquat Ali Khan was not happy with them all and wanted to sack them.
Liaquat Ali Khan had shown Mecca to India a few months back and he wanted to invade Kashmir, so India diverted him from the path and created chaos in Pakistan.
At that time, there was a Pashtunistan movement in the country with the support of Afghanistan, so Afghanistan did this. And Akbar Khan was Afghan anyway
What is the role of the Soviet Union because Liaquat Ali Khan preferred to go to the United States instead of visiting Russia two years ago and thus put Pakistan in the swing of the United States?
Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated by US President Harry Truman as the United States demanded that Pakistan persuade Iran to transfer control of its oil resources to the United States, but Liaquat Ali Khan refused, and vice versa. Ordered US to evacuate military bases in Pakistan
Eventually, the United States "confessed" to the crime
The fifth theory above has been blown up in recent years. It was claimed that the US CIA had leaked documents which admitted that Liaquat Ali Khan had been assassinated by the US.
Meanwhile, such headlines appeared in Pakistan's mainstream Urdu newspapers:
Quaid-e-Millat Liaquat Ali Khan assassinated by US, US State Department report (Daily Express)
Liaquat Ali Khan assassinated by US: US State Department documents openly admit (Dunya)
Liaquat Ali Khan's assassination mystery solved, former US President Truman assassinated, State Department documents came to light (Pakistan Daily)
However, none of the newspapers bothered to provide a link or a photograph of the leaked documents, or if that was not possible, to translate a portion of the documents. A closer look reveals that the source of all these "revelations" is a report published in Arab News in 2006 by Syed Rashid Hussain. The headline of this report is:
Declassified Papers Shed Light On US Role In Liaquat’s Murder
The report states: "A recent State Department declassification report sheds light on some interesting facts. According to the document, the US embassy in New Delhi sent a telegram on October 30, 1951.
The report further states that the telegram summarized the news of Nadeem, an Urdu newspaper published from Bhopal on October 24, 1951. The newspaper raised the question, "Is the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan the result of a deep American conspiracy?"
The leaked document is nowhere to be found on the Internet, nor is it found in the State Department's archives. But even if it does, the question is to what extent it is fair to call it a US confession because it contains only a newspaper summary of the news to the State Department, and it is the practice of embassies around the world to They keep sending news about their country, and especially negative news reports to their country. How can this be called a confession?
However, in this regard, there are some documents revealed by the US CIA in the archives which mention the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, but there is no trace of any American conspiracy in them. An intelligence briefing published October 16 identified the Khaksar movement as a possible killer, while another October 22 document mentioned the involvement of an Afghan citizen.
Another dimension
Former Army officer Sadiq Naseem in his book 'Roshni Chiragon Ki' has shed some light on another aspect of this complex issue.
He writes that Liaquat Ali Khan was very concerned about the issue of Pashtunistan being raised by Afghanistan. He decided that the best way to confuse Zahir Shah's government in Afghanistan was to create tension between Pashtuns and Dari speakers there. For this purpose, he chose Syed Akbar Khan, who was already a beneficiary of the government of Pakistan.
But when Akbar Khan failed to achieve the desired results, Liaquat Ali Khan halved his stipend without giving any reason. Akbar Khan repeatedly tried to meet the Prime Minister but failed each time. Akbar Khan wanted to ask, "What is wrong with me? I have sold my people and come to you."
In the end, he decided that he would avenge his disgrace by killing Liaquat Ali Khan. According to Sadiq Naseem, Akbar Khan used to practice shooting with a pistol in his house and many of his neighbors in Abbottabad testified that he used to abuse Liaquat Ali Khan all the time and said that his wife was naked. Are
When Liaquat Ali Khan died, Syed Akbar chased him but he probably did not get a chance there. Eventually this opportunity came in Pindi which Syed Akbar used.
And so the lamp of the life of the longest-serving Prime Minister in the history of Pakistan was extinguished.
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