Iskander Mirza

Sahibzada Sayyid Iskander Ali Mirza, CIE, OBE English IPA sknd i miz , was the first President of Pakistan, serving from 1956 to 1958. Prior to that, Mirza was the last GovernorGeneral of Pakistan from 1955 to 1956. A great grandson of Mir Jafar, Mirza was a career army officer, having reached the higher rank of majorgeneral in Pakistan Army.

Iskander Ali Mirza was the eldest child of Sahibzada Sayyid Muhammad Fateh Ali Mirza and his first wife, Dilshad Begum ne Tyabji . or Iskander Ali, but not Mirza alone. He was born onNovember 1899, in Murshidabad, Bengal Presidency of British Indian Empire. The Mirza family was an extremely influential and wealthy feudal family in Bengal, with close ties with British monarchy. His father, Fateh Ali Mirza belonged to the ruling house of Murshidabad, grandson of the first Nawab Mansur Ali Khan.

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