President of Pakistan from 1956 to 1958. Sahibzada Iskander Ali Mirza received his military training at Sandhurst, England. In the 1930s and early 1940s Mirza occupied important posts in the colonial administration of Orissa and the North West Frontier Province in British India. From 1948 to 1952 he served as Secretary to the Government. In 1954 he was appointed Governor of East Pakistan and from 1954 to 1955 he was Minister for Interior. He was the last Governor-General, September 1955 to March 1956, and the first President of Pakistan, from March 1956 to 24 October 1958 as President.