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Khwaja Nazimuddin (1894-1964)
 
Governor-General of Pakistan from 1948 to 1951. Khwaja Nazimuddin hailed from Dhaka. He graduated from the Aligarh Muslim University and later received a degree from Cambridge. From 1929 to 1934 he was Minister of Education of Bengal and the Minister for the Interior of Bengal form 1937 to 1941. He was a member of All India Muslim League. He served as Chief Minster of East Pakistan from 1947 to 1948, when he succeeded M.A. Jinnah as Governor-General of Pakistan. He held this office until September 1951, when he became Prime Minister of Pakistan.