Miangul Aurangzeb was the last Wali Ahad of the former Swat State, the son of the last Wali of Swat, Miangul Jahan Zeb, and the son-in-law of the former president of Pakistan, Muhammad Ayub Khan.
16 Facts About Miangul Aurangzeb
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Miangul Aurangzeb served in the National Assembly of Pakistan and as governor of Balochistan and subsequently as governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
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Miangul Aurangzeb was born on 28 May 1928 in Saidu Sharif in the house of Miangul Jahan Zeb.
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Miangul Aurangzeb received his initial schooling at Welham Boys' School and The Doon School in Dehradun.
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Miangul Aurangzeb was commissioned into the Guides Cavalry of the Pakistan Armoured Corps.
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Miangul Aurangzeb's achievements led to his selection as ADC to the Army Commander-in-Chief General Ayub Khan.
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Miangul Aurangzeb represented Swat State in the West Pakistan Assembly from 1956 to May 1958, when he was nominated to the National Assembly of Pakistan.
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Miangul Aurangzeb was nominated to the National Assembly in 1962, and renominated in 1965.
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Miangul Aurangzeb was elected on a Muslim League platform, defeating a strong candidate of the National Awami Party.
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Miangul Aurangzeb was re-elected in the March 1977 general elections as a Pakistan National Alliance candidate despite suspected widespread vote-rigging by the rival Pakistan Peoples Party candidate.
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In March 1985 general elections were held on a non-party basis, and Miangul Aurangzeb was again elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan.
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Miangul Aurangzeb, contesting on the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad platform, was defeated by his cousin and son-in-law Shahzada Aman i Room, the candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
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Again in October 1990, Miangul Aurangzeb, contesting as an independent candidate, faced defeat, this time at the hands of his former allies, the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad.
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Miangul Aurangzeb did not contest the 2002 general elections and retired from electoral politics, passing the torch to the next generation of his family.
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Miangul Aurangzeb remained active until his death in the leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz.
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Miangul Aurangzeb is buried in his ancestral graveyard at Aqba, Saidu Sharif.