Nurul Amin was a prominent Pakistani leader, and a jurist who served as the eighth prime minister of Pakistan and as the first and only vice president of Pakistan.
36 Facts About Nurul Amin
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Nurul Amin is noted as being the last Bengali leader of Pakistan.
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Still being a Bengali, Amin was against the Bengali language movement in 1952.
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Nurul Amin was the first and only Vice President of Pakistan from 1970 till 1972, leading Pakistan in the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
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Nurl Nurul Amin was born on 15 July 1893 in Shahbazpur, Sarail located in the Tippera District of the Bengal Presidency.
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Nurul Amin belonged to a Bengali Muslim family from the village of Bahadurpur in Nandail, Mymensingh District.
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In 1920, Nurul Amin began at the University of Calcutta; he gained an LLB in Law and Justice in 1924, and passed the Bar exam the same year.
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Nurul Amin started his career in law after joining the Mymensingh Judge Court Bar.
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In 1929, Nurul Amin was appointed as a member of Mymensingh Local Board, and later became a member of Mymensingh District Board in 1930.
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In 1937, Nurul Amin was appointed as the Chairman of Mymensingh District Board, an assignment he continued until 1945.
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Nurul Amin became an early member of the All-India Muslim League led by Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
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In 1945, Nurul Amin participated in the Indian general elections, securing a landslide victory.
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Nurul Amin became a Member, and the following year was elected as the Speaker General of the Bengal Legislative Assembly.
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Nurul Amin became a trusted lieutenant of Mohammad Ali Jinnah in East Bengal, fighting for the rights of Bengali Muslims in British India.
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Nurul Amin took an active part in the Pakistan Movement, organising Bengali Muslims, while he continued to strengthen the Muslim League in Bengal.
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Nurul Amin promised the Bengali nation he would build a democratic country.
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Nurul Amin worked for the Muslim League in East Bengal, while continuing his relief programme for the population.
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Nurul Amin was elected as a member of the Pakistan National Assembly from 1947 until 1954.
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Nurul Amin assumed the office of Chief Minister in a few weeks.
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Historians have noted that Nurul Amin's government was not strong enough to administer the provincial state; it was completely under the control of the central government of Nazimuddin.
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Nurul Amin's government did not enjoy enough power, and lacked vision, imagination, and initiatives.
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Nurul Amin failed to counter the Communist Party's influence in the region, which widely took the credit for turning the language movement in 1952 into large unified mass protest.
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Public dissatisfaction with Nurul Amin had grown since October 1951, when Nazimuddin became Prime Minister.
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Nurul Amin expelled dissidents from within the ranks of the Muslim League, but doing so simply strengthened opposition to the party.
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Nurul Amin served as the president of the East Pakistan Muslim League, and worked to improve its standing.
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Nurul Amin ran as a candidate in the 1965 presidential elections, in East Pakistan, winning the majority vote in the Parliament of Pakistan.
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Two days later, Nurul Amin was appointed as Vice President of Pakistan, the only person to have held this post.
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Nurul Amin was sworn into the post again on 23 April 1972 after the interim constitution came into effect and martial law was lifted.
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Nurul Amin continued to hold the post until the office was abolished with the entry into force of the new constitution on 14 August 1973.
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Mr Nurul Amin is remembered true selfless figure, a national hero, regarded by Pakistanis to be a patriot for supporting the unity of his country when Awami Leaguers collaborated with arch enemy India and sided with Indian Army in the break up of the world's largest Muslim nation, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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Nurul Amin stayed in West Pakistan, while his home region achieved independence as the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
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Nurul Amin died of cardiac arrest aged 81 in Rawalpindi on 2 October 1974 and was given a public state funeral by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
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Nurul Amin was buried in Jinnah Mausoleum, next to Jinnah.
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Nurul Amin's tomb was specially designed, made of Italian white marble, with golden letters for his name and contributions.
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Nurul Amin was a trusted lieutenant of Quaid-i-Azam and a valiant fighter for the Pakistan Movement, and for Pakistan.
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Nurul Amin proved himself to be a crusader of solidarity and earned for himself the highest pedestal by dint of his efforts, intelligence, and his struggle.