Manzur Qadir

{{short description|Pakistani jurist}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Manzur Qadir

| image = Justice_Manzoor_Qadir.jpg

| office = 6th Minister of Foreign Affairs

| president = Ayub Khan

| term_start = 29 October 1958

| term_end = 8 June 1962

| predecessor = Feroz Khan Noon

| successor = Muhammad Ali Bogra

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|11|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Lahore, British India

| death_date = {{death date and age|1974|10|12|1913|11|28|df=y}}

| death_place = London, England

| party = All-India Muslim League
(Before 1947)
Muslim League (1947–1958)

| native_name = {{nq|منظور قادر}}

}}

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Manzur Qadir ({{Langx|ur|{{nq|منظور قادر}}}}; 28 November 1913 – 12 October 1974){{Cite web|url=https://www.rulers.org/indexq.html|title = Index Q}} was a Pakistani jurist and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan in the military government of Ayub Khan from 1958 to 1962.[https://www.dawn.com/news/1043960 Without a foreign minister] Dawn (newspaper), Published 19 September 2013, Retrieved 31 October 2022[https://www.dawn.com/news/1096384 Obituary Khushwant Singh: 'The last Pakistani living on Indian soil'] Dawn (newspaper), Updated 30 March 2014, Retrieved 31 October 2022 Manzur Qadir served as the Chief Justice of Lahore High Court from 1962–1963.

He was the son of Sir Abdul Qadir. He married Asghari, a daughter of Fazli Husain, a political leader of Punjab, British India.J. Henry Korson. Contemporary Problems of Pakistan. (Brill Archive, 1974) p. 10. This was Asghari's second marriage. After his demise, his associate Ijaz Husain Batalvi annually organized Mazur Qadir memorial lectures attended by hundred of thousands lawyers and judges, this practice was continued by his associate Akhtar Aly Kureshy for Ijaz Husain Batalvi memorial.

In 1962, Qadir served as the chairman of the constitutional committee which eventually formulated Constitution of Pakistan of 1962[http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/01/letted.htm Samin Khan's statements about his own role in the formation of the 1962 constitution] {{cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/01/letted.htm |date=1 April 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101030183425/http://www.dawn.com/2007/04/01/letted.htm |archive-date=2010-10-30|newspaper=Dawn (newspaper)|title=Supreme Judicial Council history|access-date=31 October 2022}} which introduced a Presidential form of government.