Mir Laiq Ali

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Mir Laiq Ali

| image = MirLaiqAli.jpg

| caption = Mir Laiq Ali during Operation Polo in 1948

| office = Prime Minister of Hyderabad State

| term_start = 29 November 1947

| term_end = 19 September 1948

| predecessor = Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari

| successor = position abolished by Operation Polo

| birth_date = 1903

| death_date = {{death date and age |1971|10|24|1903|df=yes}}

}}

Mir Laiq Ali (1903 – 24 October 1971) was the last Prime Minister of Hyderabad State under the rule of the Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan.{{cite web|url=http://www.siasat.com/english/news/tragedy-hyderabad-resurfaces-after-50-years |title=Tragedy of Hyderabad resurfaces after 50 years |publisher=Siasat |date= |accessdate=30 January 2012}} His official title was "President of the Executive Council of the Nizam of Hyderabad".

Career

Mir Laiq Ali was an engineer and an industrialist. He served as the Prime Minister of Hyderabad State from November 1947 until Hyderabad was annexed in Operation Polo by India in September 1948 through a military operation which was called a "police action".{{cite book |author=B. Cohen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sZKHDAAAQBAJ |title=Kingship and Colonialism in India's Deccan: 1850–1948 |publisher=Springer |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-230-60344-8 |pages=159–161}} During his tenure he struggled to maintain Hyderabad's status as an independent country as a monarchy within the British Commonwealth.

After the defeat of the Hyderabadi defence forces and merger of Hyderabad into the Dominion of India, he was kept under house arrest at his home in Begumpet. In March 1950, he left forever for the Dominion of Pakistan. In Pakistan, he served in the government.{{clarify |date=July 2020 |reason=served as what?}}

He died in New York on 24 October 1971, while on an official assignment on behalf of Pakistan, and was laid to rest in the holy city of Medina, Saudi Arabia.

Bibliography

Tragedy of Hyderabad by Mir Laik Ali{{cite web|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/tragedy-of-hyderabad-resurfaces-after-50-years/184559-60-121.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017195831/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/tragedy-of-hyderabad-resurfaces-after-50-years/184559-60-121.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 October 2012 |title=Tragedy of Hyderabad resurfaces after 50 years - southindia - Hyderabad - ibnlive |publisher=Ibnlive.in.com |date= |accessdate=30 January 2012}}