Iskandar Ali Mirza
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Iskandar Ali Mirza was a Pakistani politician, statesman and military general who served as the Dominion of Pakistan's fourth governor-general of Pakistan from 1955 to 1956, and then as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan's first president from 1956 to 1958.
Mirza in 1956
Iskander Mirza as 2nd-Lt in the British Indian Army, ca.1920.
Mirza's state funeral in the Sepahsalar Mosque, Tehran
Dominion of Pakistan
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The Dominion of Pakistan, officially Pakistan, was an independent federal dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations, existing between 14 August 1947 and 23 March 1956, created by the passing of the Indian Independence Act 1947 by the British parliament, which also created an independent Dominion of India.
The Prime minister of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Bogra (second from left) with the Queen of Pakistan and other Commonwealth leaders, 1955
Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan meeting President Harry Truman
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