Assassin of Pakistan's first prime minister (d. 1951)
Said Akbar Babrak
سعید اکبر ببرک
Born
1921 or 1922
Khost, Southern Province, Emirate of Afghanistan
Died
16 October 1951 (aged 29)[1]
Rawalpindi, West Punjab, Dominion of Pakistan
Nationality
Afghan
Other names
Said Akbar Khan Babrakzai
Known for
Assassinating Pakistani prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan
Spouse
Musammat Malmal Bibi (c. 1940s)
Children
2
Parent
Babrak Khan (father)
Military career
Allegiance
Rebels of Mazrak Zadran
Battles/wars
Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947
Said Akbar Babrak (Pashto: سعید اکبر ببرک; 1921 or 1922 – 16 October 1951) was an Afghan militant who assassinated the first Pakistani prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan in the city of Rawalpindi on 16 October 1951. Khan, who had become the country's prime minister immediately after the partition of India in 1947, was addressing a crowd of more than 100,000 people at Rawalpindi's Company Bagh when Babrak approached him and shot him twice in the chest; Khan later succumbed to his injuries at a local hospital. As Babrak was shot dead by police officers at the scene shortly after the shooting, his motives for the assassination remain unclear.[2] An ethnic Pashtun, he had previously taken part in the Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947, fighting against the governments of both Afghanistan and British India.
^Muñoz, Heraldo (2014). Getting Away with Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-393-06291-5. The killer was a twenty-nine-year-old Afghan by the name of Said Akbar
^"A tale of 'political martyrs' in Pakistan". Pakistan Today. 15 August 2018.
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