Major-General Sahibzada Sayyid

Sayyid

Sayyid is an honorific title, it denotes males accepted as descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husain ibn Ali, sons of the prophet's daughter Fatima Zahra and his son-in-law Ali ibn Abi Talib.Daughters of sayyids are given the titles Sayyida,...

 Iskander Ali Mirza, CIE

Order of the Indian Empire

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, OBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (Urdu

Urdu

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: اسکندر مرزا) (December 14, 1898 – November 12, 1969) was the fourth and last Governor-General

Governor-General of Pakistan

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 of the Dominion of Pakistan

Dominion of Pakistan

The Dominion of Pakistan was an independent federal Commonwealth realm in South Asia that was established in 1947 on the partition of British India into two sovereign dominions . The Dominion of Pakistan, which included modern-day Pakistan and Bangladesh, was intended to be a homeland for the...

 (6 October 1955 to 23 March 1956), and the first President

President of Pakistan

The President of Pakistan is the head of state, as well as figurehead, of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Recently passed an XVIII Amendment , Pakistan has a parliamentary democratic system of government. According to the Constitution, the President is chosen by the Electoral College to serve a...

 of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Pakistan

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 (23 March 1956 to 27 October 1958).
Iskander Ali Mirza was born at Murshidabad

Murshidabad

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, Bengal

Bengal Presidency

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, on 14 December 1898, the eldest son of Sahibzada Sayyid Muhammad Fateh Ali Mirza (1874–1949) and his first wife, Dishad Begum (1879–1924).