Iskander Mirza – Honour-Bound to Pakistan in Duty, Destiny and Death: Pakistan's First Elected President's Memoirs from Exile

Iskander Mirza’s Memoirs could not be published in book form earlier for various reasons and have been published now in their totality after over half a century. The Memoirs lay open the facts for academics, historians and, indeed, the people of Pakistan to judge the man who was a trusted lieutenant of Quaid-e-Azam. While in Indian Political Service, Iskander Mirza worked secretly with Jinnah (who recognized the invaluable potential in the young deputy commissioner of Peshawar) on the most challenging task of achieving Pakistan from the British. In all fairness, General Ayub Khan might not have been entirely behind what happened but sycophants were busy outdoing each other in casting aspersions on Iskander Mirza’s financial propriety, integrity and character. An atmosphere was created that structured the average Pakistani’s mindset of their first President negatively. It is hoped that this book can help change it or at least initiate a debate on the historical distortions, disinformation and withholding of important documented accounts that may not have gone down well with the government of the time.

About the Author

Syed Khawar Mehdi is a writer, citizen activist, accidental historian and former physician scientist with distinguished academic and corporate backgrounds and founder of Commonwealth Karachi, an independent Think Tank. Khawar is well published with interest in governance, historical research and urban activism with specific relevance to Karachi’s role as economic keystone to the federation. In his quest to track Iskander Mirza’s fateful downfall from the topmost office in Pakistan, Khawar embarked on a journey searching for the truth; discovered hitherto unknown facts far from the figments of the Fakir’s Fairy Tale spun by General Ayub Khan, his cronies in the media, intelligentsia and the successive establishments. So began an enlightening journey leading to the discovery of unpublished information with unique access to classified documents from various international archives.

Binding: Paperback · Pages: 332 · Published: 2023 · Publisher: Lightstone Publishers

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