Pakistan's First Elected President's Memoirs from Exile
For various reasons Iskander Mirza’s memoirs couldn’t make it in the book form and now after more than half a century is being published in its totality & lays open the facts for the people of Pakistan, historians and academics to judge the man who was a trusted lieutenant of Quaid e Azam and while in Indian Political Service secretly worked with Jinnah (who fully recognized the invaluable potential in the young Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar) towards the most challenging task of achieving Pakistan from the British.
In all fairness General Ayub may not have been behind it all but the sycophants were in a stampede outdoing each other in casting aspersions on Iskander Mirza’s financial propriety, his integrity and character. Such was the national atmosphere that structured average Pakistani’s mindset for their first President and will be a miracle if this book if not change, can at least initiate a debate on historical distortions, disinformation and withholding of important documented accounts that may not have gone down well with sitting government of the time, to suit a certain ideology or more dangerously the planting of fake information to serve ulterior agendas.
Syed Khawar Mehdi is a writer, citizen activist, accidental historian and former physician scientist with distinguished academic and corporate backgrounds, founder of Commonwealth Karachi, an independent Think Tank. Khawar is well published with interest in governance, historical research & urban activism with specific relevance to Karachi’s role as economic keystone to the federation.
Khawar in his quest to track Iskander Mirza’s fateful downfall from the topmost office in Pakistan embarked on a journey searching for the truth; discovers hitherto unknown facts far from the figments of the Fakir’s Fairy Tale spun by General Ayub Khan, his cronies in media, intelligentsia and the successive establishments. So began an enlightening journey to discovery of unpublished information with unique access to classified documents from various international archives. Iskander Mirza was not only deposed but demonized by the State to sanctify the coup and glorify General Ayub Khan.
Syed Khawar Mehdi is a writer, citizen activist, accidental historian and former physician scientist with distinguished academic and corporate backgrounds, founder of Commonwealth Karachi, an independent Think Tank. Khawar is well published with interest in governance, historical research & urban activism with specific relevance to Karachi’s role as economic keystone to the federation.
Khawar in his quest to track Iskander Mirza’s fateful downfall from the topmost office in Pakistan embarked on a journey searching for the truth; discovers hitherto unknown facts far from the figments of the Fakir’s Fairy Tale spun by General Ayub Khan, his cronies in media, intelligentsia and the successive establishments. So began an enlightening journey to discovery of unpublished information with unique access to classified documents from various international archives. Iskander Mirza was not only deposed but demonized by the State to sanctify the coup and glorify General Ayub Khan.
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