Iskander Mirza

Out of respect the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi gave him a state funeral in Tehran Iran. President Mirza an Establishment-backed president widely lacked the parliamentary spirit distrusting the civilians to ensure the integrity and sovereignty of country. On 7 October Mizra appeared on national radio declaring that he was introducing a new constitution; "more suited to the genius of the Pakistan nation" on November 1958 as he believed democracy was unsuited to Pakistan "with its 15% literacy rate".

Major-General Sahibzada Sayyid Iskander Ali Mirza CIE OBE English IPA: ɪskɑndæɾ əɪiː mi(ə)ɹzə (Urdu: اسکندر مرزا; Bengali: ইস্কান্দার মীর্জা; 13 November 1898 – 12 November 1969) was the first President of Pakistan serving from 1956 until being forced out from the presidency in 1958. Starting his career in the government Mirza was employed by Prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan in the Ministry of Defence being appointed as the first Defence Secretary (one of an apex bureaucratic post) overseeing the Indo-Pakistan war of 1947 and the Balochistan conflict in 1948. After only twenty days of martial law Mirza was forced out of the presidency by his Chief Martial Law Administrator Field Marshal Ayub Khan.