governor predecessor successor death_date birth_place president death_place party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name alma_mater
frederick burrows a. ali k. fazlul huq chaudhry muhammad ali chaudhry muhammad khawaja nazimuddin ibrahim ismail chundrigar mumtaz daultana 5 december 1963 midnapore in west bengal , india -rrb- , bengal presidency , british india -lrb- now iskander mirza beirut , lebanon awami league prime of defence minister of bengal prime minister of pakistan minister 8 september 1892 3 july 1946 12 september 1956 12 september 1956 h s suhrawardy.jpg huseyn shaheed suhrawardy
 14 august 1947 17 october 1957 17 october 1957 huseyn حسین شہید سہروردی shaheed suhrawardy bn হোসেন শহীদ সোহ্ রাওয়ার্দী ur st. st catherine 's college , oxford inns of court school xavier of law 's college , calcutta university of calcutta
huseyn shaheed suhrawardy

huseyn shaheed suhrawardy -lrb- english ipa : ɦusæŋ ʃɑid sɦuɾɑwɑɾdɪə ; ; ; 8 september 18925 december 1963 -rrb- was a bengali politician and statesman in the first half of the 20th-century .
he served as the last prime minister of bengal during the british raj .
he was the fifth prime minister of pakistan .
born into a prominent bengali muslim family , suhrawardy was educated at oxford , and joined the swaraj party of chittaranjan das upon returning to india in 1921 .
he became the mayor of calcutta , the largest city in british india , during the 1930s , and later , as a member of the all-india muslim league , assumed the premiership of bengal in the mid-1940s .
along with sarat chandra bose , suhrawardy mooted the united bengal proposal , in an attempt to prevent the partition of bengal .
following the independence of pakistan in 1947 , he became a leading populist statesman of east pakistan , leaving the muslim league to join the newly formed centre-left awami league in 1952 .
along with a. k. fazlul huq and maulana bhashani , he led the pan-bengali united front alliance to a resounding victory in the 1954 east bengal elections and defeated the muslim league .
in 1956 , the awami league formed an alliance with the republican party to lead a coalition government in pakistan .
suhrawardy became prime minister and pledged to resolve the energy crises , address economic disparities between east and west pakistan , and strengthen the armed forces .
his initiatives included supply side economic policies , planning nuclear power and energy and reorganizing and reforming the pakistani military .
in foreign policy , he pioneered a strategic partnership with the united states .
faced with pressure from the bureaucracy and business community over his policies in aid distribution , nationalization and opposition to the one unit scheme , he was forced to resign on 10 october 1957 , under threat of dismissal by president iskandar mirza .
he was banned from public life by the military junta of general ayub khan .
suhrawardy died in 1963 in beirut , lebanon after suffering a massive heart attack .
