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Iskander Mirza Quotes

1892–1969

Iskander Mirza (13 November 189913 November 1969) was a Bengali politician, statesman and military general who served as the Dominion of Pakistan's fourth and last governor-general of Pakistan from 1955 to 1956, and then as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan's first president from 1956 to 1958.

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Democracy without education is hypocrisy without limitation.

The elections were a peculiar type of elections which I have not understood from that day to this. I was elected by a Punjabi group to represent Sialkot, a place I had never been to.

My cardinal error was that, I trusted persons whom I knew, and helped, for twenty years; I regarded them as reliable and trustworthy friends.

However, it must be plainly stated that while we are anxious to maintain friendly relations with India we must and shall defend our territory. We must maintain our territorial integrity by every means within our power.

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