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Pak. Prime Minister Dismissed

Mr. Ghulam Mohammed, Governor-General of Pakistan, ordered on the 17th, Prime Minister, Mr. Khwaja Nazimuddin relieved from office saying the latter had proved to be utterly incapable of grappling with the tasks facing the country. Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Mohammed Ali, who had come on a short visit to Karachi, was asked straightaway to head the Cabinet in place of Mr. Nazimuddin. Nazimuddin (58) had been Prime Minister since the assassination of Mr. Liaqat Ali Khan in October 1951.

Earlier he succeeded Mr. Jinnah to the post of Governor-General. The deposed Prime Minister was a scion of a princely family of Dacca in East Bengal, and had been educated at the Aligarh University, and Trinity College in Cambridge, England.

In what appeared a related development, the Karachi English newspaper The Sind Observer ceased to appear from the 17th. Editor Pir Ali Mohammed Rashid said that the paper had had to face insuperable difficulties. Before Partition, it had been a most influential newspaper, ably edited by Mr. K. Punniah. A week prior to this paper's ceasing publication, the Civil and Military Gazette of Karachi had also shut up shop. Thus Karachi was left with only one English newspaper, The Dawn.

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