Former caretaker Prime Minister Malik Meraj Khalid remembered on his death anniversary on Wednesday). Malik Meraj Khalid was born in 1916 in a small village near Lahore. He studied Law and began his practice in 1948. He was elected to the Provincial Assembly in 1965.
He joined the Pakistan People's Party soon after its inception in 1968 and was appointed President of Lahore PPP. He was re-elected to the National Assembly in 1970. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto included Meraj Khalid in his Cabinet as Minister for Food and Agriculture and Under-Developed Areas in December 1971.
In November 1972, he was appointed Chief of the Party's Parliamentary Affairs, and in 1975 he was given the portfolios of Social Welfare, Local Government and Rural Development. Later he was elected Speaker of the National Assembly. After the execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in April 1979, he was nominated member of the PPP's Central Committee. But he resigned in January 1988. He was again appointed as Speaker of the National Assembly in 1988.
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