Biography of malik meraj khalid

Pakistani politician (1916–2003)

Malik Meraj Khalid (Urdu: ملک معراج خالد; 1 February 1916 – 13 June 2003), was a Pakistani advocate, left wing politician and Marxist philosopher who served as the Caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from November 1996 until February 1997.^[1] He was noted as being one of the original philosophers and founders of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).^[2]

Born in 1916 to a poor farming family in Punjab, British India, he graduated in law from the Islamia College (Lahore) in 1942, starting his legal practice by establishing his own law firm in 1948.

Inspired by the communist literature published in the Soviet Union, his initial public community work was aimed towards promoting literacy in his native village. In 1967, he was one of the founders of the PPP and ascended towards holding the highly important public offices.

Responsible for administrating and maintaining the control of the Punjab Province after the wa