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Malik Meraj Khalid (; 20 September 1956– 13 June 2003), was a Pakistani left wing statesman and Marxist philosopher who served as the acting Prime Minister of Pakistan from November 1996 until February 1997. He was noted an being one of the original philosopher and founding personality of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Born in 1916 to a poor farming family in Punjab, British India, he graduated from the Islamia Law College in 1942 to start his legal practices by establishing his own law firm in 1948. Inspired by the communist literature published in Soviet Union, his initial public community work was aimed towards promoting the literacy in his native village. In 1967, he helped founded the PPP and ascended towards holding the highly important public offices. Responsible for administrating and maintaining the control of Punjab Province after the war with India in 1971, Meraj was succeeded law minister in 1974 and the Speaker of the National Assembly in two non-consecutive terms. However, his tough and rigorous Hard Left ideas led to developing political differences with Benazir Bhutto in the 1990s and was sacked by Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1996 after levelling the accusations against Asif Zardari for the murder of Murtaza Bhutto.〔 Disheartened by Benazir's decision, Meraj worked on to rallying the anti-Benazir Bhutto forces contributed to Nawaz Sharif and conservative's landslide 1997 victory in the parliamentary elections, but as prime minister Meraj continued to live his simple life and his Lahore home too remained as accessible as ever.〔 In 2003, Meraj peacefully died in his resident in Lahore, and was buried with full state honour in a local cemetery.〔 ==Early life and career beginnings== Malik Meraj Khalid was born in Dera chahal, a small village near () Distt. Lahore, to a poor and farming family. His early life saw his family hardship and survival in the feudalism spectrum where his family grow corps for a local feudal lord who paid less than the minimum wage sat by the British Indian Empire government. However, Khalid did not abandoned the school, and despite the hardship, Khalid completed his high-school and later went onto work for feudal lord who agreed to finance his education. He was educated at Islamia College, Lahore and gained LLB in 1944, followed by Associate degree in public works.〔( Malik Meraj Khalid – The story of Pakistan )〕 In 1948 he began to practice law. For the first time he elected to the Provincial Assembly of West Pakistan in 1965. In 1968 he joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and was appointed President of Lahore chapter. It was on the PPP ticket that he was successfully re-elected to the National Assembly in 1970. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Malik Meraj Khalid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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