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Lahore: 55th death anniversary of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Sir Feroz Khan Noon is being observed on Tuesday. He was born in 1893 in Lahore.
According to Radio Pakistan, Feroz Khan Noon practiced law at Lahore High Court from 1917 to 1926 and then joined politics. He was appointed as Minister of Health and Education in the then Punjab cabinet and served as High Commissioner for India in London from 1936 to 1941. In October 1947, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah sent Noon as his special envoy to some countries of the Muslim world.
Sir Feroz Khan Noon served as the seventh Prime Minister of Pakistan from 16th December 1957 to 7th October 1958. He died on this day in 1970 in his ancestral village, Nurpur Noon near Bhalwal, Sargodha District.