Khawaja Nazimuddin
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Hajji
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 Sir
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 Khawaja Nazimuddin
, KCIE
Order of the Indian Empire
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 (Bengali
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: খাজা নাজিমুদ্দীন Khaja Nazimuddin, Urdu
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: خواجہ ناظم الدین) (July 19, 1894 - October 22, 1964), was the second Governor-General of Pakistan
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, and later the second Prime Minister of Pakistan
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 as well.
He was born in Dacca, Bengal
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 (now Dhaka
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, Bangladesh
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) into the family of the Nawabs of Dhaka
Dhaka Nawab family
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.. He received his education from Dunstable Grammar School
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 in England, then Aligarh Muslim University
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, and later Trinity Hall
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, Cambridge
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, until the mid-1930s.
 
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