Nurul Amin

Nurul Amin
নুরুল আমিন نور الامین
8th Prime Minister of Pakistan
In office 7 December 1971 – 20 December 1971
President	Yahya Khan
Deputy	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Preceded by	Feroz Khan Noon Ayub Khan (acting)
Succeeded by	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Acting President of Pakistan
In office 20 January 1972 – 28 January 1972
President	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Preceded by	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Succeeded by	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
In office 1 April 1972 – 21 April 1972
President	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Preceded by	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Succeeded by	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Vice President of Pakistan
In office 20 December 1971 – 14 August 1973
President	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Preceded by	Post created
Succeeded by	Post abolished
Leader of the Opposition
In office 9 July 1967 – 7 December 1970
Preceded by	Fatima Jinnah
Succeeded by	Khan Abdul Wali Khan
Chief Minister of East Pakistan
In office 14 September 1948 – 3 April 1954
Governor	Feroz Khan Noon Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman
Preceded by	Khawaja Nazimuddin
Succeeded by	Fazlul Huq
Personal details
Born	(1893-07-15)15 July 1893 Shahbazpur, Bengal, British India (now in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh)
Died	2 October 1974(1974-10-02) (aged 81) Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
Resting place	Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistani
Political party	Pakistan Muslim League (since 1962)
Other political affiliations	Muslim League (1947–1958)
Relatives	Razia Khan (daughter-in-law) Aasha Mehreen Amin (granddaughter)
Alma mater	Ananda Mohan College University of Calcutta

Nurul Amin^[a] (15 July 1893 – 2 October 1974) was a Pakistani politician and jurist who served as the eighth prime minister of Pakistan from 7 December to 20 December 1971. His term of only 13 days as prime minister was the shortest served in Pakistani parliamentary history. He was also the only vice president of Pakistan.

Starting his political career in 1948 as Chief Minister of East Bengal, he headed the Ministry of Supply. In spite of being a Bengali, Amin was against the Bengali language movement in 1952. After participating in the 1970 Pakistani general election, He was appointed as the Prime Minister of Pakistan. He was the first and only Vice President of Pakistan from 1970 to 1972, leading Pakistan in the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
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