Saad Akbar Babrak
Male, Deceased Person
– 1951
Who was Saad Akbar Babrak?
Saad Akbar Babrak, was, according to the government sources, an ultra-Pashtun nationalist, a hit-man who assassinated the 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaqat Ali Khan, in Rawalpindi Punjab Province, on October 16, 1951.
Akbar belonged to the same Zadran tribe as Pacha Khan Zadran.
On October 16, 1951, during a public meeting, Saad shot Liaqat twice in a park in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The assassin was fatally shot by police officers seconds later. Liaqat was rushed to a hospital where he died. Biographical details of Said Akbar and the reasons that why he killed Liaquat Ali Khan are not widely known. It is stated in the official file on Liaquat Ali Khan that Akbar was a "Afghan national and a professional assassin."
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