title: Mir Laiq Ali
text: Mir Laiq Ali (died 24 October 1971) was the last Prime Minister of Hyderabad State under the rule of the Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan. His official title was "President of the Executive Council of the Nizam of Hyderabad".
  
  Career
  
  Mir Laiq Ali was an engineer and an industrialist. He served as the Prime Minister of Hyderabad State from November 1947 until the Operation Polo "police action" of September 1948. During his tenure he struggled to maintain Hyderabad's status as an independent country as a monarchy within the British Commonwealth.
  
  After the defeat of the Hyderabadi defence forces and merger of Hyderabad into the Dominion of India, he was kept under house arrest at his home in Begumpet. In March 1950, he left forever to the Dominion of Pakistan. In Pakistan, he served in the government.
  
  He died in New York on 24 October 1971, while on an official assignment on behalf of Pakistan, and was laid to rest in the holy city of Medina, Saudi Arabia.
  
  See also
  
   Operation Polo
   Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII
  
  Bibliography
  
   Tragedy of Hyderabad by Mir Laik Ali
  
  References
  
  External links
   How Hyderabad's Last Premiere fled
  
  20th-century Indian Muslims
  Muhajir people
  1971 deaths
  Prime Ministers of Hyderabad State
  1903 births
  Hyderabad State independence activists
  Indian emigrants to Pakistan