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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79S01011A000500060002-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Content Type: MISC

Approved For Relea a 2000/08/29 : CIA-RDP79SO1011Ap00500060002-7
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and respected by most of his'countryrnen. In addition, he had the ability
to elicit cooperation from his colleagues.
N.azjmuddin has been a political foe of H.S. Suhrawardy and. success-
fully defeated him in the election of 1947 for the Prime Ministership
of East Bengal, In this election it was reported that Nazimuddin
certainly had Jinnah's confidence and support? 9
Thus Naz..3muddinrs selection as Governor._Goneral, while tending to
strengthen the ties between East and West Pakistan, did deprive East
Bengal of its ablest political leader. 21
Khwaja N ,z