Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar

Title & tenure

6th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1957)

In office: 1957 – 1957

Predecessor:

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy

Successor:

Feroz Khan Noon

Biography

Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar was a veteran Muslim League leader and lawyer from Gujarat who had held several ministerial posts since independence, and briefly became Prime Minister in late 1957 at the head of an unstable multi-party coalition during one of Pakistan's most volatile political periods.

Achievements

• Held multiple ministerial portfolios, including Law, Commerce and Industries, across several governments in Pakistan's first decade

Key events

• Formed government in October 1957 but could not sustain a stable coalition amid rapidly shifting party alliances
• Resigned after just over two months in office, one of the shortest premierships in Pakistan's history

Legacy

Chundrigar's brief, two-month tenure is often cited as emblematic of the extreme political instability of Pakistan's pre-martial-law parliamentary era, which ended less than a year later with Ayub Khan's 1958 coup.

How it ended

Resigned in December 1957 after losing coalition support; died in 1960.