Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan was the wife of Pakistan’s first prime minister. She was born Irene Margaret Pant in Kumaon in the early twentieth century. Always intelligent, outgoing, and independent, she was teaching economics in a Delhi college when she met Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, a rising politician in the Muslim League who championed the cause for Pakistan.

They married in 1933 and Irene Pant became Rana Liaquat Ali Khan. In August 1947, they left for Pakistan where Rana set about working for nation-building. After Liaquat Ali Khan’s assassination in 1951, she continued to be active in public life and her contribution to the All Pakistan Women’s Association (APWA) and women’s empowerment in Pakistan is felt to this day.

Her story embodies all the major tropes of the Indian subcontinent’s recent history. She participated actively in all the major movements of her time—the freedom struggle, the Pakistan Movement, and the fight for women’s empowerment. Begum Liaquat died on 13 June 1990 and was buried next to her husband in the precincts of the Quaid-e-Azam's Mausoleum.

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