Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbasi V

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Nawab Sir Sadiq Mohammad Khan V Abbasi (Urdu: جنرل نواب صادق محمد خان عباسی; 29 September 1904 – 24 May 1966) was the 14th and final Nawab (ruler) of the state of Bahawalpur from February 1907 to October 1955, and then as a titular figure until his death in 1966. He became the Nawab on the death of his father when he was only two years old. A Council of Regency, with Sir Rahim Bakhsh as its president, ruled on his behalf until 1924. The Nawab served as an officer with the British Indian Army, fighting in the Third Afghan War (1919) and commanding forces in the Middle East during the Second World War. By 1947, Bahawalpur state's institutions consisted of departments run by trained civil servants; there was a Ministerial Cabinet headed by a prime minister; the State Bank was the Bank of Bahawalpur, with branches outside the State, including in Karachi, and Lahore. There was a High Court, lower courts, as well as a trained police force and an army commanded by officers trained at the Royal...

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