Nazir Ahmed (politician, died 1972)

[1] Nazir Ahmed was born in Fazilpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, to a family that had originally resided in Tehang, Jalandhar district, before moving to Faisalabad and eventually settling in Dera Ghazi Khan.

[2] He defeated Sir Mohammed Khan Leghari, the father of former president Farooq Leghari, in the 1970 Pakistani general elections for a National Assembly of Pakistan constituency representing Dera Ghazi Khan.

[2] On 8 June 1972, Nazir was assassinated in his clinic in Dera Ghazi Khan, Southern Punjab, while attending to his patients.

[3][4] The subsequent murder investigation implicated four police officials and an alleged hired assassin.

[1] The alleged motive for the murder was Ahmed's criticism of Bhutto's role in the 1971 loss of East Pakistan, which had become the independent nation of Bangladesh.