The Rawalpindi conspiracy was an attempted coup to overthrow Liaquat Ali Khan, the first prime minister of Pakistan, in March 1951.

First, general discontent of Pakistani army officers with the performance of the Liaquat Ali Khan government, which they thought of as corrupt and incompetent.

Army officers thought the government's acceptance of UN mediation and ceasefire was weak and squandered an opportunity to capture the whole of Kashmir.

[2] The main person responsible for planning the coup was Maj. Gen. Akbar Khan, the chief of general staff of the Pakistani army.

The army commander-in-chief, Gen. Muhammad Ayub Khan and the defence secretary Maj. Gen. Iskander Mirza had both remained loyal to the government.

[3] Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated later in 1951, in October, in an unrelated[citation needed] attack by an Afghan national in Rawalpindi.

[5] Faiz continued to publish many works of poetry, and was appointed to the National Council for Arts by the Bhutto government.