Liaquat Ali Khan championed the rights of Muslims and was a prominent member of the Muslim League. He was instrumental in bringing about negotiations between the Congress and the League in 1944, which resulted in the Liaquat-Desai Pact. He was the Finance Minister in the Interim Central Government in 1946-1947. After partition he became the first Prime Minister of Pakistan. He was assassinated in a public meeting at Rawalpindi in October 1951 by an unknown person.