which the back room with another door, was occupied by a stranger who could, at any time, sell us out to a power inimical to Pakistan…". The wife of Feroz Khan Noon, Viqar-un-Nisa Noon, also played a large role in the accession of Gwadar to Pakistan. She visited London in 1956 to see the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and to lobby the British Parliament for their protectorate of Muscat and Oman to give custody of 'Gwadar Port' to Pakistan, and get approval from the House of Lords. Noon had not endorsed the presidential re-election of Mirza as the three-party coalition had been negotiating their own president to replace Mirza in 1958. At midnight on 7/8 October 1958, Mirza imposed martial law in a coup d'état against his own party's government, effectively dismissing his own appointed Prime Minister to usurp all political power into his own hands. Later and personal life, and death After the 1958 Pakistani coup d'état, Noon retired from national politics and became a political writer. He authored five books on the history of India and issues pertaining to law and politics in Pakistan. Wisdom From Fools (1940), short stories for children. Scented Dust (1941), a novel. India (1941) Kashmir (1957) From Memory (1966) Noon was married to Viqar-un-Nisa Noon, an Austrian, who was a prominent politician and a social worker by profession. He died on 9 December 1970 in his ancestral village of Nurpur Noon, Sargodha District, where he is buried. See also Politics of Pakistan Anglo-Indians India in World War II Gwadar References External links Chronicles Of Pakistan |- |- |- |- 1893 births 1970 deaths Feroz People from Sargodha People from Khushab District Prime Ministers of Pakistan Foreign Ministers of Pakistan Defence Ministers of Pakistan Governors of East Pakistan High Commissioners of India to the United Kingdom Permanent Representatives of India to the United Nations Leaders of the Pakistan Movement Pakistani MNAs 1947–1954 Pakistani barristers Pakistani diplomats Pakistan Muslim League politicians Chief Ministers of Punjab, Pakistan Pakistani MNAs 1955–1958 Punjab, Pakistan MLAs 1947–1949 Punjab, Pakistan MLAs 1951–1955 Leaders ousted by a coup Indian barristers Indian knights Punjabi people Pakistani Muslims Pakistani republicans Pakistani memoirists Pakistani autobiographers Pakistani political writers Historians of India Indian people of World War II Aitchison College alumni Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of