Along with his position as Sultan, he is prime minister, defense minister, finance minister, foreign affairs minister and chair of the central bank.

Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood's father, Chaudhry Sharif Khan, was a local village leader ( Numberdar ) and put all his income to educate his eldest son who stood first in his High school and stand in 3rd position in the Punjab Matric Board.

The Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said al Said, criticized Gamal Abdel Nasser and his pan-Arab ideology in private discussions with American officials, which were released by Wikileaks, claiming Nasser deliberately used inflammatory speeches and rhetoric to make his people stupid, and accused Nasser of having " set the region back " and holding a position of " anti-everything.

In return, the Sultan acknowledged the Habsburg Emperor as the official protector of all Ottoman Christian subjects ( see Ottoman millet ), a position also claimed by Russia.

Al-Muqri resigned the post two years later, but was reappointed to it by Sultan Yusef, and was kept in the position by his successor, Sultan Muhammad, when he ascended the throne in 1927.

President Karmal gives up the post of prime minister ; he is succeeded in that position on June 11 by Sultan Ali Keshtmand, another trusted member of the Parcham faction of the PDPA.

In 1926, Ibn Saud added the title King of Hejaz to his position of Sultan of Nejd.

The House of Zogu is a European dynasty founded by Zogu Pasha who migrated to Mati, Albania in the late 15th century and was then appointed Governor of Mati by the Ottoman Sultan, with the position of Governor then becoming hereditary among the Zogu clan.

The Sultan of Johor confirmed his position by granting the title Yang di-Pertuan Besar Negeri Sembilan ( He Who is Highest Lord of the Nine States ) in 1773.

He became Grand Drogoman of The Fleet, and in 1739 he negotiated an agreement with the Sultan whereby the key position of Grand Drogoman of the Sublime Porte would remain within the fold-i. e.

It lasted from 1803 to 1807 with the Albanian Ali taking control of Egypt in 1805, when the Ottoman Sultan acknowledged his position.

Sultan Suleiman had much confidence in Sokollu Mehmed Paşa and promoted him to this position.

In the meantime Sultan Khan, who was our real entrée to his presence, was treated as a servant by the maharajah ( which in fact he was according to Indian law ), and we found ourselves in the peculiar position of being waited on at table by a chess grand master.

He has held this position of Imam, under the title of Aga Khan IV, since July 11, 1957, when, at the age of 20, he succeeded his grandfather, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III.

This position was considerably weakened by the fact that to prevent a fetva or coup the Sultan would often sacrifice his Grand Vizier.

It was ruled by the Valide Sultan ( also known as the Baş Kadın, or " Chief Lady "), mother of the reigning sultan, who held supreme power over the Harem and thus a powerful position in the court.

On occasion, the Valide Sultan would become involved in state politics and through her influence could diminish the power and position of the sultan.

One of these earliest incidents was the loss of his status as Tunku Mahkota in 1961 — a position which his father, Sultan Ismail, appointed to him two years earlier, citing reasons of alleged misbehaviour after confidential reports accusing him of incarcerating a policeman reached the Sultan.

However, it was Johor which became the first state to create the Menteri Besar position as subject to Undang-undang Tubuh Negeri Johor ( Johor State Constitution ) enforced by Sultan Abu Bakar which made Johor the first Malay state to adopt the constitutional monarchy system.

Baibars al-Jashnakir became a Sultan after the position was imposed on him by Emir Sayf al-Din Salar and the Burji Mamluks.

However, Usman did not dismiss the Sultan from office, but instead gave made him a ceremonial position while retaining the real power for himself.

When the British took over the territory the political authority of the Caliphate was abolished and put under the Northern Nigeria Protectorate ; however, the title of Sultan was retained and remains an important religious position for Muslims in the region to the current day.

Wildly bucking horses would make the position difficult to defend against charging warriors.

Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

Prevot had said that the searchlights would be bounced off the clouds at 2230 hours, `` which gives us time to get settled in position ''.

It was only natural that Fletcher would strive for a position in which he could make the decisions.

The Trustees of the Foundation appointed Dr. Ray to that position with the stated expectation that he would succeed the present Secretary General upon the latter's eventual retirement.

Such a depreciation policy would also, we believe, prove a very important factor in strengthening the competitive position of the U. S. textile and other industries, thus helping to strengthen the position of the dollar in foreign exchange.

We expected, in short, that most of the world would make itself over in our image and that it would be relatively simple, from such a position, to deal with the localized aberrations of the Soviet Union ''.

Certainly a further reduction in the discount rate would be a strong possibility, as well as an easier reserve position for the banking system.

However, the monetary authorities will continue to be required to pay attention to the consequences of their actions with respect to our international balance of payments position and the outflow of gold, as well as with regard to avoiding the creation of excessive liquidity in the economy, which would delay the effectiveness of monetary policy measures in the next expansion phase of the business cycle.

A decision to refer workers to jobs vacant because of a strike would have to be applied equally to nonagricultural situations, and might in effect place the public employment services in the position of acting as strikebreakers.

Suppose, he says, that the tables were turned, and we were in the Soviets' position: `` There would be more than 2,000 modern Soviet fighters, all better than ours, stationed at 250 bases in Mexico and the Caribbean.

The task of a congregation would be defined, according to economic integration, as the work of co-opting individuals and families of similar social and economic position to replenish the nuclear core of the congregation.

Acting Administrator Andrew F. Juras said that because of Field's unique position and knowledge in the program, the agency now would be seriously handicapped if he was not continued for a period.

Well-wishers around the world hoped that the Congo would quickly assume a respectable position in the society of nations.

On the contrary, it would only weaken his position if he fumed, while she stayed calm and adamant.

The @ symbol was not used in continental Europe and the committee expected it would be replaced by an accented À in the French variation, so the @ was placed in position 40 < sub > hex </ sub > next to the letter A.

Johnston, who had little choice in allowing Floyd and Pillow to take charge at Fort Donelson on the basis of seniority after he ordered them to add their forces to the garrison, took the blame and suffered calls for his removal because a full explanation to the press and public would have exposed the weakness of the Confederate position.

In addition, the asteroids rotated, a new enemy dubbed a killer satellite was added to the game, which would, when shot, break apart into three smaller ships that homed on the player's position.

Kolton announced in July 1977 that he would be leaving his position at the American Exchange in November of that year.

Stigand's position as archbishop was canonically suspect, and as earl Harold had not allowed Stigand to consecrate one of the earl's churches, it is unlikely that Harold would have allowed Stigand to perform the much more important royal coronation.

They pointed out that astrologers have only a small knowledge of astronomy and that they often do not take into account basic features such as the precession of the equinoxes which would change the position of the sun with time ; they commented on the example of Elizabeth Teissier who claimed that " the sun ends up in the same place in the sky on the same date each year " as the basis for claims that two people with the same birthday but a number of years apart should be under the same planetary influence.

In part this position was also necessary, as otherwise there would have been no means to elicit or initiate reform of the church.