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Ibrahim Nasir served as the prime minister under the reign of Muhammad Fareed Didi from 12 December, 1957, until the former was sworn in as the first President of the Second Republic of Maldives. [6] He was also the Minister of Finance from December 1957 to November 1968. [8] Nasir favoured neutrality during his premiership and later presidency.
Ibrahim Nasir was sworn in as the first president of republic of the Maldives on 11 November 1968. He was widely credited with modernizing the long-isolated and nearly unknown Maldives and opening them up to the rest of the world.
Nov 26, 2008 · COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Ibrahim Nasir, who led the Maldives’ movement for independence from the British and became the nation’s first president, died Saturday in Singapore. He was 82.
Nov 26, 2008 · In the space of a decade, Ibrahim Nasir went from national hero to national embarrassment, a man who helped secure freedom for the Maldives only to be accused of corruption and effectively forced...
Jul 26, 2015 · “I didn’t think I’d be alive to see this day. I am 79, I am no longer what I was 50 years ago,” he said. Today, he laments the forgotten legacy of Prime Minister Ibrahim Nasir, and worries about the growing crime rate and political instability in the Maldives.
Jul 26, 2015 · Nasir demands independence as a further price of the Addu facilities. The Maldives joins the Colombo Plan. July 26, 1965 – Prime Minister Ibrahim Nasir signs independence agreement with the British. The population of the Maldives at the time was 97,743.
Nov 25, 2008 · Ibrahim Nasir, 82, who led the Maldives' independence movement from the British and became the island nation's first president, died Saturday. Mr. Nasir died at a Singapore hospital, and his body was flown back to the Maldives, Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaeed said Sunday.
Ibrahim Nasir steered the Indian Ocean island chain of the Maldives to independence from Britain in 1965 and became its first President three years later. For a decade he worked to guarantee future
Nov 23, 2008 · Ibrahim Nasir, credited with ushering in independence to the Maldives as prime minister and then serving as its first president has died, a former government spokesman confirmed.
He was Prime Minister of the Maldives under Sultan Muhammad Fareed Didi from December 1957 to 1968 and replaced him to become the first President of the Second Republic from 1968 to 1978. On 22 November 2008, at the age of 82, Nasir died at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
