Mir Shaukat Ali khan

Reign and later life Shaukat Ali Khan succeeded his grandfather as Tham, or king, of Nagar in 1940. He was described a few years after his accession as "small, sharp-featured, and of a very fair complexion", and someone with a "keen sense of humour". On 18 November 1947 the rulers of both states signed Instruments of Accession to accede to Pakistan. They did so one week after the decision by Hari Singh, Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir, to accede to India, at a time of disturbances, which had led to Indian Army troops moving into Kashmir.

In 1968 Syed Yahya Shah, a politician of the Nagar valley, led a civil rights movement demanding more democracy from Shaukat, who was less popular than some other princes. In 1971, he was shaken by an uprising against his rule. On 25 September 1974, not long after the Pakistan People's Party under Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had come to power, the new government forced Shaukat to abdicate his throne, and both Nagar and Hunza were merged into the Northern Areas, together with the other princely states of Gilgit-Baltistan, although the Mir of Nagar was left with a purely ceremonial role.

Death Shaukat Ali Khan died on 22 May 2003 of kidney failure at Islamabad, at the age 86. He was survived by three sons, two daughters and a widow. His eldest son, Barkat Ali Khan, was then a senior official of the Pakistan Foreign Service

Honours Hilal Quaid-I-Azam Hilal-i-Pakistan (Crescent of Pakistan) awarded by the President of Pakistan