Of singularly lazy disposition, he yet possessed considerable tact; he was in fact an Egyptian Lord Melbourne, whose policy was to leave everything alone.
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When urged by Sir Evelyn Baring (Lord Cromer) early in 1883 to abandon some of the more distant parts of the Sudan, he replied with characteristic light-heartedness: "Nous en causerons plus tard ; d'abord nous allons donner une bonne raclée à ce monsieur" (We'll talk about that later, first we're going to give this gentleman (i.e. the Mahdi) a good thrashing).
Muhammad | Muhammad Ali | Omar Sharif | Muhammad Yunus | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Muhammad Iqbal | Muhammad Ali of Egypt | Nawaz Sharif | Hussain Muhammad Ershad | Muhammad Shah | Sharif University of Technology | Pasha | Ali Pasha | Raja Muhammad Fayyaz Ahmad | Muhammad al-Mahdi | Emin Pasha | Shahbaz Sharif | pasha | Muhammad Ahmad | Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri | Suleiman Pasha | Nur Muhammad Taraki | Muhammad Saleh Kamboh | Muhammad al-Baqir | Idris Muhammad | Ibrahim Pasha | Atta Muhammad Nur | Sinan Pasha | Sharif | Shafi Muhammad Burfat |
Queen Nazli also was a maternal granddaughter of Major-General Muhammad Sharif Pasha, sometime Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, and a great-granddaughter of Suleiman Pasha, a French officer in Napoleon's army who converted to Islam and reorganized the Egyptian army.