Sardar Bahadur Khan
| Sardar Bahadur Khan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 July 1908 Rehana village, Haripur District, Pakistan |
| Died | 31 December 1975 Abbottabad |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Occupation | Politician, Government Official |
| Known for | Leader of the Opposition, Brother was a military dictator and later totalitarian president |
Sardar Bahadur Khan (Urdu: سردار بہادر خان) (born 8 July 1908– 31 December 1975) was a Pakistani politician. He was the 9th Chief Minister of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (then NWFP).
Personal life
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. He was the son of Risaldar Mir Dad Khan and the brother of former military dictator and president Ayub Khan, (General Muhammad Ayub Khan). He was born in the village of Rehana which is located in the Haripur District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. He belonged to the Tareen tribe of Hindko-speaking Pashtuns.
He received his LLB Degree from Aligarh Muslim University.
Politician
A member of the Muslim League in the province, he was elected to the NWFP Legislative Assembly from the Haripur Central constituency in a by-election in the Winter of 1939, after the subsequent demise of the previously incumbent Muslim League leader Khan Sahib Abdul Majid Khan Tarin.[1] He became Speaker of the Assembly in 1942.
He was re-elected in the 1946 election. Khan later served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth Relations and Communications in the government of Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan (Muslim League) from 17 February – 10 September 1949 when he was promoted to full Cabinet Minister.
He served as Minister for Communications in the cabinets of multiple Prime Ministers: Liaquat Ali Khan from 10 September 1949 – 19 October 1951, Khawaja Nazimuddin from 24 October 1951 – 17 April 1953 and Muhammad Ali Bogra from 17 April 1953 – 24 October 1954. He held the additional portfolio of Health and Works from 10 September 1949 – 20 September 1949.
Khan served as Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan from 8 November 1954 – 19 July 1955.
He was a proponent of the ""One Unit Scheme"" and was nominated to replace Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan as North West Frontier Province (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa) Chief Minister. He remained Chief Minister from 29 July 1955 – 14 October 1955 when the province merged into the new province of West Pakistan.
After the 1962 elections, he became Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Pakistan during the government of President Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan.
The Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University in Quetta is named in his memory.
References
- ↑ See notification to this effect in the Govt of NWFP Gazette Extraordinary Vol 32, No4, 1940, p. 11
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by | Chief Minister of North-West Frontier Province 1955 |
Succeeded by Mufti Mahmud |
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