Sardar Bahadur Khan

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Sardar Bahadur Khan
Khwaja Nizamuddin
Mohammad Ali Bogra
Preceded byAbdur Rab Nishtar
Succeeded byKhan Abdul Jabbar Khan
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations
In office
17 February 1949 – 10 September 1949
Prime MinisterLiaquat Ali Khan
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
8 June 1962 – 7 June 1965
ConstituencyNW-12 (Hazara- I)
Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
In office
10 August 1947 – 24 October 1954
ConstituencyHazara District
Personal details
Born8 July 1908
Rehana village,
Pakistani
Alma materAligarh Muslim University (LLB)
OccupationPolitician

Khan Sardar Bahadur Khan (

Urdu: سردار بہادر خان) (8 July 1908 – 31 December 1975) was a Pakistani politician. He was the 9th Chief Minister of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (then called Northwest Frontier Province).[1]

Personal life

He was the son of Risaldar Major

Muhammad Ayub Khan).[2] He was born in the village of Rehana which is located in the Haripur District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. He belonged to the Tarin tribe of Hindko
-speaking Pashtuns.

He received his

.

Political career

A member of the

NWFP Legislative Assembly from the Haripur Central constituency in a by-election in the winter of 1939.[3]
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:

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.

Bahadur Khan served as Chief Commissioner of

Baluchistan
from 8 November 1954 – 19 July 1955.

After the 1962 elections, he became Leader of the Opposition in the

Muhammad Ayub Khan.[2]

[4]

The

Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University in Quetta is named in his memory and is the only all-female university in Balochistan.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ Sardar Bahadur Khan listed in the newspaper article as having served as Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Northwest Frontier Province), The Nation newspaper, Published 1 June 2013, Retrieved 28 May 2017
  2. ^ a b Former President Ayub Khan and Sardar Bahadur Khan as brothers Dawn newspaper, Published 30 January 2017, Retrieved 28 May 2017
  3. ^ See notification to this effect in the Govt of NWFP Gazette Extraordinary Vol 32, No4, 1940, p. 11
  4. ^ Bahadur Khan elected member of National Assembly of Pakistan in 1970, Dawn newspaper, Published 28 April 2012, Retrieved 6 June 2017
  5. ^ Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University Dawn newspaper, Published 7 April 2016, Retrieved 28 May 2017
  6. ^ Quetta university shut after attacks BBC News website, Published 17 June 2013, Retrieved 28 May 2017
Political offices
Preceded by
Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan
Chief Minister of North-West Frontier Province

1955
Succeeded by
Mufti Mahmud