Shaukat Hayat Khan

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Shaukat Hayat Khan
NW-30 (Campbellpur-I)[2]
Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
In office
10 August 1947 – 24 October 1954
ConstituencyCampbellpur District
Personal details
Born
Shaukat Hayat Khan

24 September 1915
1st Duke of York's Own Skinner's Horse
Battles/warsSecond World War–Mediterranean and Middle East theatre

Punjab
.

Educated at the Aligarh Muslim University and served in the British Indian Army in the Middle East theatre of the Second World War, he actively participated in the politics through the Muslim League platform. After a brief retirement, he made his comeback in politics during the general elections held in 1970 and was an instrumental negotiator in trying to settle the political issues with the Awami League.

Background

Shaukat Hayat Khan was born in

Kashmiri family settled in Amritsar, British India.[6]

After his mother's early demise in 1919, the young Shaukat and his siblings were taken care of by their aunt and in due course, he was sent to study at the Aitchison College and the Aligarh Muslim University, briefly, before he was sent, in keeping with family tradition, to join the British Indian Army, upon passing the qualifying examinations.[7]

Early military career

Upon completing his military training or

Skinner's Horse.[11] He thereafter served in Somalia, the Middle East and North Africa from 1940 to 1942, first promoted Captain April - July 1941, after that as a temporary Major until after his father's death in December 1942, when he quit military service to take up his political role in the Punjab. Upon taking his release he was regularized with the rank of major. He stayed in London
for a short period during 1943.

Early political career

On taking up his late father's political mantle, he was duly elected to the Punjab Assembly and made a member of the cabinet under the new Punjab premier,

independent Pakistan.[14]

Later career

After partition he left the Muslim League party amidst conflicts with

martial law
regimes.

Elected again from Attock in the 1970 general elections, he played a key role in the opposition negotiations with

Zulfiqar Bhutto which led to the passage of Pakistan's first interim constitution.[16] He was also one of the few Pakistani statesmen in 1970–71, who tried to negotiate amicably with the Awami League, to try to salvage former East Pakistan, which seceded and became Bangladesh soon afterwards.[17] Disillusioned, Khan soon afterwards resigned permanently from political life.[18]

He died in Islamabad on 25 September 1998 and is survived by two sons and four daughters. His son Sikander Hayat Junior has twice fought provincial elections from the PPP.[4]

Memoirs

He wrote his memoirs entitled The Nation That Lost Its Soul: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter (Lahore: Jang, 1995), its Urdu version being called Gumgashtah Qaum : Ek Mujāhid-i Āzādī Kī Yād Dāshten̲.

See also

References

  1. ^ "NA-42 Campbellpur Election 1977 Full Result Vote Candidate".
  2. ^ "NW-30 Campbellpur Attock Election 1970 Full Result Vote Candidate".
  3. ^ Khan was made Captain in 1941 and War Substantive Major in 1942 after passing a promotion course at Haifa Staff College. He was regularized as Major upon early release in 1945. See Indian Army List 1945
  4. ^ a b Press release (November 1998). "Obituaries: Shaukat Hyat Khan" (PDF). Salaam Society Journal. Vol. 28, no. 11. p. 49. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  5. ^ Shaukat Hayat Khan (1995). The Nation that Lost its Soul: Memoirs. Lahore: Jang Group of Publishers. p. 12.
  6. ^ Shaukat Hayat Khan (1995). The Nation that Lost its Soul: Memoirs. Lahore: Jang Group of Publishers. p. 17.
  7. ^ Shaukat Hyat Khan, Memoirs, p. 19
  8. ^ July 1938 Indian Army List
  9. ISBN 978-0-9530174-0-9
  10. ^ October 1938 Indian Army List
  11. ISBN 81-7062-185-2
  12. ^ Literally implying 'honour' and 'fame', a play on SHK's name. See Shahid Mahmud, Islamic Names and Titles in India and Pakistan, Rawalpindi: Ashraf Books, 1969, p.36
  13. ^ Shaukat Hyat Khan, "Memoirs', pp.77–78
  14. ISBN 978-1-105-15532-1
  15. ^ Memoirs, pp. 128–129
  16. ^ The 1973 Constitution in fact
  17. ^ Memoirs pp. 294–301
  18. ^ Memoirs, pp. 354–55

Further reading

  • Shaukat Hyat Khan, "The Nation that Lost its Soul: Memoirs of Sirdar Shaukat Hayat Khan"; Lahore:Jang Publications,1995
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