Khan Sardar Bahadur Khan () (8 July 1908 – 31 December 1975) was a Pakistani politician. He was the 9th Chief Minister of the

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a province of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the fourth largest province of Paki ...

(then called

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Personal life

He was the son of Risaldar Major Mir Dad Khan and the brother of former military dictator and president

Ayub Khan Mohammad Ayub Khan (14 May 1907 – 19 April 1974) was a Pakistani military dictator who served as the second president of Pakistan from 1958 until his resignation on 1969. He was the first native commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army, se ...

, (General

Muhammad Ayub Khan Mohammad Ayub Khan (14 May 1907 – 19 April 1974) was a Pakistani military dictator who served as the second president of Pakistan from 1958 until his resignation on 1969. He was the first native Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army, comm ...

).Former President Ayub Khan and Sardar Bahadur Khan as brothers Dawn newspaper
Published 30 January 2017, Retrieved 28 May 2017 He was born in the village of Rehana which is located in the

Haripur District Haripur District (Hindko, ) is a district in the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Before obtaining the status of a district in 1991, Haripur was a tehsil of Abbottabad District Its headquarters are the city of Haripur. Accor ...

of the

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Northern Pakistan, northwestern region of the country, Khyber ...

province. He belonged to the Tarin tribe of

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-speaking Pashtuns. He received his

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Degree from

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Political career

A member of the

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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. He became Speaker of the Assembly in 1942. He was re-elected in the 1946 election. Khan later served as

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for Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth Relations and Communications in the government of

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Liaquat Ali Khan Liaquat Ali Khan (1 October 189516 October 1951) was a Pakistani lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Pakistan The prime minister of Pakistan (, Roman Urdu, romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam , ) is the he ...

(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:

from 10 September 1949 – 19 October 1951,

Khawaja Nazimuddin Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin (19 July 1894 – 22 October 1964), also spelled Khwaja Nazimuddin, was a Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the second Governor-General of Pakistan from 1948 to 1951, and later as the second Prime Minister ...

from 24 October 1951 – 17 April 1953 and

Muhammad Ali Bogra Syed Mohammad Ali Chowdhury Bogra (19 October 1909 – 23 January 1963) was an East Pakistani politician, statesman, and a diplomat who served as third prime minister of Pakistan from 1953 to 1955. He was appointed in this capacity in 1953 u ...

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

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from 8 November 1954 – 19 July 1955. After the 1962 elections, he became Leader of the Opposition in the

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during the government of

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Field Marshal

. The Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University in

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is named in his memory and is the only all-female university in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Sardar Bahadur 1908 births Chief ministers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 1975 deaths Pashtun politicians People from Haripur District Hindkowan people Aligarh Muslim University alumni Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University alumni Sardar Bahadur Leaders of the opposition (Pakistan) Pakistani MNAs 1962–1965 Pakistani MNAs 1972–1977 Pakistani MNAs 1947–1954 Members of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan