Rao Sikandar Iqbal
| Rao Sikandar Iqbal راؤسِكندراِقبال |
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| 23rd Defence Minister of Pakistan | |
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In office 23 November 2002 – 15 November 2007 |
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| President | Pervez Musharraf |
| Prime Minister |
Zafarullah Khan Jamali Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Shaukat Aziz |
| Preceded by | Pervez Musharraf |
| Succeeded by | Ahmad Mukhtar |
| Constituency | NA-144 (Okara-II) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1943 Quetta, Pakistan |
| Died | 29 September 2010 (aged 67) C.M.H Okara Cantt. |
| Nationality |
 Pakistan
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| Political party |
Pakistan Peoples Party PPP-Patriots |
| Spouse(s) | Shafiqa Rao Sikandar |
| Relations | Rao family |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater |
Forman Christian College,Lahore PULC, University of Punjab |
| Occupation | Lawyer , Politician. |
| Religion | Islam |
Rao Sikandar Iqbal (Urdu: راؤسِكندراِقبال), c. 1943 – September 29, 2010) was the Defence Minister of Pakistan from 2002 to 2007.
Born in 1943, Iqbal took his primary education in Quetta, after which he joined the Forman Christian College in Lahore. He held a LLB from Punjab University Law College, and he was the Secretary General of the Students Union of the University .
In 1969, Iqbal joined the provincial revenue department as a tehsildar. In 1975, after meeting with president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, he resigned and joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
In 1988 Iqbal was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan, and served as Minister of Food, Agriculture and Cooperatives under Benazir Bhutto, on her first term. He lost the elections in 1990, but was re-elected again in 1993 and served as Minister of Sports, Culture and Tourism, on Bhutto's second term, that ended in 1996. He also served as chairman of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Defence.
Between 1997 and 2001 he was the chief of the Punjab PPP.
In 2002 Iqbal was elected to the National Assembly again and joined the group PPP-Patriots. He was inducted to the Federal Cabinet and served as Defence Minister during this time, he was also honoured as Deputy Prime Minister between 2002 and 2007 under Prime Ministers Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Shaukat Aziz.
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