Sardar Ibrahim Khan
| Bani-e-Kashmir Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan | |
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Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan as the 32 years old, first President of Azad Kashmir in 1948
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| President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir | |
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In office 25 August 1996 – 25 August 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Abdul Rashid Abbasi (interim) |
| Succeeded by | Sardar Muhammad Anwar Khan |
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In office 5 June 1975 – 30 October 1978 |
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| Preceded by | Sardar Mohammad Abdul Qayyum Khan |
| Succeeded by | Brigadier Muhammad Hayat Khan |
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In office 13 April 1957 – 30 April 1959 |
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| Preceded by | Sardar Mohammad Abdul Qayyum Khan |
| Succeeded by | Khurshid Hasan Khurshid |
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In office 24 October 1947 – 12 May 1950 |
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| Succeeded by | Captain General Syed Ali Ahmed Shah |
| Personal details | |
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April 10, 1915 Kot Mattay Khan, Poonch district, Kashmir and Jammu, British India |
| Died | July 31, 2003 (aged 88) Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Political party | Muslim Conference, Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party |
| Spouse(s) | Zaib-un-Nisa Khan |
| Relations |
Sardar Javed Ibrahim Khan (Son) Sardar Khalid Ibrahim Khan (Son) Uft-e-Huma (Daughter) Sardar Farooq Ibrahim Khan (Son) |
Sardar Javed Ibrahim Khan (Son)
Sardar Khalid Ibrahim Khan (Son)
Uft-e-Huma (Daughter)
Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan (April 10, 1915 – July 31, 2003) also known as Bani-e-Kashmir, "Father of Kashmir" and Ghazi-e-Millat, "Hero of the Nation", was the founder and first President of Azad Kashmir. In British India of 1946, he won the Jammu and Kashmir State Assembly election and became a member of the Praja Sabha. In 1947, during the Poonch rebellion, he led an army of Kashmiri guerrillas against the Maharaja of Kashmir, Hari Singh.
Before that, on 19 July 1947, Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan and his party Muslim Conference had passed a resolution for Kashmir's accession to Pakistan. Khan and his army were unable to capture the entire Kashmiri territory due to a resolution passed by the United Nations on August 13, 1948. The area they took over was renamed to Azad Kashmir, and became a self-governing division of Pakistan. Khan was elected as its first President at the age of 32 in 1948. He represented Kashmir in different capacities at the United Nations from 1948 to 1971. He was the grand-uncle of Masood Khan, a career diplomat who has been recently appointed as the President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in August 2016.
Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan was born on April 10, 1915 in Kot Mattay Khan, a village in the Poonch District of Kashmir. He received his primary education in his village. He attended college and received a Bachelors of Arts degree in 1935 at Islamia College (Lahore) and sought higher education abroad in 1938. He obtained his LLB degree from the University of London in 1943. Khan then obtained a law degree from Lincoln's Inn, and started practicing law at Srinagar, Kashmir.
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