Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan
| Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan | |
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| Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir | |
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In office 17 June 1985 – 28 June 1990 |
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| Preceded by | Abdul Hamid Khan |
| Succeeded by | Raja Mummtaz Hussain Rathore |
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In office 25 July 2001 – 23 July 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Barrister Sultan Mahmood |
| Succeeded by | Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan |
| President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir | |
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In office 12 August 1991 – 11 May 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Abdul Rasheed Abbasi (Speaker Assembly / Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Abdul Rasheed Abbasi (Speaker Assembly / Acting) |
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In office 23 May 1996 – 11 August 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Abdul Rasheed Abbasi (Speaker Assembly / Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Raja Mummtaz Hussain Rathore(Speaker Assembly / Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 1, 1934 Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan (Urdu: سردار سِکندر حیات خان) (born June 1, 1934) was twice a former Prime Minister and President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. He has been the longest serving Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan was born into an eminent political family of Kashmir, he is the son of Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi, a name synonymous with one of the first major uprisings against the repressive Dogra regime in 1931. It was Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi, who led the popular agitation against an arbitrary tax on salt imposed by the Maharaja's regime. Three years later in 1934, running as a candidate for the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, he was elected to the Jammu and Kashmir Legislature, the Praja Sabha, from his home constituency of Mendhar-Poonch, an office he successfully held through the elections of 1938 and 1944. In 1948 when he was President of All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference in Mendhar, he organised the supply of arms to protect the Poonch and Rajauri area and later, he also served as a member of the State Council during 1969–70. He is remembered today by the Muslims of Azad Jammu and Kashmir as one of the pioneers of the struggle of the people of Jammu and Kashmir for their rights under the tyrannical and alien rule of the Dogras.
Growing up, Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan received his early schooling in his native village of Karela in tehsil Fatehpur Thakiala, now in District Kotli and in Poonch city. Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan came to the famous Gordon College (Rawalpindi) from where he graduated in 1956 before going on to the University Law College in Lahore to obtain a law degree in 1958.
He returned to Kotli to start a law practice and also formally joined the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, an association he has maintained with consistency and has come to be recognized as the hallmark of his politics. He also successfully ran for membership of the local council, a position he occupied for eight years and during this period was also elected as President of Bar Association, Kotli. In 1970, he was elected to the Azad Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
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