Shaukat Hayat Khan
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Shaukat Hayat Khan b.1915 d.199 ?
Prominent Muslim League movement worker who worked closely with the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the Punjab. Hailing from Wah in Attock, he served in the Indian Army at the beginning of World War 2. Elected to the Punjab Assembly after his father (Sir Sikander Hayat Khan, Chief Minister of Punjab). He served as Minister for Public works in the Unionist government. Dismissed in 1944 for his increasingly pro Jinnah policies he was subsequently elected deputy leader of the Punjab League. Re-elected in 1946 he became a prominent activist in the Muslim League direct action campaign. 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.
See also
- Sir Sikander Hayat Khan
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Creation of Pakistan
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| History: | General History - British East India Company - 1857 War of Independence - Aligarh Movement - Partition of Bengal - Lucknow Pact - Khilafat Movement - Nehru Report - Fourteen Points of Jinnah - Allahabad Address - Now or Never pamphlet - Two-Nation Theory - British East India Company - Indian Round Table Conferences - Pakistan Resolution - Indian Muslim Nationalism - Cabinet Mission - Indian Independence Act - Radcliffe Line - Pakistan - Objectives Resolution - Yaum e Azadi
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| Organisation: | Muslim League
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| Leaders: | Sir Syed - Iqbal - Quaid-i-Azam - Liaquat Ali Khan - Bahadur Yar Jung - Abdur Rab Nishtar - Fatima Jinnah - Choudhary Rahmat Ali - Muhammad Ali Jouhar - Shaukat Ali - Zafar Ali Khan - Khawaja Nazimuddin - Abdul Qayyum Khan - Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy - Ghulam Ahmed Pervez - Shaukat Hayat Khan - Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan -
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| Activists: | ZA Suleri - Hameed Nizami - Altaf Husain - Yusuf Khattak - |
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