Shaukat Hayat Khan

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Shaukat Hayat Khan b.1915 d.199 ?

Shaukat Hayat Khan was a 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 II and was elected to the Punjab Assembly after his father (Sir Sikander Hyat Khan, Chief Minister of Punjab). He served as Minister for Public works in the Unionist Muslim League 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.

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Creation of Pakistan
History:	General History - British East India Company - Indian rebellion of 1857 - Aligarh Movement - Urdu movement - Partition of Bengal - Lucknow Pact - Khilafat Movement - Nehru Report - Fourteen Points of Jinnah - Allahabad Address - Now or Never pamphlet - Two-Nation Theory - Indian Round Table Conferences - Pakistan Resolution - Indian Muslim Nationalism - Cabinet Mission - Indian Independence Act - Radcliffe Line - Pakistan - Objectives Resolution - Yaum e Azadi
Organisation:	Muslim League - Unionist Muslim League - Jamaat-e-Islami - Khaksars
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 - A. K. Fazlul Huq - Sir Sikandar Hyat Khan - Zafar Ali Khan - Khawaja Nazimuddin - Abdul Qayyum Khan - Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy - Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan - more...
Activists:	ZA Suleri - Hameed Nizami - Altaf Husain - Yusuf Khattak - Shaukat Hayat Khan - more...