Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan
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Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan was the first President of Azad Kashmir (the area of Kashmir which is administered by Pakistan). Khan was also the President of the All-Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference. He was born in 1915 in the Poonch District of Kashmir.
[edit] Education
He went to Poonch High School and, in 1936, to Islamia College, Lahore (then a part of British India). After graduation he studied law in Britain. In 1943 he obtained the LLB from the University of London.
[edit] After independence
After the independence of Pakistan from Britain, Khan became the special representative of Kashmir to the United Nations.
He was elected President of Azad Kashmir on five separate occasions. Sardar Ibrahim Khan is member of the Sudhan tribe of Kashmir. He died during 2003 at his son's home in Islamabad, Pakistan.
