Background
Khar was born in the Khar clan in Kot Addu, Muzaffargarh District, Punjab Province on 2 August 1937. His father, Mohammad Yar Khar, was one of the largest landowners of the district.
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Education
Khar was educated at Aitchison College, Lahore.
Career
He was appointed Governor and Martial Law Administrator of Punjab, the most electorally powerful province in the country by the newly sworn in President Bhutto following the collapse of Yahya Khan"s military government. When the 1973 constitution was adopted in August and Bhutto became Prime Minister of Pakistan, Khar was given the portfolio of Chief Minister of Punjab Province. Thanks to complaints from within the PPP, Khar was replaced by the far more left-leaning and intellectual Hanif Ramay.
Khar was briefly reappointed Governor in March 1975 before being finally dismissed in July 1975.
Bhutto"s suspicions over Khar"s ambitions as well as the deep divisions within the PPP in the Punjab led to his refusal to allow Khar to run for Ramay"s seat in Lahore. Khar"s attempts to run for the seat as an independent ended in failure.
Politics
In 1967 Khar joined Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as one of the founding members of the Pakistan Peoples Party as a close personal friend and political ally.
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