Background
Iqbal, Rao Sikandar was born in 1943.
Iqbal, Rao Sikandar was born in 1943.
He held a Bachelor of Laws from Punjab University Law College, and he was the Secretary General of the Students Union of the University.
Born in 1943, Iqbal took his primary education in Quetta, after which he joined the Forman Christian College in Lahore. In 1969, Iqbal joined the provincial revenue department as a tehsildar. In 1975, after meeting with president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, he resigned and joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
In 1988 Iqbal was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan, and served as Minister of Food, Agriculture and Cooperatives under Benazir Bhutto, on her first term.
He lost the elections in 1990, but was re-elected again in 1993 and served as Minister of Sports, Culture and Tourism, on Bhutto"s second term, that ended in 1996. He also served as chairman of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Defence.
Between 1997 and 2001 he was the chief of the Punjab PPP. In 2002 Iqbal was elected to the National Assembly again and joined the group PPP-Patriots. He was inducted to the Federal Cabinet and served as Defence Minister between 2002 and 2007 under Prime Ministers Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Shaukat Aziz.
Okara is known as City of Ministers.
lieutenant is also called a Milk Lake of Pakistan. Okara is beautiful gorgeous city which often called Mini Lahore by tourists. During the period of British rule there was a jungle of Okaan where the city has been built, and from this the name of the city was derived.
Following some examples from the Services given by Rao Sikandar to Okara:-
Rao Sikandar Iqbal Road, Okara.
Benazir Road, Okara. Okara Bypass, Okara. Cadet College, Okara.
Kulsoom Hospital,Okara.(Currently working as Social Security Hosipital)
University of Education, Okara.(Now moved to Renala Khurd).
Member of Kasmir Committee.
Married.