Background
He was the son of Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, Jatt Khattar, Premier of the Punjab (1936-1942), from his third wife.
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Sardar Khan
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He attended the leading preparatory boarding school Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College (now Rashtriya Indian Military College) in Dehra Dun, India, India.
Career
In 1947, after the partition of India, he transferred to the Aitchison College in Lahore, from where he received his high school diploma
In 1948, he was among the first batch of cadets nominated and accepted to attend the newly formed Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) in Kakul. However he wasn"t happy there and received an honorable discharge from the PMA and decided to pursue a career in business management abroad. He left for the United Kingdom from where received his professional certificate in accountancy from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
After graduating, Khan joined Glaxo Laboratories" Executive Management Training program in the United Kingdom. He was later appointed as Region Head and General Manager, and was stationed in Dhaka (Bangladesh then East Pakistan), Karachi and Lahore in West Pakistan (now Pakistan).
In 1966, he set up F&I Industries (Pvt) Limited, in Islamabad, Pakistan, a sugar confectionery products manufacturing company. In 1980, Khan was nominated to build ties with Maghreb nations by serving as a specially politically appointed Ambassador to Tunisia and Special Envoy to the Arab League, by the Pakistani dictator and president General Zia-ul-Haq.
Between 1980 and 1983, he organized multiple milestone audiences between the late Chaudhry Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (Pakistan"s first Foreign Minister), Professor Doctor Abdus Salam (Nobel Laureate of Pakistan), and others with the late President Habib Ben Ali Bourguiba of Tunisia
In 1983, Khan was offered an extension on the Ambassadorial assignment, however, he declined due to developing differences with then President General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
He returned to Pakistan in 1983 and turned his focus towards revitalizing F&I Industries, taking it from a manufacturer of confectionery products to a diversified food conglomerate by entering the dried-milk powder products segment.
In 1987, Khan suffered from heart conditions and was flown to Houston, Texas, United States of America, where he was treated at Baylor Saint Luke"s Medical Center by the famed Doctor Denton Cooley. Later that year, he relocated to Long Beach, California for a brief period reviewing investments in the hospitality and services industry. This was cut short as he was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and for which he underwent surgery in Long Beach, California, returning to Pakistan in 1988.
Khan suffered from a severe stroke that left him gravely illinois
He died at Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead United Kingdom, at age 73, on the morning of 6 October 2002.
Membership
At Glaxo, he held various executive management roles and was a member of the M&A team at Glaxo that completed the acquisition of Allen & Hanbury"s in 1958.
