Background
Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan was born into an eminent political family of Kashmir, he is the son of Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi, a name synonymous with one of the first major uprisings against the repressive Dogra regime in 1931.
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Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan
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Growing up, Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan received his early schooling in his native village of Karela in tehsil Fatehpur Thakiala, now in District Kotli and in Poonch city. Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan came to the famous Gordon College (Rawalpindi) from where he graduated in 1956 before going on to the University Law College in Lahore to obtain a law degree in 1958.
Career
He has been the longest serving Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. lieutenant was Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi, who led the popular agitation against an arbitrary tax on salt imposed by the Maharaja"s regime. He also successfully ran for membership of the local council, a position he occupied for eight years and during this period was also elected as President of Bar Association, Kotli.
In 1970, he was elected to the Azad Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
He has been returned to office from his constituency in every election held in Azad Kashmir between 1970 and 2001, barring the years when he was President of Azad Kashmir. Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan was inducted into the Azad Jammu & Kashmir cabinet as Minister of Revenue, Forests and Finance in 1972 and retained that portfolio for the next three years.
In 1985, he was elected Prime Minister of Azad Jammu & Kashmir and retained that office for the next five years. He remained leader of the opposition in the Assembly during the next two years, before he was elected President of Azad Jammu & Kashmir for a five-year term in 1991.
He was sworn in as Prime Minister of Azad Jammu & Kashmir on July 25, 2001 for the second time and retired from active politics in July 2006 after completing his second term.
Politics
But later he played a major role in introducing PML-(North) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir which was acknowledged by giving him a position of Senior Vice President of Pakistan Muslim League (North) in 2011.
