Sardar Ghulam Muhammad Khan Mahar (

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Mahar tribe, and a prominent politician and philanthropist of the

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District. He was first elected as a member of

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in 1964. He became senator in 1973 with the

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(PPP). He was elected a member of the National Assembly in 1977 general elections as the PPP candidate from NA-152

II, he was elected Chairman District Council Sukkur in 1979 and remained until 1983. He was Minister for Agriculture when General

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was the Martial Law Administrator. He won general elections of March 1985 as an independent candidate, and remained Minister of State for Health from 22 December 1986 to 29 May 1988 in

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's cabinet. In 1988, post Gen

era elections, he was defeated by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP's) candidate Mian Abdul Haq Alias Mian Mitho. He became a member of National Assembly once again in October 1993 by contesting general elections from NA-152 as the candidate of

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and afterward he died in April 1995.

Sardar Mahar

He became sardar of Mahar tribe at the age of 21. He was involved in politics from 1964 to 1995, and during that period he became federal minister for several times. Khan died on 9 April 1995. After his death, his elder son Mohammed Bux Khan Mahar

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Government of Sindh The Government of Sindh ( sd, حڪومت سنڌ) ( ur, ) is the provincial government of the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Its powers and structure are set out in the provisions of the 1973 Constitution, in which 30 Districts of 7 Divisions un ...

became the "

Sardar Sardar, also spelled as Sardaar/Sirdar ( fa, سردار, , 'commander', literally 'headmaster'), is a title of royalty and nobility that was originally used to denote princes, noblemen, chiefs, kings and other aristocrats. It has also been u ...

" of Mahar tribe.

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in village Waloo Mahar near

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and

Ghulam Muhammad Mahar Medical College Ghulam Muhammad Mahar Medical College ( غلام محمد مہر میڈیکل کالج) or GMMMC in short is the sixth public sector Medical college under the Government of Sindh where 100 meritorious students of tagged districts, including Su ...

were named after him.

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