Ghulam Faruque Khan Khattak

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, CIE, OBE (7 October 1899 – 29 April 1992) was a Pakistani politician and businessman who was the founder of Ghulam Faruque Group. As a politician, he became Governor of

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and Federal Minister for Commerce, Science and Technology where he served from 1964 to 1967. He was also member of the

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from 1973 to 1977 and member of the

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from 1985 to 1991 and again from 1991 until his death. He was also the founder of Pakistani conglomerate Ghulam Faruque Group.

Early life

Ghulam Faruque Khan Khattak was born on October 7, 1899, in Midnapore. He was the son of Khan Mir Aslam Khan Khattak (1841–1922), a

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, civil contractor and Muslim leader of

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who donated huge amount of money to Muslims education and always stood for the rights of Muslims. Mir Aslam Khan was a

Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically re ...

of the Akor Khel Khattak tribe and was born in the house of Nawab Khan Khattak. His father was Rasual Khan Khattak of

Shaidu Shaidu (شيدو) is a town in the Nowshera District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The population is approximately 75,000. Shaidu lies on the alluvial silt of the Indus River. It is a centre of the surrounding agricultural lands. Shaidu lies ...

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, which is a village in Nowshera

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District of

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(now in

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, in Pakistan). Shaidu is home to the Akor Khel, ruling khel of the

Khattak The Khattak ( ps, خټک) tribe are a prominent Pashtun tribe located in the Khattak territory, which consists of Karak, Nowshera, Kohat districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. History Khushal Khan Khattak A warrior poet by the name of ...

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, as well as to the Mohallah

( Khel stands for a

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or descendants)

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who came here when two sons of

Khushal Khan Khattak Khošāl Khān Khaṭak (1613 – 25 February 1689; Pashto: خوشال خان خټک), also known as Khushal Baba ( ps, خوشال بابا), was a Pashtun poet, chief, and warrior. Khushal Khan served the Mughal Empire protecting them fr ...

, named Shahbaz Khan Khattak and Abdul Qadir Khan Khattak, came from

Akora Khattak Akora Khattak ( ps, اکوړه خټک , Urdu: اکوڑہ خٹک ) or Sarai Akora is a town in Jehangira tehsil of Nowshera District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It sits beside the Kabul River, which merges with the Indus River ...

to Shaidu. The two larger groups of Khan Khel descend from the brothers. The Akor Khels, a clan named after Akoray, still hold a prominent position in the Khattak tribe. He was appointed an Officer of the

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(OBE) in the 1944 New Year Honours, and was appointed a Companion of the

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(CIE) in the 1946 New Year Honours. He was undefeated in every election in which he was a candidate over his entire political career. He defeated Arbab Noor Muhammad Khan in his home town, Peshawar NW.2, in 1970. He was reelected from NW.2 in 1972. He died on April 29, 1992. Faruque advanced the vision behind the development of the gas fields, He was integral to the development of the printing company that prints Pakistani currency, setting up

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& Pakistan's first cement plant and developing the Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works and establishing

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Ghulam Faruque Group

* Cherat Cement Company Ltd * Cherat Papersack Ltd * Mirpurkhas Sugar Mills Ltd * Faruque (Pvt.) Ltd * Greaves Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd * Greaves C.N.G (Pvt.) Ltd * Greaves Air-Conditioning(Pvt.) Ltd * Greaves Engineering (Pvt.) Ltd * Madian Hydro Power Ltd.—A JV Company * Unicol Ltd.—A JV Company * Zensoft (Pvt.) Ltd

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Faruque, Ghulam Pakistani industrialists Pashtun people Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire Officers of the Order of the British Empire 1899 births 1992 deaths Governors of East Pakistan Members of the Senate of Pakistan Pakistani MNAs 1972–1977 Pakistani Members of the Order of the British Empire