Captain Khalilur Rehman ( ur, خلیل الرحمن b. 5 May 1934) , best known as Commander Khalil, is a retired

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in the Pakistan Navy who served as the Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, appointed in 2005 until being replaced in 2006. In addition, he also commanded the Royal Bahrain Naval Force from 1976 until retiring from his military service in 1988 to pursue career in the politics.

Biography

Khalilur Rehman was born in a Surezai, a small village, located in the vicinity of the

Peshawar District Peshawar District ( ps, پېښور ولسوالۍ, hnd, , ur, ) is a district in Peshawar Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is located about 160 km west of the Pakistan's capital Islamabad. The district headquarter i ...

North-West Frontier Province The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; ps, شمال لویدیځ سرحدي ولایت, ) was a Chief Commissioner's Province of British India, established on 9 November 1901 from the north-western districts of the Punjab Province. Followi ...

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on 5 May 1934. He was educated at the

Edwardes College Edwardes College Peshawar is a semi-government degree The college's undergraduate and graduate degree programs lead to the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), 4 year BS Programme in English and Computer Science, Master of Bus ...

before joining the Pakistan Navy in 1954. He is of Hindkowan background. He did his initial military training at the Royal Naval College in

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, where he secured his

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. In 1963–67,

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Khalil served in the Ayub administration as a staff officer. He served in the second war with

in 1965, and in third war with India in 1971 where he served on the destroyer as an executive officer. In 1973, Commander Khalil commanded the PNS Alamgir until 1976 when he was selected to assume the command of the Royal Bahrain Naval Force, which Captain Khalil commanded until 1988. In addition, he went to attend the

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in Lahore. In 1988,

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Khalil served in the faculty of the

but later resigned from his commission when he decided to play a role in national politics, and surprised many when he won the elections for the

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which he served until 2006 as an

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Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (2005-2006)

On 13 March 2005, Khalil was appointed as the 25th

Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the appointed head of state of the provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier Province), Pakistan. Although the governor is the head of the province on paper, it is largely a c ...

by then-

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when Lt-Gen. Iftikhar Hussain tendered his resignation. However, his tenureship was cut short when President Musharraf decided to replace him with his loyal officer, Lt-Gen.

Ali Jan Aurakzai Lieutenant-General Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai (Urdu language: على محمدجان اوركزى Pashto language: علي محمد جان یاکزی ), is a retired three-star rank general officer in the Pakistan Army who served as the Corps Co ...

. It was reportedly widely that Khalil had found it difficult to run province with an increasingly assertive military and 80,000 troops in the tribal region On 23 May 2006, Khalil was eventually replaced by Lt-Gen.

and retired from the politics.

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NWFP Governor Khalil being replaced
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rehman, Khalilur 1934 births Hindkowan people People from Peshawar Edwardes College alumni Graduates of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich Pakistan Navy officers Pakistani military personnel of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Pakistan Naval War College alumni Pakistani expatriates in Bahrain Members of the Senate of Pakistan Governors of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Living people Deputy chairmen of the Senate of Pakistan

Biography

Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (2005-2006)

See also

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