Khawaja Muhammad Safdar was a Pakistani politician from

Pakistan Muslim League The Pakistan Muslim League ( ur, ; known as PML), is the name of several different Pakistani political parties that have dominated the right-wing platform in the country. The Muslim League (a different party) was the party of Pakistan’s ...

Early life and career

He was born in Sialkot and took an active part in the

Pakistan Movement The Pakistan Movement ( ur, , translit=Teḥrīk-e-Pākistān) was a political movement in the first half of the 20th century that aimed for the creation of Pakistan from the Muslim-majority areas of British India. It was connected to the pe ...

before 1947. In 1981, he was nominated as chairman of

Majlis-e-Shoora The Parliament of Pakistan ( ur, , , "Pakistan Advisory Council" or "Pakistan Consultative Assembly") is the federal and supreme legislative body of Pakistan. It is a bicameral federal legislature that consists of the Senate as the upper ho ...

, Pakistan and also acted as

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of Pakistan in this capacity. He is the father of foreign minister of Pakistan in 2017,

Khawaja Muhammad Asif Khawaja Muhammad Asif (; born 9 August 1949) is a Pakistani politician currently serving as the Defence Minister of Pakistan since April 2022, He has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, since August 2018. Previously, he was a ...

. He was elected Member of Provincial Assembly of West Pakistan in 1962 and was thereafter elected as leader of opposition. He was re-elected to both these position in 1965. and served in those positions till 25 March 1969, when General Agha Muhammad

Yahya Khan General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan , (Urdu: ; 4 February 1917 – 10 August 1980); commonly known as Yahya Khan, was a Pakistani military general who served as the third President of Pakistan and Chief Martial Law Administrator following his pr ...

seized power and dissolved the Assemblies. Khawaja Muhammad Safdar contested 1970 elections in Pakistan but lost to a nominee of

Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, , ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third largest party in the National Assembly and second largest in the Senate of Pakistan. The party was founded ...

. ''Sialkot Medical College'' was set up in

Sialkot Sialkot ( ur, ) is a city located in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the capital of Sialkot District and the 13th most populous city in Pakistan. The boundaries of Sialkot are joined with Jammu (the winter capital of Indian administered Jammu and Ka ...

in 2011 which was later renamed after Khawaja Muhammad Safdar as

Khawaja Muhammad Safdar Medical College Khawaja Muhammad Safdar Medical College (formerly, Sialkot Medical College) is a public sector Medical College in Sialkot, Pakistan. It was established on the initiative of CM Shehbaz Sharif to give quality education in the region of Punjab ...

.Sialkot Medical College renamed as Khawaja Muhammad Safdar Medical College
pulsepakistan.com website, Retrieved 8 August 2017 A famous main boulevard in Sialkot on which Khwaja Muhammad Safdar Medical College lies has also been named as Khwaja Muhammad Safdar Road.

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Pakistani MNAs 1962–1965 Pakistani MNAs 1965–1969 Punjabi people Pakistani people of Kashmiri descent Pakistan Movement activists Pakistan Muslim League politicians People from Sialkot {{Pakistan-activist-stub

Early life and career

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