Sardar Muhammad Aslam Advocate (June 1937 – 12 December 1997) was member of the upper house of parliament of

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(the

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). He was twice elected as senator on the

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ticket. He was also member of Pakistan Peoples Party central executive committee and President Pakistan Peoples Party Hazara division from 1967 to 1977. He was also a three-time president of the District Bar Association

Abbottabad Abbottabad (; Urdu, Punjabi language(HINDKO dialect) آباد, translit=aibṭabād, ) is the capital city of Abbottabad District in the Hazara region of eastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the 40th largest city in Pakistan and fourth ...

Background

Sardar Aslam was born in Nawanshehr, District Abbottabad. He was son of Captain Sardar Zain Muhammad Khan, elder of the Karlal tribe of Abbottabad and one of earliest parliamentarians of

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. Followin ...

(NWFP) from Hazara. The elder Sardar was elected as Member Legislative Assembly of NWFP in 1946 elections on the ticket of All India Muslim League from Abbottabad and, after the creation of Pakistan, also served as parliamentary secretary for education till 1952. Sardar Muhammad Aslam was a law graduate from Peshawar University and initially joined the

police department as prosecutor, but in 1966 he resigned from service and started law practice in District Bar Abbottabad.

Political career

He remained President of the

(PPP) Hazara Division and member Central Executive Committee of PPP from 1967–77. He along with Hayyat Sherpao Shaeed was a pioneer who laid the foundations of PPP in NWFP. In the initial phase of organizing of the PPP he was one of the close aides of

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Zulfikar (or Zulfiqar) Ali Bhutto ( ur, , sd, ذوالفقار علي ڀٽو; 5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979), also known as Quaid-e-Awam ("the People's Leader"), was a Pakistani barrister, politician and Politician, statesman who served as ...

. In 1973 he became member of the first

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for a three-year term by ballot and later on in 1976 was again nominated by Bhutto for another term of six years. He remained a member of the Senate until the imposition of the Martial Law in 1977. He also represented Pakistan in International Parliamentarians Congress 1976 in Colombo and was also member of Pakistan's delegation to China in 1974 and 1975. He also served as President of District Bar Association

three times. Apart from national politics, throughout his life he remained an influential tribal elder of district Abbottabad. He died on 12 December 1997.Daily Frontier Post, Peshawar,13 December 1997

References

External links

DAWN / NEWS International, Karachi
17 November 1997. {{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Sardar Mohammad Aslam 1930s births 1997 deaths Pakistani politicians