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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = ''[[Khan Bahadur]]'' CaptainMajor Sir
| name = Sikandar Hayat Khan
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=small|sep=,|KBE}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|12|26|1892|06|05|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Lahore]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| father = [[Muhammad Hayat Khan|Nawab Muhammad Hyat Khan]]
| relations = [[Liaqat Hayat Khan]] (brother) <br> [[Shaukat Hayat Khan]] (son) <br> [[Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan]] (daughter) <br> [[Tahira Mazhar Ali]] (daughter) <br> [[Mazhar Ali Khan (journalist)|Mazhar Ali Khan]] (son in law) <br>[[Tariq Ali]] (grand son)
| party = [[Unionist Party (Punjab)|Unionist Party]]
| relatives =
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| unit = [[67th Punjabis]]
| serviceyears = 1916–1920
| rank = [[CaptainMajor (British Army and Royal Marinesrank)|CaptainMajor]]
| battles = [[World War I]]<br />[[Third Anglo-Afghan War]]
}}
''[[Khan Bahadur]]'' CaptainMajor '''Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE}} (5 June 1892 – 26 December 1942), also written '''Sikandar Hyat-Khan''' or '''Sikandar Hyat Khan''', was an Indian politician and statesman from the [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]] who served as the [[Prime Minister of the Punjab|Premier of the Punjab]], among other positions.<ref name=SOP>{{cite web|url=http://storyofpakistan.com/sir-sikandar-hayat-khan|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 October 2018|website=Story Of Pakistan website|title=Profile of Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan|access-date=16 January 2023|date=1 January 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022072944/http://storyofpakistan.com/sir-sikandar-hayat-khan}}</ref><ref name=TFT>{{Cite news |author=M. Tauqir Alam |date=29 March 2023 |title=The Resolution Of March 23, 1940: One Document Two Nations |newspaper=The Friday Times newspaper |url=https://thefridaytimes.com/29-Mar-2023/the-resolution-of-march-23-1940-one-document-two-nations|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 February 2024| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221201212/https://thefridaytimes.com/29-Mar-2023/the-resolution-of-march-23-1940-one-document-two-nations |access-date=21 February 2024}}</ref>
 
==Early life==
Sikandar Hayat Khan was born in [[Multan]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British Raj]] in a Punjabi Khattar[[Rajput]] family.<ref>[[Charles Allen (writer)|Charles Allen]], ''Soldier-Sahibs'', London, 2000, p. 166</ref><ref>See Sir Sikander Hyat Khan: The Soldier-Statesman of the Punjab, A Special Memorial Volume, Lahore: Government of the Punjab, 1943, pp. 10–12.</ref><ref name=SOP/> His father was [[Nawab]] [[Muhammad Hayat Khan]], a civil servant and close associate of [[Sir Syed Ahmed Khan]], and his grandfather was Sardar Karam Khan, who died in battle fighting for the [[British Empire|British]] against the [[Sikh Empire|Sikhs]] in the [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Talbot |first=Ian |title=Punjab and the Raj, 1849–1947 |date=1988 |publisher=Riverdale Company |isbn=0913215287}}</ref>
 
He was educated at Oriental Collegiate High School in [[Aligarh]] and later at [[Aligarh Muslim University]], and was sent to study medicine at [[King's College London]] in the [[United Kingdom]] but was recalled home by his family circa 1915.<ref>See ''Sir Sikander Hyat Khan: The Soldier-Statesman of the Punjab'', A Special Memorial Volume, Lahore: Government of the Punjab, 1943, pp. 10–12.</ref><ref name=SOP/>
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*[[Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan]], Pakistan's first woman minister
*[[Shaukat Hayat Khan]], senior Muslim League leader and political figure. Remained MNA in the 1970s Assembly and as a opposition MNA played an important role for the drafting and approval of 1973s Pakistan constitution.
*[[Tahira Mazhar Ali]], socialist leader and public activist
*[[Izzet Hayat Khan]], businessman and former Pakistani ambassador to [[Tunisia]]
*Ghairat Hayat Khan administrator, philanthropist and Member of Majlis e Shura, Pakistan{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}
 
Among his grandchildren are [[Tariq Ali]], the British-Pakistani socialist writer and [[Yawar Hayat Khan]], former senior director/producer of PTV (Pakistan Television);. amongAnother grandson Sardar Sikandar Hayat, eldest son of Sardar [[Shaukat Hayat Khan]] participated actively in constituent politics and remained MPA twice from Fatehjang (Attock) and also served as provincial minister.

Among his great-grandchildren is the noted Pakistani poet and scholar Omer Tarin.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ilyas Khan |date=November 2011 |title=Interview of poet Omer Tarin |url=https://ilyask2.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/interview-with-poet-omer-tarin-2011/ |access-date=7 July 2020
|website=WordPress.com website}}</ref>
|website=WordPress.com website}}</ref> Sardar Sikandar Hayat, grandson of Sir Sikandar Hayat and eldest son of Sardar [[Shaukat Hayat Khan]] participated actively in constituent politics and remained MPA twice from Fatehjang (Attock) and also served as provincial minister.
 
==See also==
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[[Category:Indian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:Indian knights]]
[[Category:Punjabi people]]
[[Category:People from Attock District]]
[[Category:Politicians from Punjab, Pakistan]]
[[Category:History of Punjab]]
[[Category:Governors of Punjab (British India)]]
[[Category:Hayat Khattar family|Sikandar]]
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