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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 = [[Major (British Army and Royal Marinesrank)|Major]]
| battles = [[World War I]]<br />[[Third Anglo-Afghan War]]
}}
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==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 Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Afghan War]]
[[Category:Pakistani recipients of the Order of the British Empire]]