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Sir Liaqat Hayat Khan

(1887-1948), Prime Minister of Patiala

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Sir Liaqat Hayat Khan, by Bassano Ltd - NPG x96784

Sir Liaqat Hayat Khan

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 16 April 1935
NPG x96784

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Dr Ilyas Khan

20 October 2018, 21:41

Sir Liaqat Hayat Khan (also spelt Liaqat Hyat Khan) was born in Wah village, Attock area of Northern Punjab, in 1887, son of Nawab Muhammad Hayat Khan, CSI, a prominent native officer in British service and a local Punjabi feudal landlord. The family were of indigenous Khattar Jatt origins and not Turks or Arabs as mistakenly claimed by some people. Liaqat Hayat , after completing his education entered junior police service in Patiala princely state and, over time, he rose to be Head if the Patiala police and the state's Minister of Interior. Later, he was promoted by HH Maharaja Sir Bhupinder Singh of Patiala, as his Prime Minister and given the honorary personal title of 'Nawab' and the KCSI knighthood in 1932. He represented Patiala at the Third Round Table Conference in London in 1933. After the partition of India/creation of Pakistan, he opted for the new state and was invited by Pakistan's first Governor-General Mr MA Jinnah, to represent the country as it's ambassador in France. However, Sir Liaqat died in 1948 before he could take up this charge. He is best known today for being the elder brother of the famous Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, KB (1892_1942), former Premier of the Punjab.

Sardar Taimur Hyat-Khan

11 April 2018, 08:02

Khan Bahadur Nawab Sir Liaqat Hyat-Khan KCIE OBE, (February 1887 – 1948) was an Indian Government official who started his career as a Deputy Superintendent of Police in the Princely State of Patiala and rose to eventually become a minister and later Prime Minister of Patiala. Sir Liaqat was the son of Nawab Muhammad Hyat-Khan, CSI, of the Royal Khattar Clan of Illbari Turks, descended from Khattar Khan, the conqueror of Bagh Neelaab Fort, the bridgehead for the Ghaznivid and Ghorid Turks to conqueror India, in what is presently Attock District of Pothwar in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. He belonged to Wah village (previously known as Jallalsar after Jallal Khan Khattar who settled in the village) and was the elder brother of Lt. Col. Sir Sardar Sikandar Hyat-Khan KBE, the Prime Minister of Combined Punjab. He represented tha Indian Princely States in the third Round Table Conference in London From September 1931 until March 1933, under the supervision of the Secretary of State for India, Sir Samuel Hoare, the proposed reforms took the form reflected in the Government of India Act 1935.