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Ghulam Mustafa Khar
Pakistani politician
For other people with similar names, see Ghulam Mustafa (disambiguation).
Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar (Urdu: غلام مصطفى کھر; born 2 August ) is a Pakistani politician and feudal lord who has previously served as the Chief Minister of Punjab and Governor of Punjab.
Early life
He was born on 2 August in Sanawan in Kot Addu, Punjab to a wealthy landlord family belonging to the Kharclan, of the larger Kharal tribe. From his maternal side, he is a descendant of Khawaja Suleman Taunsvi of Taunsa Sharif.[6]
He received his education from Aitchison College, Lahore.[7]
Politics
Ghulam Mustafa Khar won his first National Assembly election in at the age of He remained on posts of Minister of Water and Power, Chief Minister and Governor. In , Khar joined Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as one of the founding members of the Pakistan Peoples Party as a close personal friend and political ally. He was appointed Governor and Martial Law Administrator of Punjab, the most electorally powerful province in the country by the newly sworn in President Bhutto following the collapse of Yahya Khan's military government. When the constitution was adopted in August and Bhutto became Prime Minister of Pakistan, Khar was given the portfolio of Chief Minister of Punjab Province.[8]
Thanks to complaints from within the PPP, Khar was replaced by the far more left-leaning and intellectual Hanif Ramay. Khar was briefly reappointed Governor in March before being finally dismissed in July Bhutto's suspicions over Khar's ambitions as well as the deep divisions within the PPP in the Punjab led to his refusal to allow Khar to run for Ramay's seat in Lahore. Khar's attempts to run for the seat as an independent ended in failure. By , former rivals within the PPP, Khar and Ramay were working together within the Pir of Pagaro's Pakistan Muslim League (F). However, his relations with Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto briefly improved as he was appointed Special Assistant to the Prime Minister in [9]
In April , he joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and he is considered to be on the left-wing of the PTI.[10]
Personal life
Khar has been married eight times.[11] One of Khar's marriages was to Tehmina Durrani, a Pakistani women's rights activist and author. Her first book, My Feudal Lord, released by Vanguard Books of Lahore in June , caused controversy in Pakistan's society by describing her abusive and traumatic marriage to Ghulam Mustafa Khar.[12]
His daughter Aaminah Haq is a Pakistani model and actress noted as a Lux model and for her role in the television drama Mehndi.
Hina Rabbani Khar, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, is the daughter of his brother Ghulam Noor Rabbani.[13]
His son, Bilal Mustafa Khar was accused by his former wife Fakhra Younus of pouring acid over her face. Later, his son was acquitted of the charges. Four witnesses who testified to seeing his son enter Fakhra's home on the day of the attack complained of receiving death threats; they later retracted their statements due to the seriousness of the threats. In December , judge dismissed the charges. Khar continued to protest his son's innocence, claiming the perpetrator was a pimp with whom his wife had been having an affair.[14]
Writings
Books
- Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto ki Kahani, , p.
- Khari Baten, , p.
Book chapter
“Pakistan’s role in Muslim world” in the book Re-emerging Muslim World edited by Zahid Malik, published by Pakistan National Centre in
See also
References
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- ^"Ghulam Mustafa Khar set to join PML-F - The Express Tribune". 24 May
- ^"Ayesha Butt becomes seventh official wife of Federal Minister Ghulam Mustafa Khar". India Today. September 15,
- ^"Khar weds for eighth time". 15 March
- ^"Between pirs and politicians | Encore | ". . Retrieved
- ^"Ghulam Mustafa Khar | Former Chief Minister of the Punjab during Z.A. Bhutto Government". Story Of Pakistan. Retrieved
- ^The Terrorist Prince: The Life and Death of Murtuza Bhutto p12 ISBN "Punjab, admittedly, was Bhutto's power base, but after a revolt by his most trusted deputy, Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar, in he no longer felt too easy with the country's largest and most formidable province."
- ^"Ghulam Mustafa Khar Former Chief Minister of the Punjab during Z.A. Bhutto Government". 5 January
- ^Basharat, The Daily. "رضا ربانی کھر کی پی ٹی آئی میں شمولیت، حنا کا انکار" (in Urdu). Archived from the original on Retrieved
- ^Correspondent, A. (). "Khar weds for eighth time". . Retrieved
- ^"Tehmina Durrani: 'My family disowned me for 13 years'". The Express Tribune. Retrieved
- ^"Who is Hina Rabbani Khar?". . Retrieved
- ^"Fakhra Younus". . 16 April Retrieved