Mr. Sardar Attique Khan

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  While discussing the outcome of the elections one Pakistani political commentator said, 'Musharraf Sahib has won the elections by a single stroke.' One person among this small gathering did not understand this and innocently asked, 'How could he win if he was not contesting the elections.'
  
  It is true that he was not contesting these elections, yet he played a key role in these elections. Good thing about a President with a commando training is that he does not hesitate when he feels something needs to be done. He is 'brave', so he claims, and commando training and thinking has equipped him with skills to produce surprises which prove to be lethal for his opponents.
  
  History of Azad Kashmir is witness to this fact that whoever has ruled Pakistan has also appointed a puppet of his/her choice in Azad Kashmir that he could look after interests of Pakistan. In fact the very first President of Azad Kashmir was installed as a president after abolishing 'Provisional Government' of Azad Kashmir on 24th October 1947; and according to first President's own admission late at night on 23 rd October he was told by Commissioner for Rawalpindi and others that he would be President from tomorrow.
  
  In other words when he went to bed on the night of 23rd October he didn't know that political masters in Pakistan have decided to appoint him as a President of Azad Kashmir. One can draw comparisons with this fact that Sardar Anwar Khan, present President of Azad Kashmir, as a serving Major General of Pakistan army went to bed at night with his diary full of military related business.
  
  Because of advancement in communication, this time unlike Sardar Ibrahim Khan, he was not woken up at midnight to be told about new task at hand. He was told he has to cancel military related appointments as political masters of Pakistan have found him a new 'job' as a President of Azad Kashmir - what a promotion.
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  Earlier 'No objection Certificate' was obtained for Sardar Attique Sahib, and according to reliable sources only 25 crore rupees were given to those who decide future of Azad Kashmir government.
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  We know that General Sahib, since becoming Army Chief has called all the shots and had his way despite opposition from Pakistani parties and others. Why we 'enslaved' Kashmiris invite his wrath and that of Pakistani statecraft by disobeying his whims, after all people don't want to be at the wrong end of the stick all the time.

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  ARTICLE (October 16 2009): ad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Yaqoob Khan resigned from office on Wednesday night, just a few hours before a no confidence motion, which was to be voted on Thursday.
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  The nine-month-old government of Prime Minister Sardar Yaqoob Khan faced the same charges, which were drafted for his predecessor Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan: Misuse of funds, illegal and unconstitutional appointments in government departments, no mega-projects for uplift of the area, rehabilitation failure, etc.
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  The no-confidence move against Prime Minister Sardar Yaqoob Khan could be a surprise for those who were not much aware of the internal political dynamics of AJK, but, for those who sit on the helm of political conspiracies in AJK, it is yet another episode of 'divide-and-rule' drama. On 13 October, two days before the vote on no confidence move, Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, president of Muslim Conference and main actor behind this motion was in Murree to share the details of his latest political adventure with the powers that be.
  
  On 14 October, he told media persons that it would not be possible for his party to consider President Asif Ali Zardari's advice to refrain from moving a no-confidence motion, as, he said, it was already moved.

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  A delegation of Islamic Relief staff met with the Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Mr Sardar Sakandar Hyat Khan, on the 18th of June 2002. The Prime Minister expressed his sincere appreciation of the work that Islamic Relief has been carrying out in the area since 1998.
  
  Mr Affan Cheema, Head of Programmes for IR Pakistan, spoke to Mr Khan about the history of Islamic Relief, and the projects IR operates throughout the world.
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  Mr Sardar Sakandar Hyat Khan, Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir

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  Mr. Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan, Supreme-Head of All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference; Ex-President/Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

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  Muslim Conference President Sardar Atiq Khan, who is expected to be the next prime minister of Pakistani Kashmir, told Reuters the allegations were unjust.
  
  "We are ruling with a two-thirds majority.

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  Keen to discourage horse-trading in the assembly and to promote a democratic tradition in the region, Pakistan occupied Kashmirs (PoK) Prime Minister Sardar Yaqoob Khan has resigned from his post. ANI

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  Published on: 1/8/2009    Last Visited: 2/25/2009  

  As expected, Sardar Attique has left after accusing the federal government of interfering in the politics of Azad Kashmir, warning it of instability in the region.
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  Sardar Attique's Muslim Conference has been in power since July 2001 when the government of the AJKPP was toppled after it was accused of moral impropriety and promoting graft.
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  It went to the discredit of Prime Minister Sardar Attique that many people fraudulently received house-building compensation many times over while a large number of the deserving remained deprived.
  
  The recent anti-India surge in Pakistan has served well neither Sardar Attique nor his intellectually conceived policy over the Indian-held Jammu & Kashmir.
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  Sardar Attique, who had in recent weeks become an increasingly controversial figure, was known as a supporter of former president Pervez Musharraf. He had also been accused of corruption. His ouster came about as a forward bloc within his own Muslim Conference joined hands with opposition parties to deliver an overwhelming vote of no confidence.
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  Sardar Attique greeted the new prime minister setting a good tradition of parliamentary behaviour.
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  The vote in the 49-seat assembly was denounced by Sardar Attique, who accused the federal government in Islamabad of orchestrating his ouster. However, the truth is more complex. The prime minister's downfall began when he alienated a faction of the MC supported by Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan, former prime minister and president of AJK. The complaints of the MC rebels read like a typical political chargesheet: corruption, inefficiency, arbitrary decision-making, sidelining the cabinet, spending too much time away from the capital, etc. Were it not for the rebel group, Sardar Attique's government, which had a comfortable majority in the AJK assembly, would have faced no threat.
  
  Yet it is also apparent that the no-confidence vote succeeded because the PPAJK, which has seven seats, supported it. In the end, the 25 votes (32 including the PPAJK) mustered by Mr Attique's opponents were numerically enough in the 49-seat assembly, but it was the PPAJK's addition that had a galvanising effect on the opposition.

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  "Pakistan has always been committed to extending political, moral and diplomatic support to the people of Kashmir in their struggle for self-determination", President Zardari said this while talking to AJK Prime Minister Sardar Attique Khan who called on him at presidential house in Islamabad today.

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  Mr. Sardar Ahmed Khan
  
  Coordinator

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  Published on: 7/16/2004    Last Visited: 7/16/2004  

  Attique may become AJK senior minister
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  Over the past three years, Mr Attique said, he had been persistently asked to become senior minister but he had always declined.
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  The dissidents frequently refer to an agreement which they say was brokered by Sardar Attique and guaranteed by the 'powers that be' to end the crisis in the ruling party triggered by the resignations of four ministers and a parliamentary secretary in February.
  
  The agreement, according to them, says that the ministers and parliamentary secretary who had resigned would be taken back, expansion of cabinet would be done in consultation with the AJK president and MC president and either the post of speaker or senior minister would be given to the dissidents.
  
  Talking to Dawn at a function on Tuesday evening, the premier had said that although he could change the senior minister, but replacing the speaker was beyond his authority.
  
  Answering a question, he said the cabinet would be expanded soon.At the press conference, Sardar Attique told reporters that the problems (in the party and the government) would be amicably solved in a couple of days.

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