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The 1st NWFP Legislative Council was established in 1932 and Abdul Qayyum was appointed the first and sole Minister of Transferred Departments. As a consequence of the Government of India Act 1935 , the NWFP status was upgraded to a governors' province, hence requiring a separate Legislative Assembly.
[3] Upon independence, he pledged his allegiance to Pakistan and later served as the First Chief Minister of West Pakistan. As the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Dr Khan Sahib along with his brother Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khudai Khidmatgars boycotted the July 1947 NWFP referendum about the province joining India or ...
Abdul Qayyum Khan was born in the State of Chitral but had Kashmiri origin. [2] His father, Khan Abdul Hakim, was originally from the Wanigam village in the Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir, [3] [4] [5] but worked as a Tehsildar in the North-West Frontier Province (N.W.F.P., now called Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan in 2017) of British India.
Chief Ministers of the North-West Frontier Province [7] Political party 1 April 1937 – 7 September 1937: Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Khan: Non-party government nominee 7 September 1937 – 10 November 1939: Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (1st time) Indian National Congress: 10 November 1939 – 25 May 1943: Governor's rule: 25 May 1943 – 16 March 1945
The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the head of the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is elected by the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for a maximum of five years. Parties
A Muslim League leader, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, was installed as the new Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province on 23 August 1947. [1] The new provincial government imprisoned the Khudai Khidmatgar movement's leader Abdul Ghaffar Khan , as well as the deposed Chief Minister Dr. Khan Sahib, and some other notable figures of the ...
The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the head of government of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The chief minister leads the legislative branch of the provincial government, and is elected by the Provincial Assembly. As long as she or he has the confidence of the assembly, a single term in office for the chief minister can ...
As part of the Government of India Act 1935, a limited male franchise was for the first time introduced in the North-West Frontier Province. In the 1937 elections, the Khudai Khidmatgars won in alliance with the Congress Party. Bacha Khan's brother Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (Dr. Khan Sahib) was elected as the Chief Minister of the NWFP. [citation ...