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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 ...
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
Below is a list of chief commissioners of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of British India, from the creation of the office in 1901 until 1932. Chief Commissioners of the North-West Frontier Province
3: Sardar Aurang Zeb Khan: 25 May 1943 16 March 1945 1 Year, 10 Months and 21 Days All-India Muslim League: George Cunningham: 4: Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan [2] [3] (2nd time) : 16 March 1945
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.
In the Republic of India, a chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-eight states and three of the eight union territories. According to the Constitution of India , at the state level, the governor is de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister.
The former North-West Frontier Province (1901–2010). Pages in category "North-West Frontier Province" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.