Iqbal Khan Jadoon Explained

Iqbal Khan Jadoon
Birth Place:Abbottabad, Pakistan
Death Date:1984 (aged 53)
Office:7th Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province
Term Start:April 9, 1977
Term End:July 5, 1977
Predecessor:Nasrullah Khan Khattak
Successor:Arbab Jehangir Khan
Party:Pakistan People's Party
Governor:Naseerullah Babar

Mohammed Iqbal Khan Jadoon (1931–1977) was a Pakistani politician from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. He was born in Abbottabad in 1931. Jadoon was the 7th elected Chief Minister of the province from the 9 April 1977 to 5 July 1977.[1] [2] [3] He died in 1984 in London age 53 . He was given the title "pride of hazara" for his numerous contributions to the betterment of the people of kpk and Pakistan.The attendance at his funeral was more than fifty thousand people. People of kpk observed a 3 day mourning as a mark of respect. His hall mark was that he never used any government resources and preferred his own. Even as a minister he rented a house in Peshawar and used his own cars, servants etc.He represented the people at various elected posts from 1964 to 1977.His wife survived him and died in Abbottabad in 2019.[4]

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  1. News: Religious parties to rule NWFP a second time. Report. Bureau. 2002-10-20. DAWN.COM. 2018-07-04. en-US.
  2. News: Khattak sworn in as 16th KPK CM. 2013-06-01. The Nation. 2018-07-04. en-US.
  3. News: PML-N in hot water in Abbottabad. Javed. Rashid. 2002-09-20. DAWN.COM. 2018-07-04. en-US.
  4. News: Wife of former CM passes away . 10 December 2023 . Dawn . 17 October 2019.