Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan (born June 1, 1934) was twice a former Prime Minister and President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir

Azad Kashmir

Azad Jammu and Kashmir or Azad Kashmir for short, is the southernmost political entity within the Pakistani-administered part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir...

. He has been the longest serving Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan was born into an eminent political family of Kashmir , he is the son of Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi

Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi

Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi was born into a Domaal Tribe in Karela Majhan Mendhar Poonch, son of Sardar Feroze Khan Domaal. He joined the Poonch police service as a sergeant but resigned, and began to play an active political role under the Muslim Conference of Jammu and Kashmir...

, a name synonymous with one of the first major uprisings against the repressive Dogra

Dogra

The Dogras are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group in South Asia. Being a diversified group, the Dogras include both Savarnas such as Brahmins, Rajputs and Non-savarnas. The Dogras also incluide merchant castes such as Mahajans...

 regime in 1931. It was Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi

Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi

Sardar Fateh Muhammad Khan Karelvi was born into a Domaal Tribe in Karela Majhan Mendhar Poonch, son of Sardar Feroze Khan Domaal. He joined the Poonch police service as a sergeant but resigned, and began to play an active political role under the Muslim Conference of Jammu and Kashmir...

, who led the popular agitation against an arbitrary tax on salt imposed by the Maharaja's regime.