Haider Zaman Khan
| Sardar Haider Zaman Khan | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Pakistan Muslim League (Jinnah) |
| Profession | Ex. Nazim (counselor) of Abbottabad District |
| Religion | Islam |
Baba Haider Zaman is a political personality of Hazara,KP, Pakistan.He got fame after launching a protest compaign against changing the name of Sarhad Province. In 2010,the whole political leadership of Hazara Division was united under his guidance and a demand of separate province Suba Hazara was strengthened by a division-wide prostest. He is a former Provincial Minister and District Nazim of Abbottabad.
During his tenure as nazim he shot to prominence for opposing the renaming of the NWFP to Pakhtunkhwa. He criticised the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, for referring to the province as Pakhtunkhwa - saying this was unconstitutional and done to please coalition partners.[1]
Zaman said he was in contact with the nazims of the southern districts and all five nazims of the erstwhile Hazara Division opposed the name change. If the district was renamed in line with the proposal from the Awami National Party then, according to Zaman, a creation of a Hazara Province would be justified.[1]
He was also involved in a petition against the provincial government of the NWFP claiming that they were curtailing the powers of district government.[2] In March 2006, five months after a devastating earthquake struck the region, Zaman said repatriation of people from tent villages (set up in the aftermath of the earthquake) might be held up due to lack of resources possessed by the district governments.[3] That year he also supported an initiative to raise awareness of the effects of the earthquake.[4]
In 2007 he criticised Pakistani tour operators for the way the organised the Hajj and Umrah arrangements for pilgrims in Saudi Arabia, he also claimed that the tour operators were fleecing pilgrims and pilgrims were unable to get rid of greedy tour managers.[5]
In 2010 following the renaming of the North-West Frontier Province, Khan has again been prominent by his opposition to the new name, he became the head of the Action Committee for Hazara province - he stated that the new name of the province is on an ethnic basis and so deprived the people of Hazara of their identity.[6] In August 2010 Khan stated that the people of Hazara would stop payments of utility bills until their demands were met.[7]
References
- 1 2 Abbottabad nazim demands referendum
- ↑ PHC issues notice to NWFP govt in district nazims’ petition - Daily Times
- ↑ Return of quake survivors from tent villages begins
- ↑ Competition on "Earthquake a Disaster or Challenge"
- ↑ ABBOTTABAD: Haj, Umrah tour operators berated
- ↑ NWFP’s renaming
- ↑ 'Formation of Hazara province inevitable'