Haider Zaman Khan

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| profession= Ex. [[Nazim]] (counselor) of Abbottabad District Ex. [[Minister (government)|Minister]] in NWFP Assembly
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'''Baba Haider Zaman''' (1934 – 24 October 2018) was a political personality of [[Hazara District|Hazara]], KP, [[Pakistan]]. He was known for [[Hazara province movement]], a protest campaign against changing the name of [[Sarhad Province]]. Baba joined Hazara Qumai mahaz on 17 January 2009 for supporting late Asif Malik cause of Hazara province. In 2010, the whole political leadership of [[Hazara Division]] was united under his guidance and a demand of separate [[Hazara Province]] was strengthened by a division-wide protest. He was previously a Provincial Minister and District Nazim of Abbottabad.

== Biography ==
Haider Zaman Khan was born in the [[Dewal Manal]] village of [[Abbottabad District]] in 1934 to the [[Karlal]] tribe. He completed his FA in the 1950s and joined the Pakistan Air Force. After retirement, he entered politics in 1962 but failed to win a provincial seat. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.samaa.tv/news/2018/10/haider-zaman-khans-journey-from-sardar-to-baba/|title = Haider Zaman Khan's journey from Sardar to Baba | SAMAA}}</ref>

His first political win was when he got elected to the NWFP assembly from Abbottabad in 1985. The then chief minister Arbab Jehangir Khan appointed Zaman as the labour and human resource minister in his cabinet.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.samaa.tv/news/2018/10/haider-zaman-khans-journey-from-sardar-to-baba/|title = Haider Zaman Khan's journey from Sardar to Baba | SAMAA}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Tnews">{{cite web|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=148619|title=The News International: Latest News Breaking, Pakistan News|website=www.thenews.com.pk}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Tnews"/>

He was also involved in a petition against the provincial government of the NWFP claiming that they were curtailing the powers of district government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C11%5C26%5Cstory_26-11-2008_pg7_42|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723214506/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C11%5C26%5Cstory_26-11-2008_pg7_42|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-23|title=Daily Times|website=Daily Times}} </ref> In March 2006, five months after a [[2005 Kashmir earthquake|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pakquake.com/return-of-quake-survivors-from-tent-villages-begins.html|title=Return of quake survivors from tent villages begins|publisher=|access-date=2008-12-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705095424/http://www.pakquake.com/return-of-quake-survivors-from-tent-villages-begins.html|archive-date=2008-07-05|url-status=dead}}</ref> That year he also supported an initiative to raise awareness of the effects of the earthquake.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sungi.org/schoolscompetition.asp|title=Competition on "Earthquake a Disaster or Challenge"|publisher=}}</ref>

In 2007 he criticised Pakistani tour operators for the way they 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/2007/06/16/local30.htm|title=ABBOTTABAD: Haj, Umrah tour operators berated|first=Rashid|last=Javed|date=16 June 2007|publisher=}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=234555|title=The News International: Latest News Breaking, Pakistan News|website=www.thenews.com.pk}}</ref> In August 2010 Khan stated that the people of Hazara would stop payments of utility bills until their demands were met.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Lahore/16-Aug-2010/Formation-of-Hazara-province-inevitable|title='Formation of Hazara province inevitable'|publisher=|access-date=2010-09-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819050002/http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Lahore/16-Aug-2010/Formation-of-Hazara-province-inevitable|archive-date=2010-08-19|url-status=dead}}</ref> He died on 24 October 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/384966-baba-haider-zaman-passes-away-at-82|title=Baba Haider Zaman passes away at 82|publisher=}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Hazara province movement]]
== References ==
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[[Category:People from Abbottabad]]
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[[Category:Pakistan Muslim League (J) politicians]]

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