Hayat Sherpao
Politician
Hayat Mohammad Khan Sherpao (Urdu: حيات محمد خان شيرپاؤ; 1 February 1937 – 8 February 1975), simply known as Hayat Sherpao, was a notable left-wing intellectual and socialist, serving as the fifteenth Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan, as well as vice-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party. Sherpao held important executive offices, including served as the Interior minister and hold numbers provincial ministries of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province. Co-founding the Pakistan People's Party with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1967, Sherpao took the responsibility to governed the Kyber Province in a difficult times when the country had lost the East-Pakistan as a result of 1971 Winter war with rival India. As governor, he oversaw the re-constitution of provisional assembly, stabilising the law and order situation in tribal belt, and overseeing the success of covert operations in Afghanistan Soviet Socialist Republic in 1975. His governorship and Sherpao himself tackled and faced intense communist opposition led by Asfandyiar Vali, and was assassinated in a targeted bomb explosion on the campus of Peshawar University in 1975.
Personal facts
| Birth date | February 01, 1937 |
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| Birth name | Hayat Mohammad Khan Sherpao |
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| Birth place | North-West Frontier Province (1901–55) , Peshawar , Sherpao , British Raj |
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| Date of death | February 05, 1975 |
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| Place of death | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Pakistan , Peshawar |
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| Resting place | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Hayatabad |
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| Education | Islamia College University |
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