Honorific-Prefix: | Chief Justice |
Abdul Hakeem Khan | |
Honorific-Suffix: | Retired |
Office: | Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court |
Term Start: | 1 November 1976 |
Term End: | 3 October 1979 |
Term Start1: | 5 July 1977 |
Term End1: | 17 September 1978 |
President1: | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq |
Predecessor1: | Naseerullah Khan Babar |
Successor1: | Fazle Haq |
Birth Name: | Abdul Hakeem Khan |
Birth Date: | Actual 11 September 1918 Official 4 Oct 1917 |
Death Place: | Islamabad, Pakistan |
Spouse: | Ghulam Fatima |
Children: | 10 |
Relatives: | [Dr Nayyar Ramzan and Hazrat Sultan Brothers, Mufti Muhammad Idris and Maj Fazal ur Rahman brother in laws. Sons Lt Col Abdul Quddus Retd, Late Justice Abdul Rauf Lughmani and Brig Asad Hakeem Retd ] |
Abdul Hakeem Khan Swati was a former governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan and former Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court.[1] [2] He belongs to Swati tribe of Baffa, the largest Union Council of Mansehra District. He was appointed the Governor of North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) when General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq imposed Martial Law on 5 July 1977 and appointed all provincial Chief justices as governors of respective provinces. Khan died on 4 January 2007, aged 90.[3] He belonged to Lughmani family of the Sarkheli subsection of Swati tribe.