| Malik Ghulam Mustafa | |
| Order: | 14th & 16th Governor of Punjab |
| Native Name Lang: | ur |
| Term Start1: | 10 March 1975 |
| Term End1: | 15 July 1975 |
| Predecessor1: | Sadiq Hussain Qureshi |
| President1: | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry |
| Successor1: | Mohammad Abbas Abbasi |
| Predecessor2: | Attiqur Rahman |
| President2: | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry |
| Successor2: | Sadiq Hussain Qureshi |
| Party: | Pakistan Muslim League (N) (2022–present)[1] |
| Otherparty: | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (2017–2022)[2] Pakistan Muslim League (F) (2012–2017)[3] Pakistan Muslim League (N) (2008–2012) Pakistan Muslim League Q (2002–2008) Pakistan Muslim League (N) (1997–2002) Pakistan Peoples Party (1988–1997) National Peoples Party (1977–1988) Pakistan Peoples Party (1969–1977) Pakistan Muslim League (1962–1969) |
| Birth Date: | 2 August 1937 |
| Birth Place: | Sanawan, Punjab, British India |
| Nationality: | Pakistani |
| Spouse: | [4] [5] |
| Children: | Aamina Haq (daughter) |
| Relatives: | Ghulam Rabbani Khar (brother) Malik Ghulam Arbi Khar (brother) Safina Saima Khar (sister-in-law) Raza Rabbani Khar (nephew) Hina Rabbani Khar (niece) |
| Alma Mater: | Aitchison College |
| Term Start2: | 23 December 1971 |
| Term End2: | 12 November 1973 |
| Order3: | 6th Chief Minister of Punjab |
| Term Start3: | 12 November 1973 |
| Term End3: | 15 March 1974 |
| Primeminister3: | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
| Governor3: | Sadiq Hussain Qureshi |
| Predecessor3: | Malik Meraj Khalid |
| Successor3: | Hanif Ramay |
Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar (Urdu: {{Nastaliq|غلام مصطفى کھر; born 2 August 1937) is a Pakistani politician and feudal lord who has previously served as the Chief Minister of Punjab and Governor of Punjab.
He was born on 2 August 1937 in Sanawan in Kot Addu, Punjab to a wealthy landlord family belonging to the Kharclan, of the larger Kharal tribe. From his maternal side, he is a descendant of Khawaja Suleman Taunsvi of Taunsa Sharif.[6]
He received his education from Aitchison College, Lahore.[7]
Ghulam Mustafa Khar won his first National Assembly election in 1962 at the age of 24. He remained on posts of Minister of Water and Power, Chief Minister and Governor. In 1967, Khar joined Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as one of the founding members of the Pakistan Peoples Party as a close personal friend and political ally. He was appointed Governor and Martial Law Administrator of Punjab, the most electorally powerful province in the country by the newly sworn in President Bhutto following the collapse of Yahya Khan's military government. When the 1973 constitution was adopted in August and Bhutto became Prime Minister of Pakistan, Khar was given the portfolio of Chief Minister of Punjab Province.[8]
Thanks to complaints from within the PPP, Khar was replaced by the far more left-leaning and intellectual Hanif Ramay. Khar was briefly reappointed Governor in March 1975 before being finally dismissed in July 1975. Bhutto's suspicions over Khar's ambitions as well as the deep divisions within the PPP in the Punjab led to his refusal to allow Khar to run for Ramay's seat in Lahore. Khar's attempts to run for the seat as an independent ended in failure. By 1976, former rivals within the PPP, Khar and Ramay were working together within the Pir of Pagaro's Pakistan Muslim League (F). However, his relations with Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto briefly improved as he was appointed Special Assistant to the Prime Minister in 1977.[9]
In April 2017, he joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and he is considered to be on the left-wing of the PTI.[10]
Khar has been married eight times.[11] One of Khar's marriages was to Tehmina Durrani, a Pakistani women's rights activist and author. Her first book, My Feudal Lord, released by Vanguard Books of Lahore in June 1991, caused controversy in Pakistan's society by describing her abusive and traumatic marriage to Ghulam Mustafa Khar.[12]
His daughter Aaminah Haq is a Pakistani model and actress noted as a Lux model and for her role in the television drama Mehndi.
Hina Rabbani Khar, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, is the daughter of his brother Ghulam Noor Rabbani.[13]
His son, Bilal Mustafa Khar was accused by his former wife Fakhra Younus of pouring acid over her face. Later, his son was acquitted of the charges. Four witnesses who testified to seeing his son enter Fakhra's home on the day of the attack complained of receiving death threats; they later retracted their statements due to the seriousness of the threats. In December 2003, judge dismissed the charges. Khar continued to protest his son's innocence, claiming the perpetrator was a pimp with whom his wife had been having an affair.[14]
“Pakistan’s role in Muslim world” in the book Re-emerging Muslim World edited by Zahid Malik, published by Pakistan National Centre in 1974.