Nationality: | Pakistani Kashmiri |
Party: | IPP (2023-present) |
Office: | Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir |
Order: | 14th |
Predecessor: | Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi |
Successor: | Chaudhry Anwar-ul-Haq |
Termstart: | 18 April 2022 |
Profession: | Businessman and Politician |
Citizenship: | Pakistan |
Birth Place: | Azad Kashmir, Pakistan |
Residence: | Rawalakot and Islamabad |
Termend: | 11 April 2023 |
President: | Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry |
Office1: | Member of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly |
Termstart1: | 3 August 2021 |
Termend1: | 11 April 2023 |
Constituency1: | LA-15 Bagh-II |
Office2: | President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Azad Jammu and Kashmir |
Office3: | President of Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party Azad Jammu and Kashmir |
Termend2: | 24 April 2023 |
Termstart2: | 9 September 2021 |
Term Start3: | 12 August 2023 |
President3: | Aleem Khan |
1Blankname2: | Chairman |
1Namedata2: | Imran Khan |
Predecessor2: | Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry |
Successor2: | Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi |
Otherparty: | PTI (2018-2023) |
Successor1: | Sardar Ziaul Qamar |
Native Name Lang: | ur |
Native Name: | سردار محمد تنویر الیاس خان |
Sardar Muahmmad Tanveer Ilyas Khan is a Pakistani businessman-turned-politician who was the Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir from April 2022 to April 2023, and was the president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Azad Kashmir from September 2021 to April 2023.[1]
He was born in the village of Bangoin near Rawalakot, Azad Kashmir, into a political family, as his late uncle Sardar Sagheer Chughtai has been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from their native constituency.[2]
He is the owner of The Centaurus and Taj Residencia housing project the largest shopping mall in Islamabad.[3]
He has served as advisor on investment to the Chief Minister of Punjab.
He was elected to the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly from LA-15 Bagh-II as a candidate of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the 2021 Azad Kashmiri general election. He received 19,825 votes and defeated Sardar Ziaul Qamar, a candidate of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP).[4]
On 18 April 2022, Ilyas was elected as the 14th Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, succeeding Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi, who resigned after the PTI initiated a vote of no confidence against the latter.[5]
On 11 April 2023, Ilyas was disqualified from being a member of the legislative assembly when he was found guilty of contempt of court by the High Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Thus, he ceased to hold the office of the AJK prime minister.[6] [7]