Iqbal Tikka

Iqbal Tikka
Iqbal Tikka
اقبال ٹقا
Personal details
Citizenship Pakistan Pakistani
Residence Lahore, Punjab
Religion Islam (Sunni)

Iqbal Tikka (Urdu, Punjabi: اقبال ٹقا ) is a Pakistani politician.

Family background

Tikka was born to Punjabi Muslim parents of Naru Rajput background, in a family of six brothers and three sisters, of whom he is the fifth eldest by order. His family originally came from the town of Hariana in Hoshiarpur district and after the partition of India in 1947, was one of many to migrate to Pakistan.

His father Tikka Muhammad Khan he was a well-known landlord who settled in the town of Arifwala in the Pakpattan District of Punjab, Pakistan.

Political career

Mr. Tikka was nominated by the former President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf to replace Lieutenant General (retd) Khalid Maqbool as the Governor of Punjab (Pakistan) but the scheduled replacement was postponed due to suicide attacks on the president's convoy on December 25, 2003.[1] Later in December 2007, Mr. Tikka in a surprising turn of events filed a petition in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the 3rd November 2007 actions of General Pervez Musharraf that had come in the form of a Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO). He claimed that the army chief had no legal authority to impose an emergency in the country or suspend the constitution, stating that the imposition of a national emergency was the president's prerogative. A judgement was given against it thus rendering a quasi-legal validation to the PCO.[2][3]

Mr. Tikka also held a very close association with the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and was appointed Provincial Minister in Punjab in the 1988 government of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Senior Federal Minister in its 1993 government. Earlier he served Benazir Bhutto's father, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as his personal advisor with the status of a senior minister in the 1971 and 1977 governments of the PPP.

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