Habibullah Khan Marwat (also known as Khan Habibullah Khan Marwat) (19 October 1901 - 5 December 1978) was a politician and former Peshawar High Court

Peshawar High Court

The Peshawar High Court is the highest judicial institution of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. It is situated at the provincial capital Peshawar.-History:...

 judge. In 1937, Habibullah Khan joined the Khaksar movement

Khaksars

The Khaksar movement was a  social movement based in Lahore, British India, established by Allama Mashriqi in 1931 to free India from the rule of the British Empire and establish a Hindu-Muslim government in India The word "Khaksar" is derived from the Persian language, Khak means dust, and Sar...

 and worked in the North West Frontier Province. He was Interior Minister of Pakistan during Ayub Khan's regime and later served two terms as Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan

Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan

The current Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan is Farooq Naek since 12 March, 2009.The first Chairman of the Senate was Justice Khan Habibullah Khan Marwat.-History:...

 during Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977, and prior to that, 4th President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973. Bhutto was the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party — the largest and most influential political party in Pakistan— and served as its chairman until his...

's administration.

Career

Habibullah Khan graduated from Aligarh Muslim University

Aligarh Muslim University

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. He then opted for a career in law and became the first District and Sessions Judge of Peshawar High Court in 1947.
Habibullah Khan started his political career when he was appointed as the Interior Minister of Pakistan in 1962, when General Ayub Khan was formally declared as the President of Pakistan

President of Pakistan

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. He continued in this post till 1965, when Ayub Khan himself took the portfolio of Interior Minister, then known as Home Affairs Minister. Habibullah Khan was the first Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan

Senate of Pakistan

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 from 6 August 1973 till 5 August 1975 and consecutively elected Chairman for the second term of the Senate from 6 August 1975 till 4 July 1977, when martial law was imposed on the country by General

General

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 Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , was the 4th Chief Martial Law Administrator and the sixth President of Pakistan from July 1977 to his death in August 1988...

.

Acting President of Pakistan

Under the clause (2) of Article 49 of the Constitution of Pakistan

Constitution of Pakistan

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, Justice Habibullah Khan was the acting President of Pakistan from 1977–1978, when the President Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry

Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry

Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (Punjabi, ; (January 1, 1904 - June 2, 1982) was the fifth President of Pakistan from August 14, 1973 until his resignation on September 16, 1978.-Early life:...

went abroad for medical treatment.