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{{Short description|26th governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa}}
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| name = Khalilur Rehman
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| order = [[Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]]
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| term_start = 13 March 2005
| term_end = 23 May 2006
| president = [[Pervez Musharraf]]
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| predecessor = Lt-Gen. [[Iftikhar Hussain Shah|Iftikhar Hussain]]
| successor = Lt-Gen. [[Ali Jan Aurakzai]]
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| order2 = [[Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan]]
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| term_start2 = 2003
| term_end2 = 2006
| predecessor2 = [[Mir Humayun Khan Marri|Humayun Khan]]
| successor2 = [[Jan Mohammad Jamali|J.M. Jamali]]
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| birth_name = Khalil-ur-Rahman
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1934|05|05}}
| birth_place = [[Peshawar]], [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–2010)|North-West Frontier Province]], [[British Indian Empire|British India]] {{small|(Present-day in [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa]] in [[Pakistan]])}}
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| allegiance = {{PAK}}
| branch = [[File:Naval Jack of Pakistan.svg|20px]][[Pakistan Navy]]
| serviceyears = 1954–88
| rank = [[File:Captain Pakistan Navy Insignia.JPG|10px]][[File:US-O6 insignia.svg|20px]][[Captain (Naval)|Captain]] {{small|([[Pakistan Navy|PN No. 543]])}}<ref name="The Gazette of Pakistan">{{cite book|title=The Gazette of Pakistan|date=1978|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LtPAQAAMAAJ&q=+khalil+ur+Rehman|accessdate=27 February 2018|language=en|author1=Pakistan}}</ref>
| unit = [[Pakistan Navy#Branches|Operations Branch]]
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| battles = [[Indo-Pakistan War of 1965]] [[Indo-Pakistan War of 1971]] 
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[[Captain (naval)|Captain]] '''Khalilur Rehman''' ({{lang-ur|خلیل الرحمن}}  b. 5 May 1934) {{small|[[Hilal-e-Imtiaz|HI(m)]]}}, best known as '''Commander Khalil''',<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, etl.al, 2005" /> is a retired [[naval officer]] in the [[Pakistan Navy]] who served as the [[Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa]], appointed in 2005 until being replaced in 2006.<ref name="Dawn Newspaper, Khan, 2006">{{cite news|last1=Khan|first1=Ismail|title=NWFP Governor Khalil being replaced|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/193450|accessdate=27 February 2018|work=DAWN.COM|agency=Dawn Newspaper|publisher=Dawn Newspaper, 2006|date=22 May 2006|location=Peshawar|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/2005/04/19/fea.htm|title=An uphill task|publisher=Dawn}}</ref>

In addition, he also commanded the [[Royal Bahrain Naval Force]] from 1976 until retiring from his military service in 1988 to pursue career in the politics.{{rp|1973}}<ref name="Author House, Anwar, 2006">{{cite book|last1=Anwar|first1=Cdre. Dr Muhammad|title=Stolen Stripes and Broken Medals: Autobiography of a Senior Naval Officer|date=2006|publisher=Author House|location=London, UK|isbn=9781467010566|pages=2000|edition=1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t4GLBLfW-YMC&dq=khalil+ur+rehman+governor+navy&pg=PA1973-IA1|accessdate=27 February 2018|language=en-uk|format=googlebooks|chapter={{small|§Early Years in the Pakistan Navy}}}}</ref>

==Biography==
Khalilur Rehman was born in a Surezai, a small village, located in the vicinity of the [[Peshawar District]], [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–2010)|North-West Frontier Province]] in [[British Indian Empire|India]] on 5 May 1934.<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, etl.al, 2005">{{cite news |title=Khalil made new NWFP governor: Iftikhar's resignation accepted|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1067190|accessdate=27 February 2018|work=Dawn.com |publisher=Dawn Newspapers|date=13 March 2005|location=Islamabad|language=en-pk}}</ref> He was educated at the [[Edwardes College]] before joining the [[Pakistan Navy]] in 1954.<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, etl.al, 2005"/> He is of [[Hindkowans|Hindkowan]] background.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/996457/tongue-twister-minister-reiterates-governments-commitment-to-promote-hindko/|title=Tongue twister: Minister reiterates government's commitment to promote Hindko|work=The Express Tribune|date=23 November 2015|accessdate=10 August 2019|first=Hidayat|last=Khan}}</ref>

He did his initial military training at the [[Royal Naval College, Greenwich|Royal Naval College]] in [[Greenwich]], [[England]], where he secured his [[Bachelor of Science|BSc]] in [[Military communications|Communications]].<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, etl.al, 2005"/> In 1963–67, [[Lieutenant (naval)|Lieutenant]] Khalil served in the [[President Ayub Khan|Ayub administration]] as a staff officer.{{rp|66}}<ref name="Pakistan Publications">{{cite book|title=Pakistan Pictorial|date=2001|publisher=Pakistan Publications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ICduAAAAMAAJ&q=+khalil++|accessdate=27 February 2018|language=en}}</ref>

He served in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965|second war]] with [[India]] in 1965, and in [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|third war]] with India in 1971 where he served on the [[destroyer]] as an executive officer.<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, etl.al, 2005"/> In 1973, [[Commander (rank)|Commander]] Khalil commanded the [[USS Cone (DD-866)|PNS Alamgir]] until 1976 when he was selected to assume the command of the [[Royal Bahrain Naval Force]], which [[Captain (naval)|Captain]] Khalil commanded until 1988.{{rp|1973}}<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, etl.al, 2005" /><ref name="Author House, Anwar, 2006" /> In addition, he went to attend the [[Pakistan Naval War College|Naval War College]] in Lahore.{{rp|1973}}<ref name="Author House, Anwar, 2006" />
In 1988, [[Captain (naval)|Capt.]] Khalil served in the faculty of the [[Pakistan Naval War College|Naval War College]] but later resigned from his [[Commissioned officer|commission]] when he decided to play a role in [[Politics in Pakistan|national politics]], and surprised many when he won the elections for the [[Senate of Pakistan]] which he served until 2006 as an [[Independent (politician)|Independent]].<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, etl.al, 2005" />

==Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (2005-2006)==

On 13 March 2005, Khalil was appointed as the 25th [[Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] by then-[[President of Pakistan|President]] [[Pervez Musharraf]] when Lt-Gen. [[Iftikhar Hussain Shah|Iftikhar Hussain]] tendered his resignation.<ref name="Paktribune">{{cite news|title=Commander Khalilur Rehman appointed new Governor NWFP|url=http://paktribune.com/news/Commander-Khalilur-Rehman-appointed-new-Governor-NWFP-97399.html|accessdate=27 February 2018|work=Paktribune|agency=Paktribune|publisher=Paktribune|date=12 March 2005|language=en}}</ref>

However, his tenureship was cut short when [[Pervez Musharraf|President Musharraf]] decided to replace him with his loyal officer, Lt-Gen. [[Ali Jan Aurakzai]].<ref name="Dawn Newspaper, Khan, 2006" /> It was reportedly widely that Khalil had found it difficult to run province with an increasingly assertive military and 80,000 troops in the tribal region<ref name="Dawn Newspaper, Khan, 2006" /> On 23 May 2006, Khalil was eventually replaced by Lt-Gen. [[Ali Jan Aurakzai]] and retired from the politics.<ref name="Dawn Newspaper, Khan, 2006" />

==See also==
*[[Pakistan]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.dawn.com/news/193450 NWFP Governor Khalil being replaced]

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