Arbab Sikandar Khan Khalil (Urdu: ارباب سکندر خان خلیل) (1911–1982) was a Governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
He was a senior leader in the National Awami Party, which won the 1970 elections in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan and later formed the provincial governments.
In post-partition events, the office of a renowned Hindu legal professional Mela Ram Advocate was allotted to him by the evacuee trust.
His father Arbab Saadat Ali Khan was a Red Shirt leader, who was arrested in connection to Qissa Khwani Bazaar massacre in 1930 and died in 1932 in Hari Pur Prison.
Another major reason for joining the Muslim League was that Arbab Sikandar and his cousin, after the 1940’s Pakistan Resolution in Lahore, supported the idea of partition.
In his letter to Arbab Sikandar, the then-President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto spelled out the terms for the coalition, such as ensuring the equal treatment of all inhabitants in the province, taking steps that fell within the constitutional jurisdiction of the central government, and not complicating foreign relations due to any adverse actions.
President Bhutto had not wanted him back but Arbab Sikandar was insistent on the return of the one who was "the Frontier's best-loved figure".
On 12 March 1979, Arbab Sikandar Khan Khalil at Sherbaz Mazari's residence in Karachi, told DAWN newspaper's reporters that the people of Pakistan would never tolerate superpowers hegemony.
On 7 March 1982, a man called Muhammad Tahir shot Arbab Sikandar Khan Khalil while he was on his routine walk in the fields of his village Tehkal Bala.
A week after the murder of Arbab Sikandar Khan Khalil, a demonstration was planned by the banned National Democratic Party (NDP) to mourn the death.
[6] President Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq's cabinet at a meeting in Rawalpindi on 13 March condemned the killing and promised exemplary punishment for those responsible.
The bridge named in the memory of the senior party leader, late Arbab Sikandar serves to enhance the existing transportation facilities by sharing the load of traffic on busy GT Road[7] https://amntv.org/mian-iftikhar-hussain-new-speech-ex-governor-arbab-sikandar-khan-khalil-death-anniversary/