Aslam Khattak

Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak, SPk (Pashto: محمد اسلم خان خټک) (Urdu: محمد اسلم خان خٹک) (5 April 1908 – 10 October 2008) was a Pakistani politician and diplomat[1] who was the Governor of North-West Frontier Province (nowKhyber Pakhtunkhwa) from 1973 to 1974.

[5][2] Aslam Khattak worked closely with Dr Khan Sahib in the North West Frontier Province's provincial government during his career as a civil servant, and after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, he was assigned a position in Afghanistan where he played a key role in the failed negotiations for a confederation between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

[2] He died, after a protracted illness, at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital, Islamabad on 10 October 2008 at age 100.

[1][2] Aslam Khattak spoke, read and wrote Pashtu, Urdu, Punjabi, Persian, Arabic, French and English.

[3] He stated that he did a journalism course from Brussels, and introduced freestyle essays in Pashtu literature in his booklet "Gul Masti".