He was the 9th Chief Minister of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (then called Northwest Frontier Province).
[2] He was born in the village of Rehana which is located in the Haripur District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
A member of the Muslim League in the province, he was elected to the NWFP Legislative Assembly from the Haripur Central constituency in a by-election in the winter of 1939.
Bahadur Khan served as Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan from 8 November 1954 – 19 July 1955.
After the 1962 elections, he became Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Pakistan during the government of President Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan.