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Malik Sir Khizar Hayat Tiwana (1900-1975), KCSI, OBE, was a Punjabi politician of British India. He was a member of the Unionist Party (Punjab). He remained Premier of the Punjab region during 1942-47, just before the Partition and Independence of India and Pakistan.

He was from a Tiwana Rajput landowning family which had been prominent since the 15th-16th centuries AD. His father Malik Sir Umar Hayat Tiwana had also been a faithful vassal of the British Raj and did much to elevate the family further.

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Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana (right), Premier of the Punjab, with Sikh leader Master Tara Singh (centre), and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the All India Muslim League at the Simla Conference called by viceroy Lord Wavell in June 1945.

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