Haider Zaman Khan

Baba Haider Zaman (1934 24 October 2018) was a Hazarewal politician from the Hazara region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.

Zaman said he was in contact with the nazims of the southern districts and all five nazims of the erstwhile Hazara Division opposed the name change. If the district was renamed in line with the proposal from the Awami National Party then, according to Zaman, a creation of a Hazara Province would be justified.

He was also involved in a petition against the provincial government of the NWFP claiming that they were curtailing the powers of district government. In March 2006, five months after a devastating earthquake struck the region, Zaman said repatriation of people from tent villages (set up in the aftermath of the earthquake) might be held up due to lack of resources possessed by the district governments. That year he also supported an initiative to raise awareness of the effects of the earthquake.

In 2007, he criticised Pakistani tour operators for the way they organised the Hajj and Umrah arrangements for pilgrims in Saudi Arabia, he also claimed that the tour operators were fleecing pilgrims and pilgrims were unable to get rid of greedy tour managers.

In 2010, following the renaming of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Khan was again prominent by his opposition to the new name, he became the head of the Action Committee for Hazara province he stated that the new name of the province is on an ethnic basis and so deprived the people of Hazara of their identity.

Death Baba Haider Zaman Khan died on 24 October 2018 at age 84. and was buried in his home village. He was hospitalized for a few days before his death.