Sakhi Daler Khan
Indian army officer
Raja Sakhi Daler Khan (or Sakhi Delair Khan; 13 December 1924 – 16 September 1994) was an Indian Army officer. He led Pakistani troops and irregulars in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. Due to his major role in the liberation of the kotli of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the village of Sarsawa was subsequently renamed Sakhi Delair Abad in his honour.
Biography
Raja Sakhi Delair Khan was born in the village of Sarsawa, Kotli on 13 December 1924, to a Mangral Rajput family. He joined the Indian National Army. He resigned from his post and joined the All-India Muslim League on 6 June 1946. League leader Mohammad Ali Jinnah requested that he file a report about the current situation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Khan visited the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Ram Chandra Kak and the last ruling Maharrajah, Maharaja Hari Singh, to better understand their views on whether Jammu and Kashmir should join with Pakistan as laid out in the British proposal for post-Independence India and Pakistan. He reported back to Jinnah at his residence at Aurang Zaib Road, Delhi in 1946 that an alternative plan was required to liberate Jammu and Kashmir.
Khan tried to organise army veterans and recruit them for the fighting for Jammu and Kashmir by showing them a circular signed by Jinnah establishing a War Council on 5 September 1947.
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