Omer Hayat is an ex Army officer who served in the fighting Arm for about 13 years and developed the instinctive quality of companionship to work as a team and team leader for common objectives and displaying a higher degree of self-sacrifice for the greater good of others. However he always felt uncomfortable in the atmosphere where the civil liberties were relegated to lesser priority. With that backdrop, in civil life he remained social and a human rights activist.
He first formed an organization by the name of Ex-Servicemen League in 1980s and voiced to protect the rights and civil liberties of ex-employees from the Govt and became well organized in AJK and got merged later in a central bigger outfit. In the same period of time when despotic rule was casting its dark shadows in the length and breadth of country, he formed an organization titled as Pak-Kashmir Human Rights Organization and mobilized the civil society by convening conferences, seminars and organizing workshops which were attended by high profile intellectuals and diplomats, He remained active member of many social fora and vocal advocate of women emancipation, citizen and labor rights and climate change. He raised his voice extensively on social media against child labor, child molestation and all sorts of discrimination in the society. He has been part of several nonprofit organizations before proceeding abroad on employment. He is a member of many social media groups and he is a staunch advocate of interfaith harmony and intersociety discourse.
He had a greater exposure working in multinational overseas companies in the Gulf. Omer holds bachelor degrees in economics, political science and English language. Born in Tain, at age 75, he is still in very high spirits and zeal to pay back to society. He also played a marvelous role in establishing TDF and presently, he is Patron in Chief of the organization.