Afrasiab Khattak

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Afrasiab Khattak (Pashto: افراسیاب خټک; Urdu: افراسياب خٹک) is a Pakistani socialist politician and political analyst who is a senior leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM). He formerly was a member of the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP).^[1] He has formerly served as the chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP),^[2] a member of the Senate of Pakistan (2009–2014), and the provincial president of the Awami National Party (ANP). He is an activist in the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM).

Khattak started his political activism against the dictator Ayub Khan because of his "one unit" formula in the 1968 but went to the Soviet Union to avoid the Great Purge authorised by the regime of General Zia-ul-Haq. Inspired by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Khattak joined the pro-Soviet Communist Party of Pakistan. He later joined the socialist National Awami Party in 1980 and later went into asylum in Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Khattak returned to Pakistan when General Zia-ul-Haq martial law ended after his plan crash. Khattak joined the Awami National Party, becoming the President of ANP's central secretariat based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and as well as chairman of the special standing committee senate.