Sardar Mehtab Abbasi | |
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27th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
In office 15 April 2014[1] – 8 February 2016 | |
President | Mamnoon Hussain |
Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
Preceded by | Shaukatullah Khan |
Succeeded by | Iqbal Zafar Jhagra |
Minister of Railways | |
In office 2008–2008 | |
Prime Minister | Yusuf Raza Gilani |
Constituency | N.A-17 Abbottabad-1 |
Member of the Senate of Pakistan | |
In office 2003–2008 | |
Prime Minister | Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Shaukat Aziz |
Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
In office 21 February 1997 – 12 October 1999 | |
President | Muhammad Rafiq Tarar |
Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
Governor | Miangul Aurangzeb |
Preceded by | Raja Sikander Zaman |
Succeeded by | Akram Khan Durrani |
Personal details | |
Born | Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan Abbasi 13 January 1953 Malkot, NWFP, Pakistan |
Political party | AP (2024-present)[2] |
Other political affiliations | PMLN (1993-2023) |
Relations | Sardar Fareed Ahmed Khan Abbasi (cousin) |
Children | Sardar Shamoon Yar Khan (son) |
Alma mater | Government High School, Murree Sir Sayyad College, Rawalpindi |
Occupation | Politician |
Profession | Lawyer |
Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan Abbasi (Urdu/Hindko: سردار مہتاب احمد خان عباسی; born 13 January 1953) is a Pakistani politician from Abbottabad who began his political career as an independent candidate in the 1985 election. He won seats in both the provincial and national assembly. He also won all subsequent elections up to that of 2013.
Sardar Mehtab served as Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan from 2014 to 2016, Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 1997 to 1999, and Federal Minister for Railways in 2008.[3] He is politically affiliated with the Pakistan Muslim League (N). He served as a senator for five years beginning in March 2003, until he won the NA-17 Abbottabad-I seat for the National Assembly of Pakistan in the 2008 general election.