Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao

Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao
آفتاب احمد خان شیرپاو
Chairman of Qaumi Watan Party
Assumed office
17 October 2012
Minister of Interior
In office
25 August 2004 – 15 November 2007
Prime MinisterShaukat Aziz
Preceded byFaisal Saleh Hayat
Succeeded byHamid Nawaz Khan (caretaker)
Minister for Water and Power
In office
2002–2004
Prime MinisterZafarullah Khan Jamali
Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province
In office
24 April 1994 – 12 November 1996
PresidentFarooq Leghari
Prime MinisterBenazir Bhutto
GovernorMaj.Gen. Khurshid Ali Khan
Lt.Gen. Arif Bangash
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
18 November 2002 – 31 May 2018
ConstituencyNA-8 (Charsadda-II)
Personal details
Born (1944-08-20) 20 August 1944 (age 79)[1]
Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India
NationalityPakistani
Political party Qaumi Watan Party (2008-present)
Other political
affiliations
PML-Q (2002–2008)
PPP (1988–2002)
RelationsHayat Muhammad Khan Sherpao (brother)
EducationEdwardes College Peshawar
Alma materLawrence College, Murree
Edwardes College
Pakistan Military Academy
Military service
AllegiancePakistan
Branch/service Pakistan Army
Years of service1965–1977
Rank Major
UnitProbyns Horse Regiment-Armoured Corps
Battles/warsIndo-Pakistani War of 1965
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao (Urdu: آفتاب احمد خان شیرپاو; born 20 August 1944) is a Pakistani politician who is the current chairman of the centre-left Pashtun nationalist Qaumi Watan Party, after previously being a member of the Pakistan Peoples Party. He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from November 2002 to May 2018.

Sherpao previously served as the Federal Interior Minister of Pakistan. He had earlier been the Federal Minister for Water and Power, Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas and States & Frontier Regions and Minister for Interprovincial Coordination. Sherpao has also served as the 14th and 18th Chief Minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

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