Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao

Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao (born August 20, 1944 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province ) was the Interior Minister of Pakistan and chairman of the QWP from 2004 to 2007 .

Life

Sherpao attended Edwardes College in Peshawar and reached the officer rank of major in his twelve-year military career . After the murder of his older brother Hayat Muhammad Khan Sherpao in an explosion in 1975, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao entered the political arena. The then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto , urged him to end his military career early and shortly thereafter made him vice-president of the Pakistani People's Party at the provincial level. After the death of his political mentor Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, he fully supported his daughter Benazir Bhutto and her fight against the military dictatorship of General Zia-ul-Haq . He was a key figure in the Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD). In the 1988 provincial assembly elections, he campaigned for the defeat of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML), which was supported by the establishment, and became the provincial prime minister. He took a strongly nationalist line in order to calm down the nationalist forces hostile to his party and expanded his base to include the strongholds of the nationalist forces. He was elected Prime Minister of the Northwest Province in 1994. In the 1990s, however, he developed major differences with Benazir Bhutto . A group emerged in his party, the PPP (Sherpao). He fled to the UK in 2002 when allegations of corruption were made against him. He returned after the 2002 elections and was elected to the provincial and national assemblies after forging alliances with religious parties . His successor was Hamid Nawaz Khan.

Web links

• Profile on na.gov.pk (website of the National Assembly of Pakistan )
• CV on onepakistan.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao ( memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on elections.com.pk
2. ↑ Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao on Pakistan Herald