Baba-e-Afghan Abdul Rahim Khan Mandokhail (Pashto: عبدالرحيم خان مندوخېل) (12 January 1937 – 20 May 2017) was a Pashtun Afghan nationalist and politician who had been a member of the

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...

, the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan, and the Senate of Pakistan.

Early life and education

Baba-e-Afghan Abdul Rahim Khan Mandokhail was born on 12 January 1937 in the village of Omzha Murssainzai (attached to Shin Ghar) of

Fort Sandeman Zhob (; ) or Zhobak (), formerly known as Appozai or Fort Sandeman, is a city and district capital of Zhob District in Balochistan (Pakistan), Balochistan province of Pakistan. Zhob is located on the banks of Zhob River 337 km from Quetta, the ca ...

, British India (present-day Zhob, Pakistan). According to some reports, he was born on 15 June 1932. He obtained degrees in Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law.

Political career

He served as a member of the Senate of Pakistan from 1991 to 1997. He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan in

1997 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 3 February 1997 to elect the members of National Assembly. The elections were a fierce contest between Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led by pre-election Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Mus ...

. He was re-elected to the Senate of Pakistan on general seat as Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party candidate in 2006 where he served until 2012. He was elected as the member of the National Assembly on a ticket of Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party from NA-260 (Quetta) in

2013 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on Saturday 11 May 2013 to elect the members of the 14th National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies. The three major parties were the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) led by Nawaz Sharif, t ...

. He served as senior deputy chairman of Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party from 1989 until his death on 20 May 2017 in Quetta.

References

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