Aimal Wali Khan ( ps, اېمل ولي خان; born 18 November 1986) is a Pakistani politician and the provincial president of the

Awami National Party The Awami National Party (ANP; ur, , ps, اولسي ملي ګوند; lit. ''People's National Party'') is a Pashtun nationalist, secular and leftist political party in Pakistan. The party was founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986 and its curr ...

(ANP) for

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. He is the son of the central president of ANP,

Asfandyar Wali Khan Asfandyar Wali Khan (Urdu and Pashto: اسفندیار ولی خان) (born 19 February 1949) is a Pakistani Pashtun politician who is the president of the Awami National Party (ANP). His father, Abdul Wali Khan, was the party's first presiden ...

; the grandson of the founder of ANP,

Abdul Wali Khan Khan Abdul Wali Khan ( ps, خان عبدالولي خان; 11 January 1917 – 26 January 2006) was a Pakistani secular democratic socialist and Pashtun people, Pashtun leader, and served as president of Awami National Party. Son of the promin ...

; and the great-grandson of the founder of the

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movement,

Abdul Ghaffar Khan Abdul Ghaffār Khān (; 6 February 1890 – 20 January 1988), also known as Bacha Khan () or Badshah Khan (), and honourably addressed as Fakhr-e-Afghan (), was a Pakistani Pashtun, independence activist, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar ...

Education

Khan completed his early education at Fazl-e-Haq school and College Mardan and his A-levels at Atchison College Lahore. He also earned a

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Political career

Khan started his political career in 2007 as a worker for the Pakhtun Students’ Federation (PSF). He remained associated with the student wing till 2011.

holds their intraparty elections every four years. Khan was elected as Joint Secretary in 2011,

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was leading the provincial cabinet at that moment. In 2014, Khan was elected as Provincial Deputy General Secretary for four years. He also served as an acting General Secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In 2019, his name was suggested for the Provincial President and no one opposed him. His name was suggested by the then Provincial President and Ex-Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Amir Haider Khan Hoti. He was elected as Provincial President ANP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 12 April 2019. Khan also holds the Directorship of Baacha Khan Trust. He ran for the seat of the

Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which is located in Peshawar, the provincial capital. It was established under Article 106 of t ...

from Constituency PK-58 (Charsadda-II) as a candidate of ANP in the

2018 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 25 July 2018 to elect the members of the 11th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, alongside nationwide general elections and three other provincial elections ...

but was unsuccessful. He received 22,141 votes and lost the seat to Sultan Muhammad Khan, a candidate of

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(PTI). He ran for the seat of the

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from Constituency NA-24 (Charsadda-II) as a candidate of ANP in the

2022 Pakistan by-elections By-elections were held on 8 National Assembly and 3 Punjab Assembly constituencies in Pakistan on 16 October 2022 and 1 National Assembly seat on 30 October 2022. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf got a landslide victory by winning 7 out of 9 National ...

but was unsuccessful. He received 68,356 votes and lost the seat to

Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidenc ...

, the chairman of PTI. Khan also writes articles in Pakistani newspapers addressing political issues of the country. He is critical of extremism and

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Aimal Wali Living people Awami National Party politicians 1986 births Pashtun people People from Charsadda District, Pakistan Iqra University alumni Aitchison College alumni Institute of Business Administration, Karachi alumni