Anwar Kamal Khan Marwat Mina Khel ( ur, ; 19 November 1946 – 13 February 2012) was a Pakistani Politician.
''Dawn.com,'' 14 February 2012 He was a senior leader of the

Pakistan Muslim League The Pakistan Muslim League ( ur, ; known as PML), is the name of several different Pakistani political parties that have dominated the right-wing platform in the country. The Muslim League (a different party) was the party of Pakistan’ ...

(Nawaz) He was the second son of the three sons of Justice

Khan Habibullah Khan Khan Habibullah Khan (also known as Khan Habibullah Khan Marwat ) (14 October 1901 – 5 December 1978) was the 1st Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan and former Peshawar High Court judge. He also served as the 10th Interior Minister of Pakist ...

and elder brother of a senior Pakistani Civil Servant Akhtar Munir Khan Marwat. He led his first tribal army in 1973. Earlier he has also remained a

Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

in addition to being a Senior Provincial Minister. He was elected as member of the in March 1997 for a six-year term. He served as a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power and on Local Government and Rural Development and also on Functional Committee on Problems of Less Developed Areas. He was elected to the provincial assembly in the 2002 elections defeating his longstanding rivals the late Pir Khalid Raza Zakori, serving as Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) parliamentary leader in the province for nearly five years. A former opponent of action against the

Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state (polity), state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist, m ...

, after losing the 2008 provincial elections he led his tribe in operation against the Taliban in the

Lakki Marwat Lakki Marwat or Lakki (Urdu and ps, ) is the headquarters of Lakki Marwat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Lakki Marwat has become one of the fastest growing cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Lakki Marwat is also the 20th mos ...

area.Pakistan chieftain hunts down Taliban
22 September 2008. Retrieved October 1, 2008 He died on 13 February 2012 due to two sudden heart attacks at

Lady Reading Hospital Lady Reading Hospital is located at Peshawar in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. It is also called ''Loye Huspatal'' (big hospital) and ''Gernali Huspatal''. It is named after Lady Reading, the wife of the Viceroy of India, Lord Reading. It ...

Peshawar Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...

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1946 births 2012 deaths Pashtun people Pakistan Muslim League (N) politicians {{Pakistan-politician-stub