Bakht Jehan Khan is a Pakistani politician from
Buner District
Buner District ( ps, بونیر ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Before becoming a district in 1991, it was a tehsil within Swat District.
History
The Buner Valley lies bet ...
who served as Speaker of
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 2002 to 2007, belongs to
Jamaat e Islami
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.
Political career
Bakht Jehan Khan,
MMA
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candidate for the post of Speaker bagged 81 votes, and Ikramullah Shahid from
Mardan candidate for the office of Deputy Speaker, secured equal number of votes, 81 in 27 Nov 2002.
Mr Jehan, who turned from Buner, belongs to the
Jamaat-i-Islami and Mr Shahid is affiliated with the
Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam
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, both main components of the six-party religious alliance. Then he become speaker of provincial assembl
See also
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Buner
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Torwarsak
The Torwarsak area of Pakistan is an "administrative unit", known as the Union council of Buner District, located in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
District Buner has six Tehsils, usually translated as townships. These are Dagg ...
References
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Living people
Pashtun people
People from Buner District
Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan politicians
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal MPAs (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Speakers of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
1953 births