Faisal Zaman () is a Pakistani politician hailing from

Haripur District Haripur District ( ps, هریپور ولسوالۍ, ur, "The Town of Hari") is a district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The town of Haripur (meaning 'Hari's town') was founded in 1822 by Hari Singh Nalwa, the Com ...

, who had been a member of the

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly 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 August 2018 till January 2023. He also served as the chairman and a member of different committees.

Political career

Faisal Zaman was elected as the member of the

on ticket of

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI; ur, , ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI is one of the thre ...

from PK-52 (Haripur-IV) 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 ...

. In 2018, he was expelled from PTI for allegedly selling his vote in the Senate polls. He ran again for the PK-42 Haripur seat in 2018 General Elections and won as an Independent candidate. In 2021, he was arrested on murder case of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) provincial deputy general secretary Malik Tahir Iqbal. In April 2022, he escaped from the MPA hostel which was declared as a sub-jail.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zaman, Faisal Living people Pashtun people Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MPAs 2013–2018 People from Haripur District Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf politicians Year of birth missing (living people)