Liaquat Khan Khattak is a Pakistani politician who served as a member 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 October 2018 to January 2023.

Political career

He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the North-West Frontier Province in the

2002 North-West Frontier Province provincial election Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of North-West Frontier Province to elect the members of the 8th Provincial Assembly of North-West Frontier Province on 10 October 2002, alongside nationwide general elections and three oth ...

from PF-13 Nowshera-II as a candidate of the

Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao) Qaumi Watan Party ( ps, قومي وطن ګوند or ; ur, قومی وطن پارٹی), abbreviated as QWP and formerly called Pakistan Peoples Party–Sherpao (PPP–S), is one of the prominent political parties in Pakistan, that split away from ...

(PPP-S). He received 18,115 votes and defeated Mian Yahya Shah, a candidate of the

Pakistan People's Party The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, , ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third largest party in the National Assembly and second largest in the Senate of Pakistan. The party was founded i ...

(PPP). Khattak was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a candidate of

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from the constituency PK-64 Nowshera-IV in

2018 Pakistani by-elections By-elections are scheduled to be held in Pakistan on 14 October 2018 and 21 October 2018. These elections will be held on twelve constituencies for the National Assembly of Pakistan and twenty-seven constituencies belonging to four provincial as ...

held on 14 October 2018. He defeated Muhammad Shahid of

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). Khattak garnered 22,775 votes while his closest rival secured 9,560 votes. He served as a Minister for Irrigation Department and Excise & Taxation Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa until February 2020. He was removed from the cabinet on 20 February 2020 on allegations that he supported Ikhtiar Wali Khan, Pakistan Muslim League (N)'s candidate, in the by-election for PK-63. Later, he resigned from

and joined

JUI-F Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan (Fazl) also Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) or simply as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Urdu: ; ; JUI-F) is a Deobandi Sunni political party in Pakistan. Established as the ''Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam'' in 1945, it is the result of ...

References

Living people Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) politicians Politicians from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Year of birth missing (living people) {{Pakistan-politician-stub