Nadeem Khayal Khan () is a Pakistani politician from

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 ...

. He had been a member of the

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...

from February 2023 till August 2023.

Political career

2022

Khayal was elected to the

15th National Assembly of Pakistan The 15th National Assembly of Pakistan is the legislature of Pakistan following the 2018 general election of members of parliament (MPs) to the National Assembly of Pakistan, the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Pakistan. The Nationa ...

in a 2022 by-election from the

NA-33 (Hangu) NA-36 Hangu-cum-Orakzai () is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It covers the whole of the district Hangu. The constituency was formerly known as NA-16 (Hangu) from 1977 to 2018. The name changed to NA-33 (Hangu) after the del ...

constituency as a candidate of

. He received 20,772 votes and defeated Obaid Ullah, a candidate of the

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (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 o ...

. Khayal was notified by the

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on 30 April 2022. He took the oath of office on 22 February 2023.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Parliamentarians

It was alleged that he had left the PTI to join the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Parliamentarians (PTI-P), a new party founded by the former

Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( ur, وزیر اعلیٰ خیبر پختونخوا) is the head of government of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The chief minister leads the legislative branch of the provincial government, ...

Pervez Khattak Pervez Khan Khattak ( ur, ; ps, پروېز خان خټک; born 1 January 1950) is a Pakistani politician and a member of PTI who served as the Defence Minister of Pakistan from 20 August 2018 until the dissolution of National Assembly on 3 ...

. Due to these allegations, his basic membership with the PTI was terminated. However, two days later, Khayal had announced in a press conference that he had forcefully been brought to Khattak's gathering where the latter had announced the foundation of the PTI-P. Khayal had also said that he was a part of the PTI and had no connections with the PTI-P.

References

Living people Pashtun politicians Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Pakistan-MNA-stub