Ziaullah Khan Afridi () is a Pakistani politician who had been 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 May 2013 to May 2018. He had been Provincial minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for mines and mineral development from March 2014 to July 2015.

Early life and education

He was born on 2 February 1972. He has completed intermediate education.

Political career

He was elected to the

as a candidate 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 ...

(PTI) from Constituency PK-01 (Peshawar-I) 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 ...

. He received 22,932 votes and defeated a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (J). In March 2014, he was inducted into the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet of Chief Minister

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 ...

and was made Provincial minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for mines and mineral development. In July 2015, he was arrested on charge of corruption. The same month, his party membership was suspended by PTI and he was removed from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial cabinet. He was released from jail in October 2016 on bail. In August 2017, he quit PTI and joined

Pakistan Peoples 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 ...

. In September 2017, PTI petitioned the Election Commission of Pakistan to unseat Afridi from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly on the grounds for quitting PTI. The petition was rejected in February 2018.

References

Living people Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MPAs 2013–2018 1972 births {{KhyberPakhtunkhwa-MPA-stub