Raja Amir Zaman ( ur, ) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the

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and remained the mayor of district Haripur. He and his family are entitled as a 'Nawab of Khanpur', because of their roots with royal family of

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. Currently his son named, Raja Haroon Sikandar is serving as a mayor of Tehsil Khanpur KPK. Raja Amir Zaman is MBBS doctor by profession. He is the son of Late

Raja Sikander Zaman Raja Sikandar Zaman Khan (Urdu/Pashto: راجہ سکندر زمان ; born 1935 died 16 March 2007) was a Pakistani politician and the former Chief Minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. During a 50-year political career he served as Minister, Senior ...

who served multiple times as member of parliament, federal minister and as a Chief Minister of Khyber PakhtunKhuwa (KPK). His brother Raja Faisal Zaman was a former minister of the provisional assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Political career

He ran for the seat of the

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as a candidate for

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from Constituency PF-39 (Haripur) in

1993 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 6 October 1993 to elect the members of National Assembly. The elections took place after both the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan resigned to resolve a power struggle. Prior ...

but was unsuccessful. He received 23,430 votes and lost the seat to Muhammad Mushtaq Khan. He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as an independent candidate from Constituency PF-39 (Haripur) in

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but was unsuccessful. He received 22,185 votes and lost the seat to Muhammad Mushtaq Khan. He ran for the seat of the

as an independent candidate from Constituency NA-19 (Haripur) in

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but was unsuccessful. He received 71,254 votes and lost the seat to Sardar Muhammad Mushtaq Khan. Zaman was elected to the National Assembly on a ticket of

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(PTI) from Constituency NA-19 (Haripur) in

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. He received 117,612 votes and defeated

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. In 2014, he was de-notified as member of the National Assembly after the constituency election was invalidated due to rigging.

References

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