Maulana Atta Ur Rehman (( ur, مولاناعطاالرحمن), born July 25, 1965) currently he is serving as

Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the e ...

. He is also served as federal

Minister of Tourism The Minister of Tourism is the head of the governmental department that specializes in tourism, recreation and/or culture. The position exists in many different countries under several names: * Ministry of Tourism and Environment (Albania) * Mini ...

from 2008-2010 during PPP government. Currently he is Vice President

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 ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...

. He is the brother of

Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman ( ur, مولانا فضلُرحمٰن; born 19 June 1953) is a Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist politician who is the president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F). He is also the president of the Pakistan Democratic Movement ...

, the Emir of

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and the second son of former Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the then NWFP Maulana

Mufti Mahmud Mufti Mehmood ( ur, ; 1919–1980) was a Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar who was one of the founding members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI).British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...

and JUI after Pakistan came into being.

Early education

He got his early education in his village Abdul Khail from his father. Later on, he entered Madrassa Qasim ul Uloom,

Multan Multan (; ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, on the bank of the Chenab River. Multan is Pakistan's seventh largest city as per the 2017 census, and the major cultural, religious and economic centre of southern Punjab. Multan is one of the olde ...

for further Islamic studies. He was issued the degree of Shahadat ul Aalimia by Wifaq ul Madaris in 1987. Nine years later, he got the degree of Masters of arts in Islamiyat from

Gomal University Gomal University ( Urdu: جامعہ گومل), is a public research university located in Dera Ismail Khan in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Founded and established in 1974, the university is one of the oldest institutions in the ...

. After doing masters, he started teaching Uloom e Islamia in the famous religious Institute Jamia-tul-Maarif-Alsharia, D.I Khan. He was also the chief Muhtamim of the same institute.

Political career

In 1998, he was appointed as the party election commissioner for

Dera Ismail Khan Dera Ismail Khan (; bal, , Urdu and skr, , ps, ډېره اسماعيل خان), abbreviated as D.I. Khan, is a city and capital of Dera Ismail Khan District, located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the 37th largest city of Pakistan ...

. In the same year, he was appointed as the Joint Secretary JUI, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In 2002, he was appointed as the party election commissioner for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In the same year, he was appointed as the party president/Ameer for District Dera Ismail Khan. In 2006, he was elected as the Vice President/Naib Ameer JUI for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Since 2006, he has kept the same position in the party. He was elected two times consecutively as the member of national assembly of Pakistan from NA-25, District Tank. In his first election he led the main contender Mr Dawar Khan Kundi by about 72,000 votes. In his second election of 2008, he defeated the former provincial minister Habib Ullah Khan Kundi aka Babu Khan, but there was a controversy in the result and Babu Khan claimed that the election was unfair and he petitioned a case in the

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against Maulana Atta ur Rehman but the Supreme Court cleared the result and Maulana Atta ur Rehman was declared as the member of National Assembly of Pakistan. At that time, JUI under a unanimous decision passed by the central executive committee joined the PPP government as a coalition partner and he was given the portfolio of Minister of Tourism. In the election of 2013, after his elder brother Maulana Fazl Ur Rehman, the chief of JUIF won all the three seats from Tank, Dera Ismail Khan and Lakki Marwat. Maulana Atta Ur Rehman was nominated to contest in the by elections on NA-27 District

Lakki Marwat Lakki Marwat or Lakki (Urdu and ps, ) is the headquarters of Lakki Marwat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Lakki Marwat has become one of the fastest growing cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Lakki Marwat is also the 20th mos ...

against Col (Retd) Amir Ullah Khan Marwat 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). Maulana Atta Ur Rehman failed to make it to the National Assembly of Pakistan.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rehman, Atta Ur 1965 births Living people Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) politicians People from Dera Ismail Khan District Pakistani senators (14th Parliament) Gomal University alumni