Ibadullah Khan (; born 15 November 1974) is a Pakistani politician who is serving as Opposition leader in the Khyber pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly. He was joint candidate of

PML-N The Pakistan Muslim League (N) or (PML(N)) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right, Conservatism in Pakistan, conservative political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third-largest party in the Senate of Pakistan, Senate and the larges ...

, PPP,

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, PTI-P and ANP for

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of KPK in 2024 election. He had been a member of the

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from August 2013 till August 2018 and again from 2018 to 2023. He was the Parliamentary Secretary for Planning Development and special initiative in Nawaz Sharif Government and he was Chairman of Standing Committee on

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in National Assembly from April 2019 till August 2023. He has been member of provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since 29 February 2024.

Early life

He was born on 15 November 1974 in Puran of district Shangla. He did his early schooling in his village and then went to study Bachelor of Dental surgery (BDS) in

Khyber Medical University Khyber Medical University (, , abbreviated as KMU) is a public research university located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

, Peshawar. He is younger brother of

Amir Muqam Amir Muqam is a Pakistani politician who is serving as the Federal Minister for Kashmir affairs and Gilgit Baltistan along with States and frontier regions in second Shehbaz Sharif cabinet. He is affiliated with PML(N) and serving as its Prov ...

. He is younger brother of

Political career

He started his political career after his brother Amir Muqam vacant his UC Nazim seat to contest in General Elections in 2002, thus He became UC Nazim of his village. Then he became district nazim of Shangla in next local government elections in 2005 and served till 2009. Ibad Ullah was elected to the

as a candidate of

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(PML-N) from Constituency NA-31 (Shangla) after his brother Amir Muqam who was two times MNA from the same constituency, decided to contest from Swat and field him in the

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. He received 30,916 votes and defeated a candidate of

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(ANP). During his tenure as Member of the National Assembly, he served as the Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and Development. He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-10 (Shangla) in the

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. He received 34,070 votes and defeated Sadeed ur Rehman, a candidate of ANP.

References

Living people Pakistan Muslim League (N) MNAs Pashtun politicians Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018 1974 births Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MPAs 2024–2029 {{MuslimN-MNA-stub