Merajuddin Khan was a

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. He was born on February 15, 1958, and was originally from Khairabad,

Nowshera District Nowshera District (, ) is a district in the Peshawar Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The capital and district headquarter is Nowshera city. Overview and history Nowshera was previously a tehsil (subdivision) of Pesha ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Northern Pakistan, northwestern region of the country, Khyber ...

. He played an active role in student politics in the late 1980s. He also elected Central president of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba Pakistan during 1982–1984. He held LLB from Law College Karachi and MA (History & Islamic Education)from

University of Peshawar The University of Peshawar (; ; ; abbreviated UoP; known more popularly as Peshawar University) is a public research university located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The university is one of the oldest universities in the provi ...

. Later, Mr Merajuddin Khan joined

Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (JIP), is a Pakistani Islamism, Islamist political party. It is the Pakistani successor to Jamaat-e-Islami, which was founded in colonial India in 1941. JIP is a "vanguard party", whose members are intended to be leade ...

for professional politics and become Provincial Vice-president of Jamaat-e-Islami KP. He also served as Member of Central Core-Committee of

several times. Also, he was the founding director of a well known chain of schools in KP by the name of Iqra School & College Iqra Education System KP. He died on March 5, 2016, at Haripur while coming back from a party meeting and was buried in hometown Khairabad, District Nowshera KP.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Merajuddin 1958 births 2016 deaths People from Nowshera District