Muhammad Azam Khan is a Pakistani politician from

Lower Dir District Lower Dir District (, ) is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Timergara is the district's headquarters and largest city. The Lower Dir district was formed in 1996, when Dir District was divided into Upper Dir and Lower ...

. He is currently serving as 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 ...

since February 2024 and previously served in this position from August 2018 to January 2023.

Political career

He contested the 2008 North-West Frontier Province provincial election as a candidate of

Awami National Party The Awami National Party (ANP; , ; lit. ''People's National Party'') is a Pashtun nationalist, secular and leftist political party in Pakistan. The party was founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986 and its current president is Aimal Wali Khan, g ...

(ANP) from PF-94 Lower Dir-I, but was unsuccessful. He received 5,772 votes and was defeated by Mehmood Zaib Khan, a candidate of Pakistan People's Party (PPP). He contested the

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as a candidate of ANP from NA-34 Lower Dir, but was unsuccessful. He received votes and was defeated by Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqoob, a candidate of

Jamaat-e-Islami Jamaat-e-Islami is an Islamist fundamentalist movement founded in 1941 in British India by the Islamist author and theorist Syed Abul Ala Maududi, who was inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood. It is considered one of the most influential Isla ...

(JI). He was elected the

in the 2018 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election as a candidate of

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is a political party in Pakistan established in 1996 by cricketer and politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The party is led by Gohar Ali Khan since late 2023. ...

(PTI) from PK-13 (Lower Dir-I). He received 21,683 votes and defeated Shad Nawaz Khan, a candidate of

Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal The Muttahida Majlis–e–Amal (MMA; Urdu: , ) is a political alliance consisting of conservative, Islamist, Religion in Pakistan, religious, and right-wing parties of Pakistan. Naeem Siddiqui (the founder of Tehreek e Islami) proposed such a ...

(MMA). He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly in the 2024 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election as an independent candidate supported by PTI from PK-14 Lower Dir-I. He secured 31,228 votes, while the runner-up, Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqoob of JI, secured 16,840 votes.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Pashtun politicians Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MPAs 2024–2029 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MPAs (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) People from Lower Dir District Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf politicians {{KhyberPakhtunkhwa-MPA-stub