Muzafar Said () is a Pakistani politician hailing from Bangai Ziarat Talash, Tehsil Timergara, District Lower Dir who served as minister of ''Minister for Finance and Statistics'' in the

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly 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 th ...

. He also served as a member of ''Public Accounts Committee''.

Political career

He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the North-West Frontier Province as 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) from PF-94 Lower Dir-I in the

2002 North-West Frontier Province provincial election Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of North-West Frontier Province to elect the members of the 8th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Provincial Assembly of North-West Frontier Province on 10 October 2002, alongsid ...

. He received 13,681 votes and defeated Ahmad Hassan, a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao) (PPP-S). He was re-elected to 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 ...

as 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) from PK-94 Lower Dir-I in the

2013 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to elect the members of the 10th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 11 May 2013, alongside nationwide general elections and three other provincial elections ...

. He received 14,456 votes and defeated Mehmood Zeb Khan, a candidate of the

Pakistan People's Party The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is a political party in Pakistan and one of the three major Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. With a centre-left political position, it is cu ...

(PPP). In October 2014, he was inducted into the cabinet of a

Chief Minister A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union ter ...

Pervez Khattak Pervez Khan Khattak (; ; born 1 January 1950) is a Pakistani politician who served as the Minister of Defence (Pakistan) from August 2018 until April 2022. He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till January ...

as the Provincial Minister for Finance, after the resignation of

Siraj-ul-Haq Siraj-ul-Haq (Pashto: سراج الحق; born 5 September 1962) is a Pakistani politician who was elected as the chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious political party in Pakistan which seeks to establish an Islamic legal system. He also served ...

, the emir of JI, from the position. He ran for a seat of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a candidate of MMA from PK-15 Lower Dir-III in the

2018 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 25 July 2018 to elect the members of the 11th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, alongside nationwide general elections and three other provincial election ...

, but was unsuccessful. He received 16,743 votes and was defeated by Shafi Ullah, a candidate of the

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). After his defeat in the 2018 elections, he wanted JI to take action against those party workers that didn't support him, but the local party chapter was reluctant to do so. Eventually, on 16 November 2020, he left JI and joined the PPP. Due to the likely chance of not getting the PPP nomination for PK-15 Lower Dir-III, there are reports that Said might soon join the

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Parliamentarians Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Parliamentarians (PTI-P; ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded on 17 July 2023 by the former Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervez Khattak. The party was formed as a reaction to the 2023 Pakistani pr ...

(PTI-P).

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Living people Pashtun politicians Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MPAs 2013–2018 People from Lower Dir District Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{KhyberPakhtunkhwa-MPA-stub