Alhaj Shahjee Gul Afridi (; born 1 January 1961) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly of Pakistan, also referred to as ''Aiwān-ē-Zairīñ'', is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, with the upper house being the Senate of Pakistan, Senate. As of 2023, the National Assem ...

from June 2013 to May 2018.

Early life

He was born on 1 January 1961. He is brother of

Taj Muhammad Afridi Taj Muhammad Afridi () is a Pakistani politician who was a member of Senate of Pakistan. Personal life He is brother of Alhaj Shah Jee Gul Afridi. Afridi owns an oil refinery and is an owner of Al-Haj Enterprises and Al Haj FAW Motors. Previ ...

Political career

He ran for the seat of the

as an independent candidate from Constituency NA-46 (Tribal Area-XI) in the

2002 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 10 October 2002 to elect the 12th National Assembly and four Provincial Assemblies. The elections were held under the military government of Pervez Musharraf. The two mainstream parties, Pakistan ...

but was unsuccessful and lost the seat to an independent candidate, Khalilur Rehman Afridi. He was elected to the National Assembly as an independent candidate from Constituency NA-45 (Tribal Area-X) in the

2013 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on Saturday 11 May 2013 to elect the members of the List of members of the 14th National Assembly of Pakistan, 14th National Assembly of Pakistan, National Assembly and the four Subdivisions of Pakistan, Pr ...

. He received 29,697 votes and defeated an independent candidate, Noor-ul-Haq Qadri. He ran for the National Assembly as an independent candidate from NA-43 Khyber-I in the

2018 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 25 July 2018 to elect the members of the 15th National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies. The three major parties were Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), led by Imran Khan, the Pakistan Muslim ...

, but was unsuccessful. He received 30,151 votes and was defeated by Noor-ul-Haq Qadri, 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). On 14 August 2021, he founded his own political party called Tehreeke Islahate Pakistan with the objective of starting reforms across the former

Federally Administered Tribal Areas The Federally Administered Tribal Areas, commonly known as FATA, was a semi-autonomous tribal region in north-western Pakistan that existed from 1947 until being merged with the neighbouring province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018 through the ...

. On 13 June 2023, he joined and merged his party with the

Pakistan Muslim League (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 ...

(PML(N)).

References

Living people Afridi family Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018 People from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 1961 births Place of birth missing (living people) {{Pakistan-MNA-stub