Shaukat Ali Yousafzai (born 1 February 1963) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the

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from May 2013 till January 2023. He also served as a member of the 10th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, representing the

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(PTI) and as Minister for Health and Information Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the Pervez Khattak administration. He also serves as the

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of PTI’s provincial chapter of

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and previously has served as the

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Background

Yousafzai is a senior journalist and a senior leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He remained the president of Khyber Union of Journalist for three times. He is a Chief Editor of Daily Surkhab which is published from

Peshawar Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

. He basically belongs to Besham a remote village of District Shangla, and settled in Peshawar since 90s. He is a member and Deputy Parliamentary Leader of Provincial Assembly KP.Currently he is holding no Ministry in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa.

Education

He obtained his early education from Government High School Shang District Shangla and then his Intermediate from Jehanzeb College Swat. He has done MSc from KP Agricultural University Peshawar. He obtained a degree in Journalism from the

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 ...

Political career

Yousafzai remained active in politics during his university and was the President of People Student Federation of KP Agricultural University, Peshawar. He joined

in 1996 and also contested election from District Shangla. Since from that time, he remained active in politics and given his efforts for establishing PTI in KP. In 2011 he was appointed as Political Advisor to chairman Imran khan. He then resigned from this post to contest intra party election. He was elected as Provincial General Secretary of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in KP. In the 2013 general elections, he contested for Provincial Assembly seats from PK-2 Peshawar and got a huge victory against Syed Zahir Ali Shah of Pakistan People Party with a margin of 16,000 votes. PTI has assigned Shaukat Ali Yousafzai as Deputy Parliamentary Leader in KP Provincial Assembly. He is also serving as Minister for Health and Information Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. He is the most influential Provincial leader of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province. He got worldwide recognition following a 14 June 2019 conference when he was accidentally equipped with a cat face filter by a social media team volunteer.

References

External links

PTI OFFICIAL WEBSITE
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yousafzai, Shaukat Ali Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf politicians Pashtun politicians Pakistani male journalists Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MPAs 2013–2018 People from Shangla District Politicians from Peshawar 1963 births Living people Pashtun journalists