Afrasiab Khattak

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Afrasiab Khattak
افراسياب خټک
Pakistan Senator of the Kohat Division of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province for the Pakistan Senate
In office
15 April 2009 – 2014
PresidentAsif Ali Zardari
Awami National Party President for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
PresidentAsfandyiar Wali
Personal details
BornLachi, Kohat District, North-West Frontier Province, West Pakistan (now in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Political partyNational Democratic Movement
Other political
affiliations		Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
Alma materPeshawar University
OccupationPublic servant

Afrasiab Khattak (Pashto: افراسیاب خټک‎, Urdu: افراسياب خٹک‎) is a politician, intellectual, Pashtun rights activist, and a senior leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM).[1] He is from Lachi in the Kohat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Khattak started his political activism in the 1970s but went to the Soviet Union to avoid the Great Purge authorised by the regime of General Zia-ul-Haq. Inspired by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Khattak joined the pro-Soviet Communist Party of Pakistan. He later joined the socialist National Awami Party in 1980 and later went into asylum in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, serving as the top adviser to the Soviet government in matters involving Afghanistan. After the Fall of Kabul, Khattak returned to Pakistan and founded the Afghanistan Pakistan People's Friendship Association in 2001. In 2002, Khattak was appointed as the president of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).[2] In 2006, Khattak joined the Awami National Party, becoming the President of ANP's central secretariat based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and as well as Chairman of the special standing committee senate. His membership was suspended from ANP on 12 November 2018.[3] He is an activist in the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM).

Biography[]

Khattak became an active member of Communist Party of Pakistan. He was an active leftist politician during the 1970s and 1980s. Khattak spent many years in self-exile in Afghanistan during the 1980s due to his strong opposition to General Zia-ul-Haq's military rule.[4]

Khattak joined the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) in 1989, and served as the vice-chairman of HRCP in North-West Frontier Province, for three years – he is also one of the founders of the Afghanistan Pakistan People's Friendship Association.[5]

After rejoining the Awami National Party, he was elected in 2006 as the ANP's provincial president, leading the party to provincial victory in Pakistan's elections of 2008.[6] Khattak was elected as senator of the in March 2009.[7]

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References[]

  1. ^ Krishnankutty, Pia (2 September 2021). "Pashtun leaders launch National Democratic Movement, party to counter Pakistan 'militarisation'". ThePrint.
  2. ^ HRCP elections 1 April 2002 . DAWN group
  3. ^ "Suspension as good as expulsion". The News International. 16 December 2018. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  4. ^ Hussain; S. A. (30 June 2000). "Afrasiab Khattak: An Unlikely Crusader". Pakistan Link. Archived from the original on 26 May 2006. Retrieved 10 May 2007.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Challenges for Pakistani Democracy: Resisting Religious Extremism Archived 9 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Afrasiab ANP's new provincial president". Dawn. 13 April 2007. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  7. ^ From idealism to pragmatism By Ismail Khan 6 July 2003 DAWN group. Retrieved 6 June 2006

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