Aftab Ahmad Sherpao
| Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao آفتاب احمد خان شېرپاو |
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| Chairman of Qaumi Watan Party | |
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Assumed office 17 October 2012 |
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| Interior Minister of Pakistan | |
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In office 25 August 2004 – 15 November 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Shaukat Aziz |
| Ministry of Water and Power (Pakistan) | |
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In office 2002–2004 |
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| Prime Minister | Zafarullah Khan Jamali |
| Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
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In office 24 April 1994 – 12 November 1996 |
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| President | Farooq Leghari |
| Prime Minister | Benazir Bhutto |
| Governor |
Maj.Gen. Khurshid Ali Khan Lt.Gen. Arif Bangash |
| Majority | Pakistan Peoples Party |
| Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
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Assumed office 2008 |
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| Constituency | NA-8 Charsadda-II |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao 20 August 1941 Hashtnagar, North-West Frontier Province, British India (now Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Political party | Qaumi Watan Party |
| Relations | Khan Bahadur Ghulam Haider Khan Sherpao (Father) Hayat Muhammad Khan Sherpao (Brother) Dost Muhammad Khan Sherpao (Brother) Wali Muhammad Khan (Brother) Col. Abdul Wadud Khan (Brother) Sher Muhammad Khan Sherpao (Brother) Safwat Ghayur (Brother in Law) |
| Children | Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao (Son) Mustafa Aftab Khan Sherpao (Son) |
| Alma mater |
Edwardes College Pakistan Military Academy |
| Occupation | Politician and statesman |
| Religion | Islam |
| Website | qwp |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Pakistan |
| Service/branch |
 Pakistan Army
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| Years of service | 1965–1977 |
| Rank |
 Major |
| Unit | Probyns Horse Regiment-Armoured Corps |
| Battles/wars |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 |
Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao (Pashto: آفتاب احمد خان شېرپاو; Urdu: آفتاب احمد خان شیر پائو ) (born 20 August 1941)[1] is a senior Pakistani political leader, the head of Qaumi Watan Party, and was the 35th Federal Interior Minister of Pakistan. Prior to this assignment he was working as the Federal Minister for Water and Power (WAPDA), Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas and States & Frontier Regions (KANA & SAFRON) and Minister for Interprovincial Coordination. Sherpao has also served as the 14th and 18th Chief Minister of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. He belongs to an influential Gujjar family of Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Aftab Khan was educated at Lawrence College Murree, Edwardes College, Peshawar and Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul, Abbottabad. After passing out from Pakistan Military Academy with 34th Long Course in 1965, he joined Armoured Corps in the Probyns Horse Regiment, seeing action in both the '65 and '71 wars. Over a period of 12 years he rose to the rank of Major.
It was after the assassination of his elder brother Hayat Sherpao in a bomb blast in 1975 that Aftab jumped into the political arena. The then Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto asked him to take an early retirement from his military career and afterwards nominated him as Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) provincial vice-president. Aftab Khan was thus a stalwart of the original unified Pakistan Peoples Party from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Later Sherpao established his own party Qaumi Watan Party.
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