Sardar Mehtab Abbasi
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Sardar Mehtab Abbasi |
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| 27th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
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In office 15 April 2014 – 8 February 2016 |
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| President | Mamnoon Hussain |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Shaukatullah Khan |
| Succeeded by | Iqbal Zafar Jhagra |
| Minister of Railways | |
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In office 2008–2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Yousuf Raza Gilani |
| Constituency | N.A-17 Abbottabad-1 |
| Member of the Senate of Pakistan | |
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In office 2003–2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Shaukat Aziz |
| Majority | Pakistan Muslim League(Q) |
| Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
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In office February 21, 1997 – October 12, 1999 |
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| President | Muhammad Rafiq Tarar |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
| Governor | Miangul Aurangzeb |
| Preceded by | Raja Sikander Zaman |
| Succeeded by | Akram Khan Durrani |
| Majority | Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz |
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December 15, 1952 Malkot, Abbottabad District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
| Nationality |
 Pakistan
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| Political party | Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) |
| Children | Shamoon Yar Khan (Son) Ex-Member KPK Assembly |
| Alma mater | Government High School, Murree Sir Sayyad College, Rawalpindi |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Website | http://soncb.blogspot.com/ |
| Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan is thought to be part of Budreal sub tribe of the Dhund Abbasis. Sardar Mehtab's term was cut short by the military coup of 12 October 1999 and he was arrested from his house in Abbottabad. The first ever case against Pervez Musharraf was filed by his lawyer Mr. Mian Muhibullah Kakakhel Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan in the case of Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan Versus National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and other high Military hierarchy. The petition was numbered as writ petition No. 1 of 2000. | |
Mehtab Abbasi (Urdu/Pashto/Hindko: سردار مهتاب احمد خان عباسي) is a Pakistani politician from Abbottabad who started his political career as an independent candidate in the 1985 election, and after this election subsequently took hold of both the provincial and national assembly seat in his constituency winning repeatedly and without loss until the 2013 election. Sardar Mehtab also served as Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan from 2014 to 2016, Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 1997 to 1999, and Federal Minister for Railways in 2008. He is politically affiliated with Pakistan Muslim League (N). He has served as a senator for five years since March 2003, until he won the NA-17 Abbottabad-I seat for the National Assembly of Pakistan in the 2008 general election.
Sardar Mehtab after winning the provincial seat in the general election took oath as the provincial minister for law and political affairs for a tenure of almost two years before the election was called again.
After the 1990 general election, Sardar mehtab left the provincial seat and retained the national assembly seat after which he was appointed as the Federal Minister for Kashmir affairs until the year 1993 when the general election was called after the assembly was dissolved.
Abbasi became the 16th Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 21 February 1997, taking over from Raja Sikander Zaman, and served until 12 October 1999.
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