Raja Azam Khan Amacha | |
Birth Place: | Shigar Fort |
Office: | Head of the House of Amacha |
Term Start: | 12 December 2021 |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Party: | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (since 2018) |
Cabinet: | Gilgit Baltistan Cabinet |
Office3: | Minister for Education Gilgit-Baltistan[1] |
Term Start3: | 30 November 2020 |
Otherparty: | Pakistan Muslim League (N) (2015-2018) Muttahida Qaumi Movement (2009-2014) |
Parents: | Raja Muhammad Ali Shah Saba (father) |
Predecessor: | Raja Muhammad Ali Shah Saba |
Term End3: | 4 July 2023 |
Office1: | Member of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly[2] |
Termstart2: | 10 December 2009 |
Termend2: | 9 December 2014 |
Term Start1: | 25 November 2020 |
Constituency1: | GBA-12 Shigar |
1Blankname3: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata3: | Khalid Khurshid |
Governor3: | Raja Jalal Hussain Maqpoon Syed Mehdi Shah |
Successor2: | Imran Nadeem |
Predecessor1: | Imran Nadeem |
Constituency2: | GBA-12 Skardu-VI |
Raja Azam Khan Amacha is a Pakistani politician and has been a member of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly since November 2020. He became Head of the ruling family of the former princely state of Shigar after the death of his father Raja Muhammad Ali Shah Saba.[3] He is the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate for the position of Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan.[4]
He contested the 2009 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly Election from GBA-12 Skardu-VI as a candidate of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). He won the election with a margin of 1,702 votes over the runner-up Imran Nadeem of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). He garnered 10,520 votes while Nadeem received 8,818 votes.
He contested the 2015 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly Election from GBA-12 Shigar as a candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML(N)) but was unsuccessful. He received 9,930 votes and lost to Imran Nadeem, a candidate of the PPP.
He contested the 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election from GBA-12 Shigar as a candidate of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). He won the election by a margin of 1,788 votes over the runner-up Imran Nadeem of the PPP. He garnered 10,674 votes while Nadeem received 8,886 votes.[5]
On 5 July 2023, Amacha became the PTI's candidate for the position of the Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan, which became vacant due to the disqualification of Khalid Khurshid, the previous Chief Minister.[6]