Shah Farman | |
Office: | 33rd Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
Term Start: | 5 September 2018 |
Term End: | 16 April 2022 |
Successor: | Haji Ghulam Ali |
Office2: | Member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
Term Start2: | 17 August 2018 |
Term End2: | 4 September 2018 |
Constituency2: | PK-71 Peshawar-VI |
Successor2: | Salahuddin Khan |
Term Start3: | 31 May 2013 |
Term End3: | 28 May 2018 |
Constituency3: | PK 10 Peshawar-X |
Office1: | Minister for Public Health Engineering and Information of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
Term Start1: | 21 July 2014 |
Term End1: | 28 May 2018 |
Governor1: | Shaukatullah Khan Mehtab Ahmed Khan |
1Blankname1: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata1: | Pervez Khattak |
Predecessor1: | Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Party: | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf |
President: | Mamnoon Hussain Arif Alvi |
1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata: | Mahmood Khan |
Alma Mater: | University of Peshawar |
Shah Farman (Urdu: {{nq|شاہ فرمان) is a Pakistani politician from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He served as the 32nd Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 5 September 2018 to 16 April 2022. Previously, he was a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from May 2013 to May 2018, and again from August 2018 to September 2018.
Farman was born in March 1965 in Badaber, a village located in the Peshawar District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and he has earned his LLB from the Khyber Law College, University of Peshawar.[1]
Farman has been associated with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) since at least 1998.[2]
He had been a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from 2013 to 2018.[3] He also served as the minister for public health engineering and information in Pervez Khattak cabinet.[4] [5] He was re-elected to the KPK Assembly as a candidate of PTI from Constituency PK-71 Peshawar-VI in 2018 Pakistani general election.[6] He received 17,309 votes and defeated Sifat Ullah, a candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League (N).[6]
On 16 August 2018, he was nominated for the post of Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[7] On September 4, 2018, he resigned from his Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly seat after casting his vote in the 2018 Pakistani presidential election.[8] On 5 September 2018, Farman took oath as Governor of Khyber Pakthunkhwa.[9] [8] [4] On April 16, 2022, his resignation as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor was accepted by President Arif Alvi.[10]