Abdul Qahar Wadan
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
30 August 2013  31 May 2018
ConstituencyNA-262 (Killa Abdullah)
Personal details
NationalityPakistani
Political partyPakhtun-khwa Milli Awami Party

Abdul Qahar Khan Wadan (Pashto: عبدالقھارخان ودان) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, from August 2013 to May 2018.

Political career

He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan as a candidate of Pakhtun-khwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) from Constituency PB-12 (Qilla Abdullah-II) in 2013 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 5,822 votes and lost the seat to Zmrak Khan.[1]

He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of the PKMAP from Constituency NA-262 (Killa Abdullah) in by-election held in August 2013.[2][3] The seat became vacant after Mehmood Khan Achakzai who won it May 2013 election vacated the seat in order to retain the seat won in his home National Assembly constituency.[4]

References

  1. "2013 election result" (PDF). ECP. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 February 2018. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  2. "By-elections spring some upsets". DAWN.COM. 23 August 2013. Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  3. "PML-N, PkMAP emerge victorious in Balochistan". The Nation. Archived from the original on 7 March 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  4. "Mehmood Khan Achakzai leading in two NA seats". DAWN.COM. 11 May 2013. Archived from the original on 10 April 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2017.


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