Shaukat Ali Yousafzai
KP Minister of Industries
In office
1 April 2014 – 3 May 2014
PresidentMamnoon Hussain
GovernorShaukatullah Khan
Mehtab Ahmed Khan
KP Minister of Health
In office
31 May 2013 – 31 March 2014
PresidentAsif Ali Zardari
Mamnoon Hussain
GovernorShaukatullah Khan
Mehtab Ahmed Khan
Chief MinisterPervez Khattak
Preceded bySyed Zafar Ali Shah
Succeeded byShahram Khan
Member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
In office
15 October 2018 – 18 January 2023
SpeakerMushtaq Ahmad Khan
ConstituencyPK-23 (Shangla-I)
In office
31 May 2013 – 28 May 2018
SpeakerAsad Qaiser
ConstituencyPK-2 (Peshawar-II)
Personal details
Born (1963-02-01) 1 February 1963
Besham, Shangla District
NationalityPakistani
Political partyPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (2018-present)
Spouse2
Children14
Alma materAitchison College
Gordon College
OccupationPolitician
Chief MinisterPervez Khattak

Shaukat Ali Yousafzai (born 1 February 1963) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from October 2018 till January 2023. He also served as a member of the 10th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, representing the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and as Minister for Health and Information Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the Pervez Khattak administration.[1] He also serves as the Secretary General of PTI’s provincial chapter of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and previously has served as the political advisor to Imran Khan.[2][3]

Background

Yousafzai is a senior journalist and a senior leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He remained the president of Khyber Union of Journalist for three times. He is a Chief Editor of Daily Surkhab which is published from Peshawar. He basically belongs to Besham a remote village of District Shangla, and settled in Peshawar since 90s. He is a member and Deputy Parliamentary Leader of Provincial Assembly KPK.Currently he is holding no Ministry in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa.[4]

Education

He obtained his early education from Government High School Shang District Shangla and then his Intermediate from Jehanzeb College Swat. He has done MSc from KPK Agricultural University Peshawar. He obtained a degree in Journalism from the University of Peshawar.

Political career

Yousafzai remained active in politics during his university and was the President of People Student Federation of KPK Agricultural University, Peshawar. He joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in 1996 and also contested election from District Shangla. Since from that time, he remained active in politics and given his efforts for establishing PTI in KPK. In 2011 he was appointed as Political Advisor to chairman Imran khan. He then resigned from this post to contest intra party election. He was elected as Provincial General Secretary of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in KPK. In the 2013 general elections, he contested for Provincial Assembly seats from PK-2 Peshawar and got a huge victory against Syed Zahir Ali Shah of Pakistan People Party with a margin of 16,000 votes. PTI has assigned Shaukat Ali Yousafzai as Deputy Parliamentary Leader in KPK Provincial Assembly. He is also serving as Minister for Health and Information Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. He is the most influential Provincial leader of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province. He got worldwide recognition following a June 14, 2019 conference when he was accidentally equipped with a cat face filter by a social media team volunteer.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Yousafzai visits info department
  2. ↑ "News". Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  3. ↑ "News". Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  4. ↑ Shaukat Yousafzai: from reporter to minister, dailytimes.com.pk. Accessed 1 November 2023.
  5. ↑ Rob Picheta (17 June 2019). "Accidental cat filter derails political press conference". CNN. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  6. ↑ Garun, Natt (17 June 2019). "Cat filter derails Pakistani politician's live-streamed press conference". The Verge. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
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