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Jamshed Khan

Pakistani politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionFeb 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ124489043 ↗
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Jamshed Khan (Urdu: جمشید خان) was a Pakistani politician from Buner District who served as a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 2002 to 2008.

Career

He was elected as member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the 2002 Pakistani general election. He again contested the 2008 general election from PK-77 on the ticket of Pakistan Peoples Party–Sherpao and came second to Awami National Party's Sardar Hussain Babak. He joined Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) in 2010. In October 2017 during the visit of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan and Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, Jamshed Khan joined the PTI.

Personal life

Khan has a son, Abdul Kabir Khan, who is also a politician and was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from PK-27 (Buner-III) in the 2024 general election as a PTI candidate.

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The public source identifies “Jamshed Khan” as pakistani politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jamshed, Khan and Pakistani.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jamshed Khan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.