11 Facts About Afrasiab Khattak

Afrasiab Khattak is a Pakistani socialist politician and political analyst who is a senior leader of the National Democratic Movement.

Afrasiab Khattak formerly was a member of the Communist Party of Pakistan.

Afrasiab Khattak has formerly served as the chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a member of the Senate of Pakistan, and the provincial president of the Awami National Party.

Afrasiab Khattak is an activist in the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement.

Afrasiab Khattak later joined the socialist National Awami Party in 1980 and later went into asylum in Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Khattak returned to Pakistan when General Zia-ul-Haq martial law ended after his plan crash.

Afrasiab Khattak joined the Awami National Party, becoming the President of ANP's central secretariat based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and as well as chairman of the special standing committee senate.

Afrasiab Khattak became an active member of Communist Party of Pakistan.

Afrasiab Khattak was an active leftist politician during the 1970s and 1980s.

Afrasiab Khattak spent many years in self-exile in Afghanistan during the 1980s due to his strong opposition to General Zia-ul-Haq's military rule.

Afrasiab Khattak was elected as senator of the Senate of Pakistan in March 2009.

Afrasiab Khattak's membership was suspended from ANP on 12 November 2018 by the party's General Secretary, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, on the directives of the party's president, Asfandyar Wali Khan.