Mian Iftikhar Hussain
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Mian Iftikhar Hussain from Pabbi, Nowshera
is a serving provincial information minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan
. A senior party activist of the Awami National Party
(ANP) and former student leader of the Pakhtun Student Federation. He has been a strong opponent of the Taliban; in July 2010 he and his family were targeted by extremists in two separate attacks the first of which included the murder of his only son in a targeted attack.
He completed his masters in Pashto from the University of Peshawar
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Elected three times to the provincial assembly in 1990, 1997 and 2008, he has previously served as the partys provincial general secretary and secretary of information.
Nowshera
Nowshera - known locally as Nowkhaar is the chief city of Nowshera District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan...
is a serving provincial information minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. A senior party activist of the Awami National Party
Awami National Party
The Awami National Party is an Pashtun nationalist, socialist, centre-left political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International...
(ANP) and former student leader of the Pakhtun Student Federation. He has been a strong opponent of the Taliban; in July 2010 he and his family were targeted by extremists in two separate attacks the first of which included the murder of his only son in a targeted attack.
He completed his masters in Pashto from the University of Peshawar
University of Peshawar
The University of Peshawar is a public sector university in the city of Peshawar, Pakistan. The university was established in October 1950 by Mr...
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Elected three times to the provincial assembly in 1990, 1997 and 2008, he has previously served as the partys provincial general secretary and secretary of information.