Shah Farman

Shah Farman
Shah Farman
33rd Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
	In office; 5 September 2018 – 16 April 2022
President	Mamnoon Hussain; Arif Alvi
Chief Minister	Mahmood Khan
Preceded by	Iqbal Zafar Jhagra; Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani (Acting)
Succeeded by	Haji Ghulam Ali
Minister for Public Health Engineering and Information of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
	In office; 21 July 2014 – 28 May 2018
Governor	Shaukatullah Khan; Mehtab Ahmed Khan
Chief Minister	Pervez Khattak
Preceded by	Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani
Member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
	In office; 17 August 2018 – 4 September 2018
Succeeded by	Salahuddin Khan
Constituency	PK-71 Peshawar-VI
	In office; 31 May 2013 – 28 May 2018
Constituency	PK 10 Peshawar-X
Personal details
Born	March 1965 (age 59); Badaber, Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Political party	PTI (1998–present)
Alma mater	University of Peshawar

Shah Farman (Urdu: شاہ فرمان, born March 1965) is a Pakistani politician from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He served as the 32nd Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 5 September 2018 to 16 April 2022. Previously, he was a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from May 2013 to May 2018, and again from August 2018 to September 2018.

Early life and education

Farman was born in March 1965 in Badaber, a village located in the Peshawar District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and he has earned his LLB from the Khyber Law College, University of Peshawar.^[1]

Political career

Farman has been associated with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) since at least 1998.^[2]

He had been a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from 2013 to 2018.^[3] He also served as the minister for public health engineering and information in Pervez Khattak cabinet.^[4]^[5] He was re-elected to the KPK Assembly as a candidate of PTI from Constituency PK-71 Peshawar-VI in 2018 Pakistani general election.^[6] He received 17,309 votes and defeated Sifat Ullah, a candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League (N).^[6]

On 16 August 2018, he was nominated for the post of Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.^[7] On September 4, 2018, he resigned from his Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly seat after casting his vote in the 2018 Pakistani presidential election.^[8] On 5 September 2018, Farman took oath as Governor of Khyber Pakthunkhwa.^[9]^[8]^[4] On April 16, 2022, his resignation as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor was accepted by President Arif Alvi.^[10]