Marwat
Overview
Lakki Marwat District
Lakki Marwat is one of the Southern Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. It was created as an administrative district on July 1, 1992, prior to which it was a Tehsil of Bannu District.-Etymology:...
in the south 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...
as well the districts of Tank
Tank District
Tank , is the southern district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, the city of Tank is the capital of the district, which consists Union Council City I and Union Council City II. There are totally sixteen Union councils of district Tank. Tank was formerly part of district Dera Ismail...
and Dera Ismail Khan
Dera Ismail Khan District
Dera Ismail Khan is one of the 24 districts in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The capital of the district is the town of Dera Ismail Khan...
. Marwat is the cousin tribe of Niazi
Niazi
The Niazi are a tribe of Ghilzai Pashtun people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkey. The name Niazi is derived from Niazai, like the other forms of Pashtun tribes, such as Yusufzai and Orakzai...
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- Khan Habibullah KhanKhan Habibullah KhanHabibullah Khan Marwat was a politician and former Peshawar High Court judge. In 1937, Habibullah Khan joined the Khaksar movement and worked in the North West Frontier Province...
was a justice of West Pakistan High Court, first Chairman of the Senate of PakistanSenate of PakistanThe Senate of Pakistan is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Pakistan. Elections are held every three years for one half of the senate and each senator has a term of six years...
, and briefly acting President of Pakistan - Anwar Kamal KhanAnwar Kamal KhanAnwar Kamal Khan Marwat Mina Khel is a Pakistani politician.He is a senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League He is the son of Justice Khan Habibullah Khan and elder brother of a senior Pakistani Civil Servant Akhter Munir Khan Marwat...
, a former senator and a former member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Anwar Saifullah KhanAnwar Saifullah KhanAnwar Saifullah Khan is a politician of Pakistan and is currently a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. He hails from District Lakki Marwat and has remained a Federal Minister under the Premiership of Benazir Bhutto. Anwar Saifullah Khan has remained federal Minister three...
, currently a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and formerly a federal minister - Salim Saifullah Khan, currently a senator, and formerly a federal and provincial minister
- Irfanullah Khan MarwatIrfanullah Khan MarwatIrfanullah Khan Marwat is a Pakistani politician. He has served as a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh and a Provincial Minister in Sindh, Pakistan. Irfanullah Khan Marwat has held numerous portfolios in the Sindh Government since 1989 including transport, health, home, education and...
, a former provincial minister in SindhSindhSindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can... - Mir Nawaz Khan MarwatMir Nawaz Khan MarwatMir Nawaz Khan Marwat is a well known elderly lawyer of Sindh High Court.- Biography :Mir Nawaz Khan Marwat has participated in global peace movements for the last 20 years and has presented several papers on bridging the gap between different civilizations. He was a Federal Minister in the...
, a senior advocate of the Supreme Court of PakistanSupreme Court of PakistanThe Supreme Court is the apex court in Pakistan's judicial hierarchy, the final arbiter of legal and constitutional disputes. The Supreme Court has a permanent seat in Islamabad. It has number of Branch Registries where cases are heard. It has a number of de jure powers which are outlined in the...
and a former federal minister - Shah Nawaz KhanShah Nawaz Khan (Chief Justice)Justice Shah Nawaz Khan, was a Mina Khel, Marwat, from Lakki Marwat District, Pakistan.He remained the Chief Justice of North-West Frontier Province and later remained Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan from 05-04-1981 to 01-07-1982 .-See also:* Marwat...
, a former Chief Justice of NWFP and a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan - Sher Afzal Khan is a former Judicial officer who belongs to Begukhel tribe.
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