List of chief ministers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Seal of the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Incumbent Sohail Afridi since 15 October 2025
Member of	Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Appointer	Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Term length	Five years
Inaugural holder	Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum
Formation	April 1, 1937;88 years ago (1937-04-01)

The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the head of the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is elected by the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for a maximum of five years.

Parties

Sunni Ittehad Council   Pakistan Muslim League   Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F)   Pakistan People’s Party   Islami Jamhoori Ittehad

Pakistan Muslim League (N)   Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal   Awami National Party   Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

List of chief ministers

N	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Duration	Party		Appointed by (Governor)
1		Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum	1 April 1937	7 September 1937	5 Months and 6 Days		United Muslims Nationalist Party [1]	Lord Linlithgow (Governor-General)
2		Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan [2] [3] (1st time)	7 September 1937	10 November 1939	2 Years, 2 Months and 3 Days		Indian National Congress	George Cunningham
3		Sardar Aurang Zeb Khan	25 May 1943	16 March 1945	1 Year, 10 Months and 21 Days		All-India Muslim League	George Cunningham
4		Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan [2] [3] (2nd time)	16 March 1945	22 August 1947	2 Years, 5 Months and 6 Days		Indian National Congress	George Cunningham
								Olaf Caroe
5		Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri [2]	August 23, 1947	April 23, 1953	5 years and 8 months		Pakistan Muslim League	George Cunningham
								Ambrose Flux Dundas
								Sahibzada Mohammad Khurshid
								Justice K.B Mohammad Ibrahim Khan (acting)
								Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar
								Khwaja Shahabuddin
6		Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan [2]	April 23, 1953	July 18, 1955	2 years, 2 months and 25 days		Pakistan Muslim League
								Qurban Ali Khan
7		Sardar Bahadur Khan [2]	July 19, 1955	October 14, 1955	2 months and 25 days		Pakistan Muslim League
8		Mufti Mahmud [2]	March 1, 1972	February 15, 1973	11 months & 15 days		Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam	Arbab Sikandar Khan
9		Sardar Inayatullah Khan Gandapur [2]	April 29, 1973	February 16, 1975	1 years, 10 months and 17 days		PPP	Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak
								Syed Ghawas
10		Nasrullah Khan Khattak [2] [4]	May 3, 1975	April 9, 1977	1 year, 11 months and 24 days		PPP	Syed Ghawas
								Naseerullah Babar
11		Muhammad Iqbal Khan Jadoon [2] [5]	April 9, 1977	July 5, 1977	1 month and 26 days		PPP
12		Arbab Jehangir Khan [2] [6]	April 7, 1985	May 31, 1988	3 years, 1 month and 24 days		IND	Fazle Haq
								Abdul Ghafoor Khan
								Syed Usman Ali Shah
								Fida Mohammad Khan
13		Fazle Haq [2]	May 31, 1988	December 2, 1988	6 months and 2 days		Caretaker
								Amir Gulistan Janjua
14		Aftab Ahmad Sherpao [7] [2] (1st time)	December 2, 1988	August 7, 1990	1 year, 7 months & 25 days		PPP
15		Mir Afzal Khan [2] (acting till 8 Nov 1990)	August 7, 1990	July 19, 1993	2 years, 11 months and 17 days		IJI
								Khurshid Ali Khan
16		Mufti Muhammad Abbas [2]	July 20, 1993	October 20, 1993	3 months		Caretaker
17		Pir Sabir Shah [2]	October 20, 1993	February 25, 1994	4 months and 5 days		PMLN
18		Aftab Ahmad Sherpao [7] (2nd time)	April 24, 1994	November 12, 1996	2 years, 6 months and 18 days		PPP	Khurshid Ali Khan
								Justice Said Ibne Ali (acting)
								Arif Bangash
19		Raja Sikander Zaman [2]	November 12, 1996	February 21, 1997	3 months and 9 days		Caretaker
20		Mehtab Ahmed Khan [8] [2]	February 21, 1997	October 12, 1999	2 years, 7 months, 21 days		PMLN
								Miangul Aurangzeb [9]
21		Akram Khan Durrani [10] [11] [12]	November 30, 2002	October 11, 2007	4 years, 315 days (Full Term)		JUI (F)	Iftikhar Hussain Shah [13] [14]
								Khalilur Rehman [15]
								Ali Jan Aurakzai [16] [17]
22		Shamsul Mulk [18] [19]	October 11, 2007	March 31, 2008	5 months & 20 days		Caretaker
								Owais Ahmed Ghani [17]
23		Haider Khan Hoti [20] [21] [22] [23]	March 31, 2008	March 20, 2013	4 years, 354 days (Full Term)		ANP
								Syed Masood Kausar [24]
								Shaukatullah Khan [25] [26]
24		Tariq Pervez Khan [27] [28]	March 20, 2013	May 31, 2013	2 Months and 11 days		Caretaker
25		Pervez Khattak [29] [30]	May 31, 2013	June 6, 2018	5 years, 6 days (Full Term)		PTI
								Mehtab Ahmed Khan [31] [32]
								Iqbal Zafar Jhagra [33] [34]
26		Dost Muhammad Khan (Justice) [35] [36] [37] [38]	June 6, 2018	August 16, 2018	72 days		Caretaker
27		Mahmood Khan [39] [40] [41]	August 17, 2018	January 21, 2023	4 years, 158 days		PTI
								Shah Farman [42]
								Haji Ghulam Ali
28		Muhammad Azam Khan (civil servant) [43]	January 21, 2023	November 11, 2023	291 days		Caretaker
		Arshad Hussain Shah [44]	November 12, 2023	March 1, 2024	80 days
29		Ali Amin Gandapur	March 2, 2024	October 8, 2025	1 year, 220 days		PTI	Faisal Karim Kundi
30		Sohail Afridi	October 15, 2025	Incumbent	8 days					PTI

See also

• List of prime ministers of Pakistan
• List of presidents of Pakistan
• Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• List of chief ministers of Punjab
• List of chief ministers of Sindh
• List of chief ministers of Balochistan

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External links

• Functions Of Chief Minister's Secretariat
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly