List of chief ministers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Seal of the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Incumbent Ali Amin Gandapur since 2 March 2024
Member of	Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Appointer	Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Term length	Five years (maximum)
Inaugural holder	Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum
Formation	1 April 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	2 Months and 11 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	9 months, 21 days		Caretaker
		Arshad Hussain Shah [44]	November 12, 2023	March 1, 2024	3 months, 20 days
29		Ali Amin Gandapur	March 2, 2024		1 year, 192 days		PTI	Faisal Karim Kundi

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