The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has nominated Sohail Afridi, having a background of a student leader, as Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) replacing blunt Ali Amin Gandapur.
Sohail Afridi has led the Insaf Students Federation (ISF) in the province while Afridi is the PTI’s central executive committee member.
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He belongs to Khyber district and is serving his first term as a member of the provincial assembly from PK-70.
Afridi initially, during Gandapur government, served as Special Assistant to the Chief Minister for Communication and Works.
Following a reshuffle in the provincial cabinet, he was appointed as Minister for Higher Education.
Afridi’s political sojourn within the PTI has been marked by steady organisational growth and close association with the party’s student and youth wings.
