Nasrullah Khan Khattak

Nasrullah Khan Khattak in Peshawar (1973)

Nasrullah Khan Khattak, son of Mir Aslam Khan Khattak, was a Pakistani politician from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. He was born in 1928 in the village of Manki, Nowshera District. He went to Aitchison College Lahore, which at the time was known as Chiefs College. He was the Chief Minister of the province from the May 3, 1973 to April 19, 1977.^[1] He was also ambassador to Tunisia during his political career and one of the founding members of the PPP. He was defeated in the 1977 election and was never re-elected to the assembly. In his later years he joined Tehrik-e-Istiqlal of Asghar Khan.

With his first wife, Taj Begum, he had four sons - Tariq Khattak, Khalid Khattak, Qasim Khattak and Mahmood Khattak and two daughters, Rakhshanda Khattak and Saeeda Khattak. From his second wife, Ghazala Rasool, he had two sons and a daughter, Hamayun Khattak, Aurangzeb Khattak and Naushin Khattak. Nasrullah Khan Khattak lived on an estate on the hills of Manki village, with a panoramic view of Nowshera during the last decade of his life.

He died on November 2, 2009 and was buried in ancestral graveyard in the village in Manki Sharif.

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