Biography
Afrasiab Khattak is born in a small vlillage known as, Mandoori Khaderkhal, Kohat Division of the North-West Frontier Province of West-Pakistan. After receiving his early education from from Kohat, Khattak was admitted at the Peshawar University. There, Khattak obtained B.A. in Russian history and the B.Sc. in Political Science and wrote a senior thesis on Comparative law, and published through the university press. During this time, Khattak was also the student leader at the local university union and took active participation during his college times.
During this time, Khattak became an active member of Communist Party of Pakistan. He was an active leftist politician during the 1970s and 1980s. He spent many years in self-exile in Afghanistan in the 1980s, due to his strong opposition to General Zia-ul-Haq's military rule.
After his return from Afghanistan, Khattak contested the general elections from Karak in 1990 but lost to Aslam Khattak.
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