Shabir Ahmad

Muhammad Ilyas Khan

Age: 51years

Candidate From: NA-1 (Peshawar 1)

Party: Jamat e Islami (Muttahida Majlis e Amal)

Address (Peshawar):
House Number 870, Muhalla Afghan Colony, Peshawar City
Phone: 92(91)240666

Address (Islamabad):
A-402, Parliament Lodges, Islamabad

The Jamaat's Frontier Naib Amir defeated the ANP's Usman Bashir Bilour in an exciting contest in Peshawar. Shabir Ahmad was born in Marghuz, Swabi in 1951, matriculated at a school in Dera Ismail Khan and graduated from Government College Peshawar in 1974. He joined the Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) in 1968 and went to become its Peshawar as well as Frontier Nazim. Between 1979 and 1982, he served three consecutive terms as the IJT's central chief. As a student leader, he visited Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Bangladesh and Iran, and met leaders like Imam Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, and Colonel Qaddafi. More recently, he traveled through 22 US states on the invitation of the Islamic Circle of North America. Shabir Ahmad was frequently in Afghanistan during the Jehad era and spent several days with the then little known Osama bin Laden and his companions in the Spina Shagga area in 1984. He was part of almost every JI committee formed to negotiate peace between the Mujahideen factions after civil war broke out in Afghanistan in 1992. He was also involved in the early planning phase of the Kashmir Jehad in the late 80s but says he never entered Indian held Kashmir. Since 1982, he has been running a successful electronics business in Peshawar.