Shahram Khan  Shahram Khan Tarakai is a Pakistani politician who is the current Provincial Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Local Government, Elections and Rural Development, in office since 29 August 2018. He has been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since August 2018. Previously, he was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from May 2013 to May 2018. During his first tenure as Member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, he served as Provincial Minister for agriculture, Health between June 2013 and May 2018. He was dismissed as a minister of health on 26 January 2020 by the Chief minister on the instructions of Prime minister Imran Khan. Shahram Khan was born in Tarakai House of Tehsil Razar, District Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to a well known Industrialist and Politician Liaqat Khan Tarakai. He is the eldest amongst his siblings. Shahram Khan got his early life education at Fazal Haq College Mardan and Edwards College Peshawar before travelling to the UK and Australia for further studies. Khan for the first time entered in to politics in 2005 after coming from abroad when he ran for District Nazim in 2005 Local Government Elections and won the office on huge margin. In his tenure as a District Nazim, both Pervez Musharraf the then President of Pakistan and Shaukat Aziz the then Prime Minister of Pakistan visited Swabi and announced huge amount for Municipal purposes. He co-founded Awami Jamhuri Ittehad Pakistan (AJIP) in 2010. He ran for the seat of the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of AJIP from Constituency NA-13 (Swabi-II) in 2013 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 14,495 votes and lost the seat to Asad Qaiser. In the same election, he was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a candidate of AJIP from Constituency PK-32 (Swabi-II). He received 20,111 votes and defeated Amir Rehman, a candidate of Awami National Party (ANP). Following the election, AJIP forged coalition with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). On 14 June 2013, he was inducted into the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet of Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and was appointed as Provincial Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for agriculture.