PESHAWAR: Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has resigned as the senior vice president of the Awami National Party (ANP).
The ANP leader announced his resignation as the senior vice president in a social media post on X.
Hoti claimed the responsibility for his defeat from his ancestral constituency [of NA-22 Mardan in the elections], acknowleding that the electorate did not pose confidence in him.
He remarked that he would continue to be part of the caravan of Bacha Khan as a humble member of the party.
In another post, Hoti, while gracefully embracing defeat in the elections, congratulated newly elected MNA Atif Khan and MPA Abdul Salam Khan, hoping they would serve the constituents. Hoti, the nephew of ANP President Asfandyar Wali Khan, served as the youngest and longest-serving elected chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa between 2008 and 2013.
Hoti was born on 5 February 1971 to the former federal minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azam Khan Hoti. Hoti is a nephew of Asfandyar Wali Khan, the president of ANP. He has two sons and one daughter. He received his education from Aitchison College, and graduated from Edwardes College Peshawar.
Hoti started his political career in 1990.
He ran for the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from Mardan constituency in 2002 Pakistani general election, but was unsuccessful. –Agencies
