Mir Kalam

Mir Kalam Khan Wazir (Pashto/Urdu: ) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from August 2019 till January 2023. He is a founding member of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM).

On 30 August 2020, Mir Kalam survived an assassination attempt by two gunmen as he was traveling in his car in Mirali, North Waziristan after participating in a protest. He lamented that the police had not made any progress in investigating the case.

Early life and education Mir Kalam was born and raised in Asadkhel, a village about northeast of the hill station of Razmak, in the Dossali Subdivision of North Waziristan, Pakistan. In 2011, he graduated from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Peshawar.

He was elected unopposed to the Senior Vice President position of the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party's (PKMAP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter during the party's national congress held between 19 and 21 December 2022. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) notified his election on 9 January 2023.