Zeyad Durrani from Bannu became the 10th member of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly who died before completing his parliamentary tenure. Accrediting him as the youngest parliamentarian with election to National Assembly from NA-26 Bannu on a Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) ticket in 2007, Durrani breathed his last on Thursday due to a cardiac arrest. The elder son of former chief minister Akram Khan Durrani, Zeyad was elected to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in February 2008 general elections. In 2007, a law graduate from Peshawar University, Zeyad had accredited himself as the youngest parliamentarian in the world. Awami National Party’s Alamzeb Khan was the first ever member of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly who fell victim of a terrorist attack in February 2009. Later, his brother Aurangzeb was elected in a by-election. In the same year, PPP’s Iftikhar Shagai from Mardan lost his life in a road accident in Rahim Yar Khan. Dr Shamsher Ali Khan of the ANP was then killed in a suicide attack on his house in Dherai village of Swat in 2010. In the same year, Akhtar Nawaz Khan from Haripur was killed in an ambush related to personal enmity. Maj (r) Latifullah Khan Alizai of the PPP from Dera Ismail Khan also lost his life as a result of cardiac arrest in 2010. Dr Khalid Raza Zakori from Lakki Marwat died as a result of cardiac arrest, also in 2010. Amir Gulistan Betani of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam also died during the same year, as did Mohammad Zahir Shah of the PML-Q. Maulana Obaiduullah of the ANP from Kohistan died of cardiac arrest in 2011.
