Jamal Malyar
Jamal Malyar Maseed is a Pakistani politician and one of the leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement . Malyar belongs to the Mahsud tribe of South Waziristan, Pakistan. He is a member of the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party.
Political career
In the 2018 [Pakistani general election], Jamal Malyar contested NA-49 (Tribal Area-X) South Waziristan as a candidate from the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, but lost to the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal candidate Maulana Jamal ud Din.In the 2019 [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election], Malyar contested PK-113 as an independent candidate. However, the administration of South Waziristan restricted him to his house because of which he could not run an election campaign. Hafiz Assamuddin of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) won the election. "The administration gave me no reason for imposing this sort of house arrest," Malyar said.