Iftikhar Hussain Shah
Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah was a governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Iftikhar Hussain Shah was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in October 1964 in 30th PMA Long Course and joined an anti-aircraft unit of the Regiment of Artillery. He later joined and graduated from Army Aviation School to become a pilot in the army. In 1993, Iftikhar Hussain Shah served in Inter-Services Intelligence as the Deputy DG of External Wing under Lt Gen Javed Ashraf Qazi.
After his retirement from the Army in 2000, he was appointed Minister for Communications and later he became Governor of NWFP, a position which he held for 4½ years. He served as an Ambassador in Turkey. He served as an advisor with UN in Pakistan. He worked as the MD Zulfiqarabad Development Authority. On May 21, 2016, he joined the political party Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf.
He was married and had three daughters.
