[1] He received 48,616 votes and defeated Abdul Latif, a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
[2] Earlier to this, He has also served Chitral District of KP as MNA in Gen (R) Musharraf led government back in 2002.
On April 6, 2023, Maulana Abdul Akbar Chatrali demanded action in the pattern of operations in Malakand Division and Swat on the new wave of terrorism in the southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, North Waziristan, Lakki Marwat and Dera Ismail Khan.
[3] On May 17, 2021, Chitrali appeared to call for the use of nuclear weapons against Israel and, potentially, India, asking: "when will this atomic power be useful?
Or will we keep these missiles and this atom bomb in some museum, so that we will be able to say [in the future] that at a certain era we had managed to acquire nuclear power?