Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao (Urdu: آفتاب احمد خان شیرپاو; born 20 August 1944) is a Pakistani politician who is the current chairman of the centre-left Pashtun nationalist Qaumi Watan Party, after previously being a member of the Pakistan Peoples Party.

[9] He was elected as the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 1988[8] and remained in the office from 2 December 1988 till 8 August 1990.

[9] He was re-elected as the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 1994 following 1993 Pakistani general election, in which he defeated Afzal Khamosh of the Mazdoor Kisan Party by a narrow margin of 54 votes.

[7][8] It was reported that differences between Sherpao and Benazir Bhutto were cropped after the defeat of PPP in 1997 Pakistani general election.

[8] After 1999 Pakistani coup d'état, he went into self-exile in the United Kingdom due to multiple corruption cases.

[15] In December 2002, Sherpao was given additional charge of Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas and State of Frontier Region.

[18][19] After getting re-elected to the National Assembly in 2008 Pakistani general election from his home constituency, NA-8, Charsadda,[20][21] he formed Qaumi Watan Party.

[5] In December 2007, second assassination attempt was made when a suicide bomb blast targeted Sherpao which killed at least 57 in a mosque in Charsadda.