He is credited with achieving provincial autonomy in Pakistan and renaming the North-West Frontier Province to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with the support of coalition partner PPP during the 18th Amendment in 2010.

[citation needed] Asfandyar Wali Khan was born in Charsadda, a small village near Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

[citation needed] He is the grandson of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, better known as Bacha Khan, wo founded the non-violent political movement Khudai Khidmatgar ("Servants of the God") in the NWFP during British colonial rule in India and a companion of Mahatma Gandhi.

[citation needed] Asfandyar Wali Khan received his early education at Aitchison College in Lahore, completed high school at Islamia Collegiate School, and earned his Bachelor's degree from Islamia College, University of Peshawar, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

[6] On 3 October 2008, Wali Khan survived an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber while greeting guests during Eid ul-Fitr.

Contrary to opposition claims that he fled to London, Asfandyar stayed in Charsadda and led his party in the fight against terrorism.