Shehryar Khan Afridi (Urdu: شہریار خان آفریدی; born 12 March 1971) is a Pakistani politician who served as Chairperson of the Parliamentary Special Committee on Kashmir, in office from 13 May 2020 to April 2022.
[4] A native of Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, his father Nadir Shah Afridi served as a district counsellor and later became a member of parliament, while one of his brothers, Major (r) Tariq Javed, worked in the bureaucracy following his retirement from the armed forces.
[8] Afridi ran for the seat of National Assembly of Pakistan as an independent candidate from Constituency NA-14 (Kohat) in 2002 Pakistani general election[9] but was unsuccessful.
[16] He received 82,248 votes and defeated Gohar Mohammad Khan Bangash, a candidate of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA).
[21] In October 2018, Afridi was accused of using public funds worth millions of rupees to renovate and redecorate his new residence.