Born in Mardan on 5th February, 1971, Amir Haidar Khan Hoti is the grandson of two heavy weights of Freedom Movement and Pakhtun Nationalist Politicians. His maternal grandfather was Khan Abdul Wali Khan and
Amir Haider Khan Hoti
Born in Mardan on 5th February, 1971, Amir Haidar Khan Hoti is the grandson of two heavy weights of Freedom Movement and Pakhtun Nationalist Politicians. His maternal grandfather was Khan Abdul Wali Khan and paternal grandfather was Amir Muhammad Khan Hoti, who used to be called 'Khan Lala' out of respect and love, a close colleague of Khan Abdul ghafar Khan, who was popularly known as Baacha Khan and active participant of Khudai Khidmatgar Movement.
He is the son of former federal Minister Azam Khan Hoti and the nephew of present ANP president Asfandyar Wali Khan. He has two sons and one daughter. He did his intermediate from Aitcheson College Lahore and then graduated from Edwards College Peshawar.
Amir Haidar Khan Hoti started his political career in 1990 as ANP’s city organizer of district Mardan. Currently he is a Provincial Deputy Secretary of ANP. He contested election for the first time for Provincial seat from Mardan constituency in October 2002 elections but lost to former MMA's Deputy Speaker Ikramullah Shahid.
In 2008 Elections he contested for PF-23 Mardan and won from his old rivals Ikramullah Shahid and Arshad Ahmed with a big margin of 4500 votes. He was unanimously nominated by the Awami National Party (ANP) legislators for slot of the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtun Khaw (KPK). He was elected unopposed on March 31 and took oath of his office on April 1, 2008 with the coalition of PPP.
During his service, besides other contributions, his main focus was on education and development and nurturing of three new universities (Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Bacha Khan University Charsadda and Anbar University Sawabi) with more than 10 campuses in the province speak of his dedication to education. His government, for the first time in the history of KPK, provided scholarships to send the scholars abroad for higher education and started schemes for students to provide them free laptops on the basis of merit/finance.
He is having fluency in Pushto, Urdu and English language. Being a worker of ANP he has got a prestigious position in the party. He is famous and a renowned personality among the masses.