Abdullah Nangyal


Abdullah Nangyal Bettani is a Pakistani politician and a leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement.
In February 2019, Nangyal was arrested by the police from Islamabad along with over 20 other PTM activists including Gulalai Ismail during protests against the extrajudicial murder of one of the leaders of PTM, Arman Loni. The arrests received widespread criticism in Pakistan and internationally, including condemnation from the President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani, Amnesty International, and the Pakistan Peoples Party.

Political career

In the 2013 general election, Nangyal contested for NA-47 Frontier Regions as an independent candidate but lost and got 4,131 votes. The winner was the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf candidate Qaiser Jamal, who got 11,328 votes.
In the 2018 general election, Nangyal contested for NA-51 Frontier Regions as an independent candidate but lost and got 5,157 votes. The winner was the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal candidate Mufti Abdul Shakoor, who got 21,896 votes.