Wajih uz Zaman Khan was born in 1963 to a Swati family of the Mansehra, Hazara region. His late father, Facker uz Zaman Khan, was descended from the upstart family of the so-called "Khans of Agror", a group of mullahs who had once ruled the Oghi/Agror area and were later deposed in 1888 by the British colonial government, and his mother, Fauzia Facker uz Zaman, formerly a member of the Senate of Pakistan, came from a humble family of Lahore, Punjab.
After obtaining his basic school education, Khan claims he went on to take a Bachelor of Arts degree and then a law degree from the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. After his father"s death, Khan was expected to enter politics in the family tradition, but he went on to study for his law degree and eventually took up the legal profession under the Peshawar High Court and for some years, occupied himself with taking up various private lawsuits. However, he was later dismissed from the PML-North party on disciplinary grounds, allegedly having sold out during the March 2015 senate elections.
Khan also came into some disrepute in November 2012 when he was involved in a shoot-out over the setting up of a shop or kiosk in Islamabad, in which he was wounded.
Some doubts also exist as to the validity of his higher educational degrees, which have not been verified in accordance with election regulations. In recent years, many questions have also been raised about his possible corruption and large-scale embezzlement of public funds in several projects.
By the mid-1990s, he became increasingly involved in politics, and first contested the 1993 General Elections in Pakistan on a Pakistan Muslim League-North ticket, as a candidate for the PK-56 Mansehra provincial seat. In 2013 he won on the Pakistan Muslim League-North ticket.
He was successful in winning this and thereafter retained his seat in this constituency, switching parties a number of times, to remain a member of the North-West Frontier Province/Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly.
