Shakeel Ahmad son of Rafiq Ahmed, a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader, represented PK-99 Malakand Protected Area-II in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from 2013 to 2018. He was elected in the 2013 general election. During his tenure, he served as Special Assistant to the Chief Minister on Population Welfare. In the 2018 general election, he was re-elected from PK-18 Malakand Protected Area-I and inducted into the provincial cabinet as Minister for Revenue. Later, in May 2021, he was assigned the portfolio of Minister for Public Health Engineering.