Kalam contested the
2019 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election on 20 July 2019 from constituency PK-112 (North Waziristan-II) as an
independent. He won the election by the majority of 4,079 votes over the runner up Mir Sadiqullah of
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F). He garnered 12,057 votes while Sadiqullah received 7,978 votes. He was elected unopposed to the Senior Vice President position of the
Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party's (PKMAP)
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter during the party's national congress held between 19 and 21 December 2022. The
Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) notified his election on 9 January 2023. ==References==