 Sherpao started his political career with Pakistan Peoples Party in 1975 after taking retirement from Pakistan Army on the advice of then Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after his elder brother Hayat Sherpao was assassinated in a bomb blast in Peshawar.He was elected to National Assembly of Pakistan for the first time in 1977 Pakistani general election on Pakistan Peoples Party seat.from NA-3.