Aleem Khan

Abdul Aleem Khan
Federal Minister for Privatisation
Assumed office
11 March 2024
Prime MinisterShehbaz Sharif
Preceded byFawad Hasan Fawad
Federal Minister for Communications
Assumed office
11 March 2024
Prime MinisterShehbaz Sharif
Preceded byShahid Ashraf Tarar
Chairman of the Board of Investment
Assumed office
11 March 2024
Prime MinisterShehbaz Sharif
Preceded by[Mr. Rahim Hayat Qureshi (Acting)]
President of the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party
Assumed office
12 June 2023
Preceded byPosition established
Member of National Assembly of Pakistan
Assumed office
29 February 2024
ConstituencyNA-117 Lahore-I
Provincial Minister of Punjab for Food
In office
13 April 2020 – 26 November 2021
GovernorChaudhry Mohammad Sarwar
Chief MinisterUsman Buzdar
Provincial Minister of Punjab for Local Governments and Community Development
In office
27 August 2018 – 6 February 2019
GovernorChaudhry Mohammad Sarwar
Chief MinisterUsman Buzdar
Provincial Minister of Punjab for Planning and Development
In office
27 August 2018 – 6 February 2019
GovernorChaudhry Mohammad Sarwar
Chief MinisterUsman Buzdar
Provincial Minister of Punjab for Information Technology
In office
2003–2007
GovernorKhalid Maqbool
Chief MinisterChaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab
In office
15 August 2018 – 20 May 2022
SpeakerChaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
Succeeded byMian Akram Usman
ConstituencyPP-158 (Lahore-XV)
In office
2002–2007
ConstituencyPP-147 (Lahore-XI)
Personal details
Born (1970-03-05) 5 March 1970 (age 54)
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Political party IPP (2023-present)
Other political
affiliations
PTI (2012–2022)
PML-Q (2002–2012)

Abdul Aleem Khan (born 5 March 1970) is a Pakistani politician and businessman from Lahore. Abdul Aleem Khan currently serves as a member of the National Assembly after being elected from Constituency NA 117, Shahdara Lahore in the general elections held on 8 February 2024.[1] Abdul Aleem Khan owns PEMRA Samaa TV and Vision Group. He was also the Senior Minister of Punjab and Minister of Food from 2020 to 2021. He also served as a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from August 2018 to 2021. He announced his separation from politics on Twitter in a tweet.[2] Later in a statement to the media, he said that he had no intentions of joining politics again and that he would focus on the welfare through the Abdul Aleem Khan Foundation. In June 2023 he launched the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party along with Jahangir Khan Tareen. He is a founding member and the incumbent president of the party.[3][4][5]

He held Senior Minister of the Punjab and Minister for Local Government & Community Development portfolios from 2018 to 2019 under the Usman Buzdar government, but stepped down after his arrest in an alleged corruption case involving offshore companies in the Panama Leaks and assets beyond means.[6] He was member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from 2003 to 2007 and served as Provincial Minister for Information Technology of Punjab during the same period.

  1. ^ https://na.gov.pk/en/index.php [bare URL]
  2. ^ @abdul_aleemkhan (26 November 2021). "وزیراعظم عمران خان سے آج ھونے والی ملاقات میں اُنہیں قائل کیا ھے اپنے نیوز چینل سماء نیوز کے حوالے سے غیر جانبداری قائم رکھنے کے لئے ضروری ھے میرے پاس کوئی حکومتی عہدہ نہ ھو لہذا وہ بطور سینئر وزیر/وزیر خوراک حکومت پنجاب اب میرا استعفی قبول فرما لیں۔ 1/2" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ "I am pleased to announce Abdul Aleem Khan as the President of Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party. Aamir Mehmood Kiyani as Secretary General. Awn Chaudhary as Additional Secretary General & Spokesperson of the Party as well as of the Patron-in-Chief. More announcements to follow Inshallah'".
  4. ^ "Aleem, Awn Chaudhry dismiss reports of forming 'new party'".
  5. ^ "Jahangir Tareen launches 'grandiose' Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party'". 8 June 2023.
  6. ^ "PTI's Aleem Khan arrested by NAB". The Express Tribune. 6 February 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2023.