Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan

Nisar Ali Khan
چوہدری نثار علی خان
Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab
In office
26 May 2021 – 14 January 2023
ConstituencyPP-10 (Rawalpindi-V)
34th Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control
In office
7 June 2013 – 28 July 2017
PresidentMamnoon Hussain
Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif
Preceded byMalik Habib
Succeeded byAhsan Iqbal
Leader of the Opposition
In office
17 September 2008 – 7 June 2013
PresidentAsif Ali Zardari
Prime MinisterYusuf Raza Gillani
Preceded byChaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
Succeeded bySyed Khurshid Ahmed Shah
Minister for National Food Security & Research
In office
31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008
Prime MinisterYusuf Raza Gillani
Preceded bySikandar Hayat Khan Bosan
Succeeded byNazar Muhammad Gondal
3rd Senior Minister of Pakistan
In office
31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008
PresidentPervez Musharraf
Prime MinisterYusuf Raza Gillani
Preceded byRao Sikandar Iqbal
Succeeded byChaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
Minister for Communications
In office
29 March 2008 – 13 May 2008
PresidentPervez Musharraf
Prime MinisterYusuf Raza Gillani
Preceded byMuhammad Shamim Siddiqui
Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination
In office
1997–1999
PresidentWasim Sajjad
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif
Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources
In office
1997–1999
PresidentWasim Sajjad
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif
In office
1990–1993
PresidentGhulam Ishaq Khan
Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif
Minister for Science and Technology
In office
June 1988 – December 1988
Preceded byMalik Naeem Khan Awan
Succeeded byJehangir Bader
Personal details
Born (1954-07-31) 31 July 1954 (age 70)[1]
Chakri, Punjab, Pakistan
Political partyIndependent (2018-present)
Other political
affiliations
Pakistan Muslim League (N) (1993-2018)
Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (before 1993)
RelativesIftikhar Ali Khan (brother)

Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan (Urdu: چوہدری نِثار علی خان; born 31 July 1954) is a Pakistani politician who served as the Interior Minister from 2013 to 2017. He had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from August 2018 till January 2023.[2] He however was unsuccessful in winning a National Assembly seat.[3] A former leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Khan had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 1985 and May 2018. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly from 2008 to 2013.

Born in Chakri, Khan was educated at Army Burn Hall College. Khan has served in various federal cabinet positions since 1988. He briefly served as the Science and Technology Minister in 1988. During Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's first and second tenures, he held the cabinet portfolio of Petroleum and Natural Resources Minister. During the Gillani ministry, he briefly served as the Food, Agriculture and Livestock Minister with the additional portfolio of Communications Minister. In June 2013, during the third Sharif ministry, he was appointed as the Interior Minister, which he held until the dissolution of the federal cabinet in July 2017 following the dismissal of Sharif by the Supreme Court.

He took oath as Member of Provincial Assembly of Punjab on 26 May 2021.

  1. ^ "Detail Information". www.pildat.org. PILDAT. Archived from the original on 21 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ Sheikh, Adnan (26 May 2021). "Chaudhry Nisar takes oath as MPA almost 3 years after being elected". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  3. ^ "PP-10 Results - Election 2018 Results - - Candidates List - Constituency Details - Geo.tv". www.geo.tv. Retrieved 18 July 2019.