Nisar Ali Khan

Nisar Ali Khan is a Pakistani politician who served as the Interior Minister from 2013 to 2017.

He is currently an independent member-elect of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab – elected to represent PP-10 – having won in the General Election 2018.

Nisar Ali Khan served as country’s Interior Minister from year 2013 when his party PML-N came to power in year 2.

A member of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Khan has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since 1985 representing Rawalpindi, and was the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly from 2008 to 2013.

Born in Chakri Vakilan, 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 ministries, 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

Khan began his political career in the 1980s. He became close to Nawaz Sharif during the rule of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq