MNA Nisar Ali Khan |
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Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control | |
Assumed office 7 June 2013 |
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President | Mamnoon Hussain |
Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
Preceded by | Malik Habib |
Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly | |
In office 17 September 2008 – 7 June 2013 |
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President | Asif Ali Zardari |
Prime Minister | Yousaf Raza Gillani |
Preceded by | Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi |
Succeeded by | Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah |
Minister for National Food Security & Research | |
In office 31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008 |
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President | Asif Ali Zardari |
Prime Minister | Yousaf Raza Gillani |
Preceded by | Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan |
Succeeded by | Nazar Muhammad Gondal |
Minister for Communications | |
In office 29 March 2008 – 13 May 2008 |
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President | Asif Ali Zardari |
Prime Minister | Yousaf Raza Gillani |
Preceded by | Muhammad Shamim Saiddiqui |
Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination | |
In office 1997–1999 |
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President |
Wasim Sajjad Muhammad Rafiq Tarar |
Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources | |
In office 1997–1999 |
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President |
Wasim Sajjad Muhammad Rafiq Tarar |
Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
In office 1990–1993 |
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President | Ghulam Ishaq Khan |
Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
Minister for Science and Technology | |
In office June 1988 – December 1988 |
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Preceded by | Malik Naeem Khan Awan |
Succeeded by | Jehangir Bader |
Personal details | |
Born |
Chakri Vakilan, Rawalpindi, Pakistan |
31 July 1954
Nationality | Pakistan |
Political party | Pakistan Muslim League (N) |
Relatives | Iftikhar Ali Khan (general) (brother) |
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan (Urdu: چوہدری نثار علی خان; born 31 July 1954) is a Pakistani politician who is the current Interior Minister of Pakistan, in office since June 2013. A member of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Khan has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since 1985 representing Rawalpindi, serving as Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly from 2008 to 2013.
Born in Chakri Vakilan, Khan was educated at the Aitchison College and Army Burn Hall College. Khan has served as a member of the federal cabinet, in various positions, since 1988. He briefly served as the Science and Technology Minister of Pakistan in 1988. During the Sharif's first and second ministry, he held the cabinet portfolio of Petroleum and Natural Resources Minister of Pakistan. During the Gillani ministry, he briefly served as the Food, Agriculture and Livestock Minister for Pakistan with the additional portfolio of Communications Minister of Pakistan. In June 2013, during the third Sharif ministry, he was appointed as the Minister for Interior of Pakistan.