Shaharyar Khan
| Nawabzada Shahryar M. Khan | |
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| Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board | |
| Mustaqeemullah Shah | |
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Assumed office August 18th, 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Najam Sethi |
| Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board | |
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In office December 2003 – October 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Lieutenant general Tauqir Zia |
| Succeeded by | Nasim Ashraf |
| 20th Foreign Secretary of Pakistan | |
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In office 1990–1994 |
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| Preceded by | Tanvir Ahmad Khan |
| Succeeded by | Najmuddin Shaikh |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
29 March 1934 Bhopal, Bhopal State, British India (now in Madhya Pradesh, India) |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Parents | Sarwar Ali Khan Abida Sultan |
| Relatives |
Hamidullah Khan (grandfather) Sajida Sultan (aunt) Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (cousin) Saif Ali Khan (nephew) Soha Ali Khan (niece) |
| Residence | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Alma mater |
Daly College University of Cambridge The Fletcher School |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
Nawabzada Shahryar Mohammad Khan (Urdu: شہریار محمد خان; born 12 March 1934) is a former career Pakistan diplomat who rose to the position of Foreign Secretary of Pakistan in 1990, and remained so till his retirement from service in 1994; he was later appointed as UN SRSG to Rwanda (1994–1996). Since August 1999, he has intermittently served as the chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board. He is the current president of Asian Cricket Council.
Nawabzada Shaharyar Muhammed Khan is descended from the royal family of former princely state of Bhopal where his ancestors, who belonged to the old Orakzai Pashtun tribe of Tirah, now Pakistan, had emigrated to during first quarter of the eighteenth century. He was born in the Qasr-e-Sultani, Bhopal State (honoured with 19-gun salute until 1947) in British India. He is the only son and male heir of both Nawab Muhammad Sarwar Ali Khan, the ruler of former princely state of Kurwai and princess Abida Sultan (Suraya Jah, and Nawab Gauhar-i-Taj) Begum Sahiba, herself the Crown Princess and the eldest daughter of last ruling Nawab of Bhopal, Haji-Hafiz Sir Muhammad Nawab Hamidullah Khan, who reigned state of Bhopal after a prolonged era of Begums regime (the queens). His aunt Sajida Sultan became the Begum of Bhopal after her mother migrated to Pakistan, and she was married to cricketer Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, the 8th Nawab of Pataudi. He has four children, the eldest being Faiz Mohammad Khan, father of Aalia Sultan Khan. He is the first cousin of the Nawab Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who died on 22 September 2011. His nephew and niece Saif Ali Khan and Soha Ali Khan are film actors, the former of whom is married to actress Kareena Kapoor.
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