Alamgir Khan ur, is a Pakistani activist and politician who had been a member of the

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...

from October 2018 till January 2023. Khan belongs to the Mahsud tribe of South Waziristan currently living in Karachi, Pakistan. On 18 December 2021, Khan was injured at a blast at a private bank branch in the Sher Shah area of

Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former cap ...

Activism

He is the founder of his own organization named as Fixit. While pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree from

Iqra University Iqra University, ( ur, ) is a Private University primarily with its main campus located in Defence Area of Karachi, Pakistan. It has additional campuses in other parts of the city, in Islamabad and Quetta. Iqra University was ranked as the num ...

, Khan started a campaign in January 2016 to spray-paint the portrait of then Chief Minister of Sindh

Qaim Ali Shah Syed Qaim Ali Shah Jillani ( sd, سيد قائم علي شاه جيلاني , ur, ) is a Pakistani politician who served as the elected Chief Minister of Sindh for three terms. His last two terms combined, a total of eight years, makes him t ...

alongside uncovered sewer holes and garbage dumps in various part of Karachi. The campaign, called ''

Fix It Fix or FIX may refer to: People with the name * Fix (surname) Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Fix'' (film), a feature film by Tao Ruspoli Music * ''Fix'' (album), 2015 album by Chris Lane * "Fix" (Blackstreet song), 1997 song by Black ...

'', achieved wide coverage. On 25 February 2016, he was arrested by the police after he attempted to empty the garbage bins outside the Sindh Chief Minister House in Karachi. The next day, he was released on bail. In March 2016, a city court in Karachi indicted him in a case of wrongful restraint. Khan was also briefly arrested after a clash between FixIt volunteers and

Pakistan People's Party The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, , ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third largest party in the National Assembly and second largest in the Senate of Pakistan. The party was founded i ...

(PPP) workers at Teen Talwar in June 2019.

Political career

In August 2018, Khan was allocated

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI; ur, , ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI is one of the thre ...

(PTI) ticket to contest the by-election from Constituency

NA-243 (Karachi East-II) NA-237 Karachi East-II () is a newly-created a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It mainly comprises the Gulshan-e-Iqbal Subdivision, and census charge 12 and 13 of Jamshed Quarters. It was created in the 2018 delimitation from ...

. He was elected to the

as a candidate of PTI from Constituency NA-243 (Karachi East-II) in by-election held on 14 October 2018.

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Living people Pakistani activists People from Karachi Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNAs Iqra University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Pakistan-MNA-stub

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