Ghalib Khan (; born 8 October 1964) is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions, in Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. He served as 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 June 2013 to May 2018.

Early life

He was born on 8 October 1964.

Political career

Khan ran for the seat of the

as an independent candidate from Constituency NA-41 (Tribal Area-VI) in the 2002 Pakistani general election, but was unsuccessful. He received 1,140 votes and lost the seat to

Abdul Maalik Wazir Abdul Maalik Wazir is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to 2013. Political career He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Constituency NA-41 (Tribal Area-VI) as an inde ...

. He ran for the seat of National Assembly from Constituency NA-41 (Tribal Area-VI) as an independent candidate in the

2008 Pakistani general election 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

, but was unsuccessful. He secured 7,921 votes and lost again to Abdul Maalik Wazir. He was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of

Pakistan Muslim League (N) The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) ( ur, , translit=Pākistān Muslim Līg (Nūn) PML(N) or PML-N) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Liberal conservatism, liberal conservative political party in Pakistan. Alongside the Pakistan Teh ...

from Constituency NA-41 (Tribal Area-VI) in the

2013 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on Saturday 11 May 2013 to elect the members of the 14th National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies. The three major parties were the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) led by Nawaz Sharif, t ...

. He received 8,022 votes and defeated an independent candidate,

Ali Wazir Muhammad Ali Wazir (Pashto/Urdu: ) is a Pakistani Pashtun politician who is the co-founder of a human rights movement, Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). He has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018. During his student ...

, by a narrow margin of 300 votes. Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as

Prime Minister of Pakistan The prime minister of Pakistan ( ur, , romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam , ) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and his chosen cabinet, despite the president of Paki ...

in August 2017, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Abbasi. He was appointed as the Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions. Upon the dissolution of the National Assembly on the expiration of its term on 31 May 2018, Khan ceased to hold the office as minister.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Ghaleb Living people Pakistan Muslim League (N) politicians Pashtun politicians Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018 People from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 1964 births