Gulzar Khan () (died 28 August 2017) was a Pakistani bureaucrat-turned-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 June 2013 to August 2017.

Political career

Khan as

bureaucrat A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can compose the administration of any organization of any size, although the term usually connotes someone within an institution of government. The term ''bureaucrat'' derives from "bureaucracy", ...

served as Deputy Commissioner of

Peshawar Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...

, Political Agent for South and North Waziristan and Commissioner for Afghan refugees. He also had been the home secretary for

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...

and Tribal Affairs Department and chairman of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Public Service Commission. Khan joined

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) before 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 ...

and was allocated the party ticket to contest the 2013 general election from Constituency NA-4 (Peshawar-IV). He was elected to the

as a candidate of PTI from Constituency NA-4 (Peshawar-IV) in 2013 general election. He received 55,134 votes and defeated Nasir Khan Musazai, 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 ...

(PML-N). In 2014, Khan was elected as a chairman of a group which consisted of 13 PTI's members of the National Assembly who opposed a PTI call to resign from the National Assembly during the

Azadi march Azadi march may refer to: * 2014 Azadi march * 2019 Azadi march * 2022 Azadi march * 2022 Azadi March-II The 2022 Azadi March II () was a protest march led by Imran Khan, former prime minister of Pakistan, from Lahore to Islamabad against the ...

. He had quit the PTI and stopped attending the party meetings afterwards. In 2014,

Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidenc ...

asked for disqualification of Khan from the membership of the National Assembly for violating party's discipline. However, his National Assembly membership was not revoked after Khan refused to quit his National Assembly seat. During his tenure as member of the National Assembly, he served as chairman of the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Education, Training and Standards in Higher Education. He died on 28 August 2017 after suffering from cardiac arrest in his native town, Masho Gogar in

Badaber Badaber (, ur, ), alternatively spelt Badhber is a village in Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is located approximately south of the city of Peshawar. Overview Badaber currently hosts a refugee camp and formerly was th ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Gulzar 20th-century births 2017 deaths Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf politicians Pakistani civil servants Politicians from Peshawar Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018 Year of birth missing